by Bob Walsh
Xavier
Becerra, about to be the former Attorney General of the formerly great
state of California, has admitted that the registration website for
assault weapons in CA is so fucked up that it is useless. He has
notified all counties in CA to put a hold on investigations and
prosecutions under the law and is handing over a modest shitpile of
money ( $151,999) to the plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit against it
for legal fees. The settlement also requires that, if the program
gets running again, that the CA DOJ provide hard copy registration
options rather than on-line only.
The
original beef goes back to 2016, when some previously not-assault
weapons were reclassified as assault weapons because of what is called
"bullet buttons." When the law was changed to require that a tool
needed to be used to remove the magazine from a horrible and evil
"assault weapon" some bright guy figured out that a loaded cartridge
could be considered as tool and the mag release button was altered so it
could be operated by pushing the button in with a standard .223 caliber
cartridge. That offended the gun banners and they reacted.
The
law made zero exceptions for technical issues with the badly set up and
incompetently run web site, creating felons out of people who were
genuinely attemting to comply with the law but unable to do so. The
case eventually ended up in federal court.
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