Gun-Grabbers are backpedaling:
The senator introduced the bill after seeing a CBS 5 report that showed people at the range firing semi-automatic rifles, even though California has a strict assault weapons ban.
“The reason why I am committed to this particular bill is because of what I saw on your TV station, the story that you did,” Yee told CBS 5.
We discovered it all came down to a tiny device called a bullet button. It allows one to quickly detach a magazine, even though under California law detachable magazines in combination with other features are illegal.
But under California regulations, the bullet button makes a gun’s magazine “fixed” and therefore legal, because one needs a tool, such as the tip of a bullet, to detach it.
Yee’s bill originally sought to ban the bullet button. But he recently amended the bill to ban only conversion kits such as the “mag magnet,” a hot seller at gun shows, that makes a bullet button even easier to use.
CBS 5 asked Yee: “The bill doesn’t address the bullet part, just the magnet. Why the change?”
The senator answered: “Given all the opposition we have had thus far, I think that this probably would be a way that we can craft a bill that would pass muster.”
Of course at its core the anti-freedom people see this as a “loophole”, but in reality its compliance with the law. Just like when gun companies during the AWB started producing “Ban Compliant” guns, the antis were up-in-arms. Well because they just want to ban all guns, not restrict magazines or bayonet lugs.
Still if bans on the bullet button can’t gain traction in California (that passed their own bullshit variation of the AWB in the first place) what ground do the antis have left?
Glad to read this!
Should Yee’s bill not pass, I am sure that the shooters of California just noticed him tacitly admitting that the magnetic bullet button tool is presently legal.
It’s all about control. Too many in this world just can’t stand it when people refuse to conform to their wishes. Gun owners in California keep getting saddled with rule after rule, but they still want to own guns. Until those gun owners become passive people who will do as they’re told, the control freaks will never be happy. Thank goodness, gun owners and Americans in general will never conform.
Well, too late for me since my scathing rebuttal letter is already in the mail.
Senator Leland Yee, PhD deserves to be dressed down for his hysterical bill.
I think Yee has back-pedaled from real “action,” and is now just testing the waters. If he can get the “mag magnet” banned, he can try again for the “bullet button” later.
Ridiculous that in their fervor to ban anything that shoots, they see the text of the law (which specifically says the magazine must require a tool for removal, and a tool can consist of a spare bullet) as a “loophole.” Equally ridiculous is that this whole thing started when he saw “scary guns” in a spot on a news program.
I’m pretty sure that since the goal is a complete ban that they consider any situation where it’s still legal to own any guns at all a loophole regardless of how accurately the term is used.
I actually think this is proper use of the word “loophole”. By definition, “loopholes” are “compliant with the law”- but not with the intent of the law. I believe the California legislators who drafted the various stages of AWBs in CA had every intension of making it so that no one can legally buy ARs, AKs, etc. I have used this as an example of where the word “loophole” is appropriate in the past, in an effort to point out how the “gun show loophole” is absolutely not a loophole. Now all this doesn’t mean they are right- but rather the Bullet Button is a shining example of how stupid “assault weapon” bans are, and how there will always be a “loopholes” allowing people to own ARs until they proceed with the total ban on all semi-automatic actions. They can’t get it through their head that there is nothing special about these guns- or they are one of the people who are in the know and use this purely as a manipulation tactic (I am looking at Josh Sugarmann).
There are a couple of other points I want to make on this:
Yee dropped the Bullet Button from the legislation because they changed their tactic to appeal directly to the CA DOJ to get them to change the ruling that they are legal to use. Why bother with laws that the people can fight, when you can use the regulatory process to make hundreds of thousands of new felons overnight?
The Mag Magnet is already illegal to use (in the way they are thinking). This legislation bans possession of it, regardless of whether you own a bullet button AR, or any gun at all. If this legislation passes, and you are caught with this little magnet thingy, you go to jail- no grandfather clause. If you put this Mag Magnet on the typical Bullet Button AR, you are committing a felony (It is now officially an “assault weapon” in the state of California). But there are still ways to legally own and use it. You could remove the evil features from your AR, and then apply the magnet. Or you could simply pop it on your gun when you cross the NV border into free America (which is they way it is marketed).