Do I Still Need A Bullet Button If Registered

California Set on Weapon Owners Face Registration Borderline

The registration period is for those who legally bought so-called bullet-button assault weapons

California gun owners starting Thursday are getting a second chance to register and keep a blazon of firearm that is now illegal to purchase under the country's expanded definition of assault weapons.

The registration flow is for those who legally bought then-called bullet-button assault weapons.

The bullet buttons let users to rapidly commutation ammunition magazines past using a small tool or the tip of a bullet.

California lawmakers outlawed weapons with that feature in 2016. Only those who bought them earlier the law took effect on Jan. i, 2017, are even so immune to ain them if they register the weapons with the country.

It'southward the 2d fourth dimension the state has opened a registration window, after critics said it botched the beginning endeavor in 2018. Gun owners said California's online registration arrangement crashed or timed out as they tried repeatedly to register their weapons using different web browsers, hardware and multiple devices.

The country attorney general's office settled a resulting lawsuit in March past like-minded to reopen the registration window and non concur any owners liable for missing the July ane, 2018, registration deadline.

An chaser for the gunowners, George G. Lee, estimated at the fourth dimension that the practice-over will apply to "perchance tens of thousands of gun owners."

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The new registration window will run from 9 a.yard. Th until ix a.m. April 12.

Owners will have to assert under penalty of perjury that they tried to register their weapon before the original 2018 registration deadline simply could not considering of technical difficulties.