Tedra Cobb, a Democrat running for Congress in New York, was caught on camera last week telling a group of supporters that she wants to ban all “assault” weapons — but that she cannot say that publicly before the election. California lawmakers have no such qualms. The California legislature is eager to chip away at the Second Amendment until nothing is left.
Their problem is that they have tangled themselves and gun owners in a knot of bureaucracy that will only get worse as time goes on. California’s anti-gun regulations are now so convoluted that is difficult to even write about them. But here goes.
First, California set a deadline of midnight on June 30th for all California gun owners to register their bullet button semiautomatic rifles. Wait, what’s a bullet button?
OK, for those who live in America, a bullet button is a device that drastically slows down an AR-15 and takes the fun out of it. In America, an AR-15 and similar civilian rifles have a magazine quick-release which you tap with a finger. It pops the mag out, you pop a new one in and you’re back in the fight.
But the weird foreign nation known as “California,” which does not recognize its citizenry’s right to defend their own lives, banned magazine quick releases a few years ago.
In response, an intrepid inventor came up with the “bullet button,” which the courts ruled was an okay alternative to the quick release. The bullet button is a device that replaces the magazine quick release. You can fire one clip of ammunition with your semiautomatic rifle, but then you have to get out a special tool, put on your reading glasses, remove the bullet button, put in a new magazine, use the special tool to put the bullet button back in, take off your reading glasses and then go back to shooting.
Meanwhile, just pray that the illegal alien gang members didn’t shoot you 5,000 times with their unregistered Fast & Furious guns while you were messing around with your bullet button. We hear the bullet button is just tons of fun.
Incidentally, Muslim terrorists Sayeed Farook and his mail-order Pakistani jihadi bride Tashfeen Malik shot 35 people in 2015 in San Bernardino using rifles that did not have bullet buttons installed. Imagine how embarrassed they would have been, had they known they were in violation of California’s bullet button rule!
Where were we? Oh, right, California’s hot mess of gun-grabbing regulations.
As it turns out, California made the registration of no-fun-at-all bullet-button rifles so convoluted that there is a very real chance that deployed soldiers are now FELONS if they happened to be overseas when the registration deadline passed.
Unlike every other online registration process in the history of the world, California’s genius lawmakers required gun owners to take pictures of their guns and upload them to the state’s gun registry.
Deployed soldiers are not allowed to take their personal firearms on deployment with them. Therefore, they were unable to photograph their personal weapons in San Diego, since they were running around in the desert in Afghanistan.
Those pictures, by the way, are how the California Nazis — sorry, we meant to say California Department of Justice — are locating more gun owners who are in violation of the convoluted spiderweb of California gun regulations. Jeffrey Kirschenmann dutifully logged onto the state website and registered one of his rifles. But because it did not comply with one of the hundreds of minor regulations governing the ownership of semiautomatic rifles in the Republik of Kalifornia, the cops kicked in his front door, took all of his guns and ammunition and charged him with 12 felonies. And Californians are registering their guns because why?
The people of California also have the added bonus of knowing that the state’s illegal gun registry website is an incompetent pile of failure that rivals the Obamacare website in terms of uselessness. According to the NRA, when people are registering their guns, the site often reveals the personal information of other users, including their address, email address, driver’s license number, firearm serial numbers — you know, the type of information that all people are comfortable releasing to random strangers.
Here’s a little factoid that we hope a pro-gun organization with deep pockets will take a closer look at. Under the federal 1986 Firearm Owners’ Protection Act, it is illegal for the federal or state governments to maintain a registry that ties gun owners’ personal information to firearms they own. Gun registries are illegal – period. Hey, Jeff Sessions, would you get on that, please?
~ American Gun News
Leave it to Commiefornia to try to take away your rights ! Hell they think they are in NAZI Germany in the 1930’s And they can do just whatever they want because they are Democrats and everyone knows they know just what everyone in the country realy wants RIGHT?The people of california need to stand together and vote these Morons out of office and vote people in who know they work for you in Government ! God Bless America !
And the “elected officials” of the “fine” state of kawlifornicate are not protecting themselves with weapons?? Just another lie being force fed down the throats of the citizenry. frankenstein admitted to carrying a revolver for her own protection – her pants go on differently than mine ???????? she breathes different air than I do ???????????? she walks on water ?????????? How about mad max ??? I bet that hammerhead has a weapon for personal protection — OH MY just that thought ….. pukelosi ??? she has a weapon for personal protection ???? ANOTHER bad thought !!!!!! Sorry fight fans, those asshats are running rampant with very strange thoughts and need to be unelected …….
Its simple, don’t register your firearms and when they come to take them shoot them. After a few hunder incidents of cops getting shot they will reconsider the danger they have put them in and change the law or be the site in the Country where the civil war begins.
They would never reconsider life means nothing to them. Just look at the “rights” they feel we should have and the rights we do have they feel they can void and ignore.
Based on what they have spouted it is clear that most of the politicians behind this would like nothing more than summery execution of every legal gun owner.
In fact they would use the “resistance” to their unconstitutional actions as an excuse to demand MILITARY intervention from the UN to help them enforce what is basically the UN DICTATE they have tried unsuccessfully to get our congress to impose in this nation commonly called the UN small arms treaty.
Which by the way calls for exactly this kind of registration.
Failing to get the treaty that is clearly an attempt to abolish the bill of rights imposed they have started imposing it peace-meal at the state or city level as “common sense” gun laws.
That fact is there is no common sense to them common sense would be looking at FAILED attempted attacks stopped by law abiding citizens then pointing to the ones where they were NOT ALLOWED to be armed that succeeded and demand the places the attack succeeded be made like the ones where the attack failed not the other way around as they demand.
Please don’t exaggerate your description of the bullet button; it doesn’t help the cause.
A bullet button doesn’t have to be removed before reloading, so it doesn’t need to be reinstalled, it doesn’t require a “special” tool, you don’t need to put on your reading glasses because you don’t really need to see it to activate it and it isn’t really that slow.
Don’t get me wrong; bullet buttons suck as do all of California’s “assault weapon” laws, but your extreme exaggerations just blows holes in your credibility.
post the phone number of the registry so people from out of state can call and tie up the phone lines and really mess them up
This article was written by someone who has no clue what he is talking about. Well maybe some, but the article is full of errors. For one, you load cartridges into a magazine, not a “clip.” Second, the Bullet button, as Kent noted, does not have to be disassembled. And it does not require a special tool–unless you consider the tip of a bullet (hence the name bullet button) to be a “special tool.” A bullet button mag release is operated by depressing the center stem of the release with the tip of a bullet, while the outside of the release is fixed, meaning that it cannot be depressed with a finger tip. It is only slightly slower than a regular mag release. What REALLY slows down the fun is that most of us are limited to 10 round mags.
The true part of the article is that the registration was indeed a hot mess. Registration–unlike the registration of real assault weapons back in 2000 which required only a postcard, the current system could only be accessed and registration could only occur if one had access to a camera and a computer. The photo requirement was byzantine, and moreover, did not allow you to just register the lower–the actual firearm–but only complete weapons. So if you had a bunch of uppers and only one lower, you had to register each configuration separately (or at least that is what everyone understood). This system required a whole new computer sstem, a new program, and a whole slew of new employees to process applications–and they are still months behind in processing the applications of those who were able to access the system when it wasn’t down (crashed).
What the article ignores is that many of us opted out of registering all together by reconfiguring our rifles with a fixed stock, a modified grip that was not a pistol grip (or combination stocks like the Hera or Thorsden that killed two birds with one stone), and replacing any “flash suppressor” with a thread protector or muzzle brake. As thus configured, the rifle is not an “assault weapon,” and not only is exempt from registration, it cannot be registered.
If you are familiar with the movie “Hancock” you know where the legislators in the People’s Republic have their heads. Hancock did it on at least two occasions. I’d hate to these people write a law about zippers on trousers. reCAPTCHA my butt.