I’ve never owned an AR, but would like to get one. I did carry an M16 back in the 60’s, early 70’s. I’m in CA so we’re also pretty restricted as to what we can have here.
The tool on mine is a bullet button. There is even some argument that you have to load the gun from the top rather than removing the Magazine to be legal. CA is nuts...
I sold my AK-47 to an out of State buyer, the only way you can sell a registered “Assault Weapon” in CA. Sold it for two reasons, needed the money and I wanted to be taken off the State Assault Weapon Owner Data Base. Just a little too much Big Brother for my taste.
I advise you to get the CA Legal AR, or any firearm for that matter, before Moonbeam and his cronies outlaw them as well. Isn't it wonderful living in a Police State that has no regard for the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence?
The new Bushmaster ACR is insane. Folding stock, toll kit in the handle, free siderail on the front of it, instead of gas blowback its a piston. All you have to do is just shoot that bad boy. Heck of an urban weapon.