Introducing the Hammerhead - AR-15 CA-Legal Stock Adapter

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Forgive my ignorance, but I thought that per California law one could not utilize a 10+ round magazine in a firearm not already in one's possession prior to the institution of the AWB. [something about creation of a new firearm capable to accepting feeding devices of greater capacity than 10 rounds] Or is it alright for 'featureless' rifles to use such devices (with 'featured' rifles utilizing a bullet-button not allowed to use 10+ round mags?).
 
CA Laws are complicated but there is a way to legally use large cap mags. It breaks down like this:

There are three ways to get an AR in CA:

1) Registered Assault Weapon - You had it before Y2000, registered it before Y2001. No new registrations so if you don't already have one of these you're not getting one. Can be configured as evilly as any free-state rifle, and will appear quite normal.

The next two ways apply only to receivers that are not on the "List" of evil brands/models, hence they are called Off-List Lowers or OLL:

2) Fixed Magazine - All the evil features, except you have a 10 round mag limit (for appearance you can use a 30 rounder blocked internally for 10 rounds), magazine can only be removed through the use of a tool, law says a bullet is a tool, hence the various "Bullet Buttons" that have been invented and marketed, each design more ingenious than the last. Despite being limited to 10 round mags these also can look exactly like a free state rifle.

3) Featureless - no evil features, not even the pistol grip, but you get to use legally-owned large capacity mags and drop them with your finger. There are four products on the market right now to address the pistol grip issue, the latest is the Exile Machine Hammerhead Stock Adapter / Grip. These rifles while they can shoot large cap mags currently look somewhat different from a free state rifle, due to the pistol grip issue. Efforts are always underway to try to make these look as close as possible to a free state rifle but it's a challenge to get around the pistol grip. Some shooters are even using adjustable stocks that are riveted or pinned so they can't adjust.

Here's a really good site to interactively help you determine if your evil rifle is legal in CA: http://calnra.com/cgi-bin/flowchart.cgi

Exile Machine is working on a half dozen additional CA-compliance products. We're targeting Featureless right now because there's room there for growth, and the ability to use 30-rounders is appealing to customers. Eventually we'll have products for both Fixed Mag and Featureless. Ultimately we hope the whole damn CA Assault Weapons laws get stricken from the books and we can get back to doing what we do best, manufacturing nylon curtain rods.:D
 
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Thanks Lowracer. I have to say that, even living in Michigan, the Hammerhead looks interesting and a device I would try out of ergenomics, as the demo-photos provided near the OP make it look very comfortable to use, aside from being able to go 'nyah!' at the PRoC.

Still can't buy and sell the high-cap mags though, right?
 
We do sell Hammerhead into the other states as well. Haven't researched the laws in MI but if you think it's legal there and want to order, give us a call. We have some factory 2nds at a discount and I always have something out on gunbroker for a steal.

CA's magazine laws are messed up. Basically it's legal to buy them, legal to find them, illegal to sell transfer give away or lend them though. Illegal to import, legal to possess no matter how you acquired them, but get this, if you're the proprietor of an Armored Car company, you can buy and sell all you like to anyone you like (I always wonder why there aren't more armored car companies in CA established for this purpose --they'd clean up). It's legal to repair magazines you legally owned before the cut-off in 2000. You can replace every part on an old mag with a brand new part from a "rebuild kit" that you bought (it's just a disassembled mag), as long as you don't end up with more mags than you started with. Finally there's a 3-year statute of limitations on manufacturing or import and the state has to prove you manufactured it which is next to impossible since there are no requirements to keep receipts, etc.

When I lived in CA I kept a bunch of 30-round Magpul PMAGs disassembled in case of apocalypse or Obama gun ban. Quite legal to buy as many kits as you want and keep them disassembled even if you didn't have any before the ban. I used to go shooting in AZ and I'd take the kits there and assemble them and then break 'em down before returning. Craziness...
 
Geez...you know, if [your-deity-here forbid] McDonald looses to Chicago, I think I may have found my calling in life. (lol). Move to Cali and set-up an Armored-Car service...
 
So lets say someone is stationed in Florida and gets relocated to California *gasp*. Said person has an AR-15 that was purchased in Florida. Would that person be bent over backwards and screwed when he/she moves to California?
 
no pistol grip on AR rifles in CA thats dumb what does the grip have to do with anything? all it does is to make you hold it easyer. :scrutiny:

and the mags you cant have them built but in parts. CRAZY
 
So lets say someone is stationed in Florida and gets relocated to California *gasp*. Said person has an AR-15 that was purchased in Florida. Would that person be bent over backwards and screwed when he/she moves to California?
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Depends on several factors, brand and model number of the lower receiver being one. Follow the interactive flowchart and see what you come up with, legal or no. Most ARs can be made legal by using the bullet button or going featureless. Use this site to help you determine if your evil black rifle is legal in CA: http://calnra.com/cgi-bin/flowchart.cgi .

There are also some other conditions with being active military that are worth checking into but I'm not too familiar with them. Search calguns.net to see if you can dig that up. If you're really relocating to CA you'll want to sign up with calguns.net anyway. Do it well before you move. When I moved to CA I got rid of all my large capacity mags. Had I researched it on calguns beforehand I would have known to just disassemble them and I'd still have them today.
 
We are building up a dealer network within CA. Our first dealer is Parallax Tactical in San Diego. If you're in the area stop in and see a Hammerhead in person.

More dealers coming soon.

We're also expanding into the northeastern states with Assault Weapons Bans, vestiges of the 1994 crime bill that refuse to die. In these states they are generally allowed to have 1 feature from the list of evil features. The Hammerhead allows them to pick a different evil feature than the pistol grip. Little bit trickier there since none of these states define the term "pistol grip."
 
Well....

Since you CAN still get the same (good) check weld on the tube, the question becomes is it an advantage, disadvantage, or a wash to have the stock hitting your shoulder down lower rather than up higher. On a .50 beowulf and some of these new high-powered AR cartridges being designed, I can sure see the merit in having the top of the stock down below your clavicle, below the upper humerous,, instead more resting on the meat of your outer pectoral muscle. Actually kind of like it.

But the lack of a P-grip is obviously a disadvantage.
 
I need to send Calguns some money.
I think the bullet button solved this problem for most of us
 
Thanks for the info lowracer, ain't moving across the coast yet but I appreciate it in case the situation is ever brought up!
 
Coming soon: a limited run professionally duracoated in FDE and Olive Drab, available Jan 6th...

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I'd rate this as an innovation as ingenious as the Spyderhole. It completely circumvents the stupidity of written law (in that case, evil switchblades that jump into their owners hands and cause them to go on a rampage. Granny never did that with her old Schrade button lock in the sewing kit.)

I'd like to reinforce the notion that it gives the shooter more options on stock placement and cheek weld. Being able to raise the height of the upper relative to the sight line means shorter bases almost flush with the rail. That will reduce parallax for short range shots! The offset most carbine shooters have to practice - the dreaded Oops I shot 2 inches low - will be gone.

The wonderful engineering of a straight line action does have it's disadvantages, too.
 
We've got our SSL certificate approved and should have ordering directly from our online store up and running this week.

Meanwhile there's a couple units out on Gunbroker that we're basically giving away, one black and one FDE.
 
I am sure some lawmaker in Cali is already working on a law that limits one hammerhead purchase per month - and then they will add it to the new ammo purchase law going into affect next February. You can buy the hammerhead face to face only and will need to be thumb printed and fill out some kind of paper work.

But I do love the inventiveness to get around those stupid laws!!!!
 
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