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mnottertail -> RE: Nobody wants to take your guns. (10/27/2015 1:23:37 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BamaD
There is no pretense, they were illegal when they bought them.
No they reinterpreted the law and made them retroactivly illegal, the state said they were legal when they bought them, then changed their minds.
1) The 1989 CA AWB (Roberti-Roos) bans SKSs with detachable mags, but not SKS with fixed mags.
2) People who already owned detachable mag SKSs registered them.
3) The attorney general, Dan Lungren, says he believes an SKS with a detachable mag does not qualify as an assault weapon under the AWB if it were originally manufactured as a fixed mag SKS.
4)In light of (3), people start buying fixed-mag SKSs and modifying them to detachable, or buying pre-modified (originally fixed, now detachable) SKSs. These rifles, if they really were legal, wouldn't have needed to be registered, since there was no registry for non-AWB long guns.
5)Lungren says he was wrong, these SKSs are not actually exempt from the AWB.
6) The state offers a buyback ($230) for people who bought these illegal guns, believing them to be legal based on Lungren's (now reversed) statements.
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The people who had SKSs with detachable mags before the 1989 Roberti-Roos AWB and registered them never had their guns confiscated or bought back. Those people can, to this day, still legally own those guns. What the buyback was for was illegal guns that were never legal, but which people plausibly thought were legal due to the attorney general's statements.
$230 was a lot of money for those guns in 1999 they are high retail $579 now. They paid somewhere between $88 and $128 for the guns, and were paid for their troubles.
And again, a lie, not retroactively illegal, just a mistake by a republican attorney general in a republican administration.
Unless you are thinking that the nutsuckers are conspiring to take our guns away, and Texas.
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