What in the everloving blue Hades is a “bullet button” loophole? Seriously?
SECTION 1.
It is the intent of the Legislature to effectuate the intent of the Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control Act of 1989 and to close the bullet button loophole by redefining “detachable magazine,” as used in Section 30515 of the Penal Code, to include an ammunition feeding device that can be readily removed from the firearm with the use of a tool.
The odious trolls in the California legislature have really outdone themselves on this one. With zero knowledge about firearms and zero comprehension of Constitutional rights, they are on a rampage to destroy the right to keep arms in that statist hole of a state.
(h/t Ammoland)
That’s the “Holy shit; tools are more than that stuff my mechanic uses?” loophole. They went into panic mode when they realized the San Bernardino assholes used California-legal ARs. (Earlier reports said the assholes “attempted to modify” them, but never came out and said they succeeded, and then it dropped out of the narrative.)
$15/hour minimum wage, sanctuary cities, Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer, this…
It’salmost enough to make sane people on this side of the San Andreas wish for the Big One.
When my daughter was learning how to drive, she called the car horn “the honk button.” Maybe they’re trying to do the same thing?
In common parlance, anything done to get around the intent of a law is a loophole.
Since the intent of the old law was to get rid of detachable mags, guess what? Any way to have one anyway is exploiting a loophole.
Now, with that cleared up, we can ask, What the everloving fuck could justify an attempt to get rid of detachable mags?
One more time: It’s not a loophole.
The California-legal “bullet button” was invented as a work-around for the prohibition on detachable magazines. It’s a modified magazine-release mechanism designed to be actuated by inserting the tip of a 5.56mm/.223 bullet; in fact, the text of the law says that a spare ammunition cartridge counts as a “tool” for the purposes of the law.
A “loophole” is an attempt to evade a law. What, then, do you call “following the text of the law to the letter to get our desired result”, as the “bullet button” does?
I don’t know about Kalifornistan legislators, but I call that, “Compliance”.
So if any magazine that can be removed with a “tool” is now considered “detachable” for the purposes of the AWB, that means that EVERY semi-auto rifle could be an “assault weapon”, since ANY magazine can be removed with the right tools. And I believe the Kalifornistan legislators understand at least that much about firearms.
Just sayin’.
“Aha,” he said. “A loophole is freedom.”
A very, very good point…
..which the People’s Pacifistic Republic Of California makes on a regular basis.
reminds me of the lady on the airplane putting on lipstick. ” You’re pushing my buttons Roger!”.