I am assured by an Internet friend that he lives in Pelican Bay and owns a non-gimped AR-15. He says the practice is common there and that they owe their freedoms to a little noted Federal commerce law. The nearest gun shop, apparently, is just across the state border in Oregon. They can therefore purchase non-California-compliant firearms and own them legally. They still have to register them and obey and observe all other State and Federal firearms regulations. But in Pelican Bay you can own an AR without the bullet button and a 30-round PMAG... though he confesses it wouldn't be advisable to travel too far south with it and start flashing it around.

Is my friend correct, or am I being put on?

Full of shit, but it's not like they send people around to check. Yet.

There's your first hint. If it were legal he wouldn't care who knew. Sounds like your friend is a gun store commando.

He sounds like a politician.  Rules for thee but not for me.

Idiot.


Nothing more nothing less.    State law is pretty clear on a resident of the state going out of state to buy any firearm and importing it back into the state.   Making it an AR or banned configuration firearm is just extra derp.

What would he put as the address on the 4473?

444 I'm special lane?
I'm Special, CA

Sounds like the guy that told me that if you build an SBR out of an 80% lower, you don't need a tax stamp.

Maybe if you like prison butescks