Posted December 21, 2016 10:27 am by Comments

By Chris Enloe

Gun sales in California have skyrocketed during the second half of 2016 after California Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, signed into law earlier this year a sweeping new set of gun control laws that are set to take effect Jan. 1.

Brown signed into law six measures, including one that requires California citizens to allow the government to confiscate their “high capacity” magazines, a law that requires a background check for ammunition sales, in addition to a “bullet button law.”

So-called bullet buttons are devices on semi-automatic rifles that allow a user to easily eject and insert a new magazine. You will still be able to own rifles that have a bullet button in California, but you’ll no longer be able to purchase a firearm that has one, according to the Los Angeles Times.

However, citizens who own firearms with the “bullet button” will have one year to register the gun with the state of California as an “assault weapon.”

Now, citizens who buy semi-automatic rifles will have to use a special tool to remove their magazines.

The new guns laws have led to a run on firearms in California. Since the new gun control measures were signed into law on July 1, …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze

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