6/1/2023 0 Comments Ct are muzzle break allowed![]() They were generally legal to sell in the state. Not long after, gun manufacturers simply began selling Californians firearms very similar to the ones on the prohibited list. People could register and legally own them. There was a major caveat: Assault weapons bought before the law was passed were grandfathered in. ![]() ![]() The original 1989 legislation identified as assault weapons a list of gun makes and models, which then - with some narrow exceptions - could not be purchased anywhere in the state. The gunman, a 24-year-old with an extensive criminal record, used a variant of the AK-47, a semiautomatic rifle first used by the Soviet military. The tension traces back to January 1989, when a gunman walked into a Stockton schoolyard and fired more than 100 rounds in a span of three minutes, killing five children and injuring 29 others. ![]() As things stand today, the future of the ban is uncertain. The ban is so divisive, in part, because the types of firearms it seeks to keep out of the hands of Californians (like the Colt AR-15) are popular among gun enthusiasts, while also being weapons of choice, time and time again, in some of the most high-profile mass shootings in the country. Legislators struggled to implement the ban in a meaningful way for years, modifying it repeatedly, long before a federal judge overturned it this summer. The history of California’s assault weapons ban is also the story of a cat-and-mouse game between Sacramento and gun makers and owners.
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