Posted on 10/22/2013 11:33:12 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
NO, target shooting won’t be OK, unless it’s on an ‘approved’ target range.
I’m just glad I don’t own any of those platform rifles,
all mine have regular stocks.
Post Number 49.
“Opponents of AB711 argued that non-lead ammunition is more expensive and faces federal restrictions because it is technically considered to be armor-piercing. The California Fish and Game Wardens’ Association last week urged Brown to veto the bill, saying there is insufficient data to justify a statewide ban.
A statement issued Friday by the National Shooting Sports Foundation said the new law will amount to a virtual ban on hunting in California. The group says the supply of non-lead ammunition is limited because manufacturers must receive a federal waiver to sell those bullets.”
http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/Correction-Lead-Ammo-Ban-story-4888646.php
The 7.62x39 is what the Ruger mini-30 is chambered for, is is not? But the Ruger is ok, it is not an AK.
Mr. Beagle,
First, I am against all 2A infringements! And I realize that all these regs and laws are only for taking our arms, not for any public or environmental safety, meanwhile ...
I am living in the middle of this (in CA). When you live in this HELL for a while, I will appreciate your comments, but not yet.
AB 711 requires the use of nonlead ammunition for the taking of all wildlife with a firearm.
Unless my target is a non-domesticated animal species, or or perhaps a fungi and other organisms which grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans, I should be good to go.
Nothing about an approved range.
Bye and bye, with regulation and interpretation, things may expand to approved ranges, but not in AB 711.
This bill would ... require, as soon as is practicable, but by no later than July 1, 2019, the use of nonlead ammunition for the taking of all wildlife, including game mammals, game birds, nongame birds, and nongame mammals, with any firearm. The bill would require the commission to certify, by regulation, nonlead ammunition for these purposes.
PS. Is self-defense a ‘nongame mammal’, maybe (depends on defn of ‘taking’, or if that mammal is edible)?
In that some estimates are that about 100,000,000 AK-47 platform weapons have been produced by the Soviet Union alone, and that the vast majority of them have never been used in war or crime...
Americans typically buy more AK-47 platform rifles than does either the Russian Army and police combined. Yet of this vast number of rifles in the US, the number involved in criminal activity in the US barely registers.
So indeed, the AK-47 conforms to the idea that they are, “weapons typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes such as hunting or self-defense.”
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