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rsnyder55
I have an AR receiver that is registered without a caliber and I was wondering if I need to put a bullet button magazine release on it if I am going to be using it as a 22LR only?

I noticed the 22LR AR replicas do not seem to have the bullet button mag releases.

Sorry if this is a dumb question.
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  • Laredo Lefty
    Not a dumb question at all.

    Thats right. The AW laws in Cal apply to "centerfire" rifles only. That means, under current law, AR platform rifles in .22LR can use a regular mag release.

    There is a law being proposed that would change the "bullet button" exemption for centerfire guns to some other method of loading, ie, requiring totally fixed magazines that would require top loading. That proposed law will be meeting a lot of resistance.
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  • rsnyder55
    I've been sending letters to everyone about that bill. Yee's district (and CA) has problems with drugs, crime, unemployment, illegal immigration, and who know's what else yet this is the only legislation he can come up with?
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  • Laredo Lefty
    Yee's bill was originally a farm bill as I understand it. He morphed it into a gun bill as a knee jerk reaction to the Colorado theater shootings. Its too bad Yee was not in the theater.
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  • dfletcher
    quote:Originally posted by rsnyder55
    I have an AR receiver that is registered without a caliber and I was wondering if I need to put a bullet button magazine release on it if I am going to be using it as a 22LR only?

    I noticed the 22LR AR replicas do not seem to have the bullet button mag releases.

    Sorry if this is a dumb question.


    There are no dumb questions when it comes to CA gun laws - only dumb CA gun laws. What can you say about a state that holds a Ruger Charger pistol and a Walther P22 as an "Assault Weapon"?[;)]

    Anyway, since your lower will be attached to a rimfire upper, or to be exact, since it won't be attached to a centerfire upper, a "bullet button" is not required. I went this route instead of the "dedicated upper" with a conversion kit. I bought a no name lower and attached a CMMG upper to it. Made a few changes to the upper so it would look exactly like a centerfire - added the gas tube, changed out the ejector port cover & brass deflector. Added a slip over FH so it would look like the old GAU (XM177) I dragged around in the Air Force. Shoots well too.
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  • gruntled
    I understand why the Ruger Charger & the Charter Arms Explorer pistols fall under the Assault weapons catagory but why the Walther P22?
    By understand does not mean I agree, just that I know that most pistols with a detachable magazine ahead of the trigger are verboten.
    The only exceptions I know of are Olympic target pistols.
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  • Hangfire
    quote:Originally posted by gruntled
    I understand why the Ruger Charger & the Charter Arms Explorer pistols fall under the Assault weapons catagory but why the Walther P22?
    By understand does not mean I agree, just that I know that most pistols with a detachable magazine ahead of the trigger are verboten.
    The only exceptions I know of are Olympic target pistols.


    I imagine it's the threaded barrel.. Bad here in Kali..

    I see they offer a California compliant model..At the bottom..

    http://tinyurl.com/7kuu95b
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  • Riomouse911
    I have 2 registered as "rifles" without caliber, one as a "pistol" without caliber that fall under the "bullet button" requirement. I am thinking of going the rimfire route with one of them myself.
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  • dfletcher
    quote:Originally posted by Hangfire
    quote:Originally posted by gruntled
    I understand why the Ruger Charger & the Charter Arms Explorer pistols fall under the Assault weapons catagory but why the Walther P22?
    By understand does not mean I agree, just that I know that most pistols with a detachable magazine ahead of the trigger are verboten.
    The only exceptions I know of are Olympic target pistols.


    I imagine it's the threaded barrel.. Bad here in Kali..

    I see they offer a California compliant model..At the bottom..

    http://tinyurl.com/7kuu95b


    Yep, that's it - a semi auto pistol with a detachable mag and a threaded barrel. IIRC much DOJ and lawyer time was spent figuring out that the thread protector was properly "permanently" attached to some of the first Walther pistols that made it into CA.
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