Guess people don't read the fine print on much of anything nowdays. It's been out from multiple sources since early yesterday that the terrorists legally purchased or had someone straw purchase the ARs from "Annie's Get Your Gun", in Corona, California.
http://www.anniesgetyourgun.com/
Most non-Californians are clueless (and a large portion of Californians) about this state's magazine laws. Any round capacity magazines, machine gun belts or other detachable ammo feeding devices are 100% legal to own, use or possess in California. You may not buy, sell, import, gift or otherwise acquire larger than 10 round capacity magazines in this state unless you are law enforcement or an FFL001/007 with a high capacity magazine permit. This (unenforceable) law went went into effect 01-01-2000. Many tens of thousands of California gun owners legally own greater than ten round capacity magazines that acquired before 2000. The cities of Sunnyvale and Los Angeles have illegally and unconstitutionally passed local ordinances forbidding the possession of greater than 10 round magazines, but as we all know, these ordinances are against Federal and California state laws. There have been ZERO larger than 10 round capacity magazines turned in to the LASD/LAPD in Los Angeles since this harrassmen... er, ordinance went into effect.
Removing or replacing the bullet button on those ARs takes about :60. If the rifles had evil features like an adjustable shoulder stock, flash hider or pistol grip, the terrorists then manufactured an illegal assault rifle as soon as they replaced the bullet button with a mag release or inserted a greater than 10 round magazine. Somehow, I don't think Jihadists bent on butchering innocents care about California's moronic firearms laws. One more example of how gun laws don't stop anything or anyone, the penalize law abiding gun owners, that's it.
Lt. Governor Newsom has a 2016 Ballot initiative that will eliminate Internet ammo sales, require a background check to buy ammo and multiple fees to the CADOJ. The braying Statist voters who infest this state will pass this next November and ammo availability will plummet here (WalMart, Big 5, hardware stores, etc. will all get out of the ammo business because of the hassle, paperwork and time wasted that will be needed to simply sell ammo) and ammo costs will double or triple with little to no competitive pressure to drive down pricing. Of course, Californians will flock to Lake Havasu, Phoenix, Las Vegas and the Oregon border to buy ammo once this passes.
As far as gun rights, California is a lost cause. There is no savior, no chance of out-populating or outvoting the brainwashed sheeple of this state. Our goal now is to put up as much fight and resistance as we can, occasionally smack down our enemies in court and hold off the Statists who will eventually disarm this state. Anything I can legally do to be a thorn in the side of the lawmakers in this state by helping to support inventive legal ways around the idiotic laws and ideas that they spew forth from Sacramento gives me great joy.
