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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scottb42" data-source="post: 2099043" data-attributes="member: 27603">Full disclosure:  I'm a recent refugee from the People's Republic.  Been wanting to escape for years, finally my circumstances aligned and my workplace (same company that makes plastic airplanes with combustable batteries) offered me a sweet deal to make the move to the OKC area.The Bullet Button was invented as a way around KA's asinine "assault weapon" law.  Like the expired federal AWB, those enlightened folks in Sacramento designed their own ban not only by naming certain evil rifles and shotguns, but also by declaring it verboten if they included two or more heinous "features."  Flash hider, bayonet lug, detachable magazine, pistol grip, fixed magazine over 10 rds, etc.  Most AR/AK firearms could do away with everything except the detachable magazine and pistol grip, so the only AR-style rifles that existed after the ban were models with permanently fixed magazines that could only be reloaded by pulling the rear takedown pin and flipping open the upper receiver.  Very few people bothered to buy these crippled rifles.  Then somebody figured out that the legislation creating the CA AWB made an interesting distinction between "detachable" and "fixed" magazines.  Essentially, a magazine was considered "fixed" if it required a tool to free it from the rifle, and according to the law a bullet is considered a tool.  So this enterprising individual created a special magazine release button that fit into the exact same opening in the receiver but which had a spring-loaded button in the middle of it; this special magazine release would not drop the magazine unless some narrow tool like a bullet point first depressed the little spring-loaded button.  This little doo-dad completely revitalized AR sales in the state, I've seen estimates of between 100,000 and 1,000,000 sales since it has come into existence.Naturally the legislators don't like the fact that people are exploiting a loophole in their crappily written law, so over the past several years there have been a number of attempts to fix the "problem."  And it looks like they're trying again.So that's the simple version, the complete story is far too complicated to tell and I am in no way qualified to tell it anyway.  However if you want an illustrated depiction of how screwed up things are you ought to check out this handy-dandy "Assault Rifle" flow chart put together by the folks at calguns.net, which would of course be the CA version of OSA:  <a href="http://www.calguns.net/caawid/flowchart.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.calguns.net/caawid/flowchart.pdf</a>.  Make sure you check out the second page for a couple of pictures of other attempts to get around the "features" ban, both of them attempts to get around the "pistol grip" feature.  Lord those things are grotesque.There are plenty of other dubious firearms law in the state:  one handgun a month, 10 day waiting period, the "handgun safety certificate," 10 round magazines, ... the list goes on.  Gun owner hell.</blockquote>

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