Don’t get me wrong, California is a great place to visit. However, this is but one of the many reasons I don’t want to live there. Opportunists within the State’s legislature have used the recent tragic shooting in Aurora, Colorado as a reason to introduce legislation that would outlaw the so-called ‘bullet button.’ So what’s a Bullet Button you might ask? I can tell you that I didn’t know what one was until recently so I am going to simplify the issue for you.
Unfortunately, California’s gun laws are indescribably stupid and include a ban on removable magazines from ‘assault weapons.’ Fortunately, one of the side effects of poorly written legislation is the application of ingenuity. In this case, California gun enthusiasts have developed a device that conforms with California law yet allows them to use removable magazines in their ‘assault weapons.’ A pistol grip on a rifle makes it an ‘Assault Weapon’ in California. How silly is that? Because of that pistol grip, the law requires that a tool must be used to remove the magazine from the weapon. In the case of the Bullet Button a separate bullet is used explicitly as a tool to push a detent located in an AR’s mag catch. This in turn allows the removal of the magazine. Granted, there’s yet another way around this virtual magazine ban; the use of a ‘featureless’ gun. Somehow a ‘featureless’ gun isn’t threatening and you can use a standard magazine release. Sound stupid yet?
Apparently, somebody feels very threatened by the slow, unwieldy process of using a Bullet Button. Threatened enough that they have introduced SB249.
Support California firearms owners by helping them to stop this ridiculous legislation before it becomes law. Otherwise, I’m afraid the only alternative to stopping the spread of this mindset would be to nuke the whole state from orbit, just to be sure.
