California Assault Weapon Owners Face Registration Deadline

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January 12, 2022 astatine 2:23 pm

SACRAMENTO (AP) — California weapon owners starting Thursday are getting a 2nd accidental to registry and support a benignant of firearm that is present amerciable to bargain nether the state’s expanded explanation of battle weapons.

The registration play is for those who legally bought alleged bullet-button battle weapons.

The slug buttons let users to rapidly speech ammunition magazines by utilizing a tiny instrumentality oregon the extremity of a bullet.

California lawmakers outlawed weapons with that diagnostic successful 2016. But those who bought them earlier the instrumentality took effect connected Jan. 1, 2017, are inactive allowed to ain them, truthful agelong arsenic they registry the weapons with the state.

It’s the 2nd clip the authorities has opened a registration window, aft critics said it botched the archetypal effort successful 2018. Gunowners said the state’s online registration strategy crashed oregon timed retired arsenic they tried repeatedly to registry their weapons utilizing antithetic web browsers, hardware and aggregate devices.

The authorities lawyer general’s bureau settled a resulting suit successful March by agreeing to reopen the registration model and not clasp immoderate owners liable for missing the July 1, 2018, registration deadline.

An lawyer for the gunowners, George M. Lee, estimated astatine the clip that the do-over volition use to “possibly tens of thousands of weapon owners.”

The caller registration model volition tally from 9 a.m. Thursday until 9 a.m. April 12.

Owners volition person to asseverate nether punishment of perjury that they tried to registry their limb earlier the archetypal 2018 registration deadline but could not due to the fact that of method difficult.

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