Note: You'll haxe to confirm with CalDOJ.
But...
IIRC, one of the only exceptions to the drop-test-list extortion racket is for
single-action non-interchangeable-mag guns. Normally, this is taken to mean Cowboy-style revolvers, but one day a year+ back, my dealer was expounding about T/C Contenders, and how they were in fact
exempt from the drop-test crap by virtue of being in the same criteria as CAS revolvers, but DOJ was being close-mouthed about it the same way they were about private-party transfers being exempt from the one-a-month restrictiions. His point was, everyone quit selling T/C's in the PRK because they weren't on the approved list, when in fact they were exempt from the listing requirement.
Savage Strikers are a single-action non-magazine handgun. Could they, and T/C's as well, in fact actually be exempt from the listing requirement, and actually be legal to sell through a dealer in this stupid state?
I haven't looked into this for a couple of years, as I haven't been in a position to actually buy a gun for that long, financially, so it was a moot point.
Additionally, calls to CalDOJ for clarification on points like these at the time were likely to net conflicting results, depending on who you talked to that day, a VERY exasperating experience for a dealer.
This whole debacle came about as a result of a customer who had purchased a NAA mini-revolver that had arrived after the drop-test law had gone into effect. At first, my dealer and the customer thought the sale had to be voided, but subsequent research revealed the single-action revolver exception, which allowed the completion of the deal. The similarity of circumstances about the T/C Contender qualifying under the same exception was noted as an aside at the time, but it wasn't relevant to the transaction at hand.
However, my dealer noted that T/C's were legal to buy, but that no-one had bothered to realize/confirm this, and took 'em off the market un-neccessarily.
Hokay, this was
two years ago, and DOJ should have pulled their head out by now, and figured out what to tell an inquiring dealer. It merits further investigation, and putting the screws to DOJ to get an answer out of them. The idea that they can be un-cooperative on advising people about exceptions to the resrictions is galling, but unsurprising. However, reluctant to answer doesn't mean they won't answer, and this point merits clarification. I'd know by now myself if I'd been in a position to buy a T/C or a Striker, as I collect that type of gun specifically per my screen name.
That is, when I can afford to.
Asking is cheap, requiring only a phone call or three, and determination. This is a LOT different than asking about out-of-state ownership, something that gets an undoubted "NO" right from the get-go. Remember, this comes under the exemption for
non-changeable-magazine single-action firearms, normally construed to mean CAS-style revolvers,
but the law is not revolver-specific.
If you look into this, keep us posted. there's a lot of folks here in the PRK, and a few manufacturers too, for that matter, (NAA and T/C, for example, who no longer ship products to the PRK.) that could put this knowledge to good use.
