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The hell????
I have a Modern Outiftters AR, with a 14.5 barrel brought to 16.1 by pinning/welding the flash hider. The OAL is 31 inches.
It has a muzzle brake, a KAG grip (not a pistol grip per the definition) and a collapsible stock.
If I somehow fix the stock in a certain position, does it make it legal to bring to California?
Asking as my wife is on a good track to get a job in Cupertino, and I would hate to leave my AR in Indiana...
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There is an updated "flowchart" down the forum some. What it is missing is the listings from a couple of earlier legal go-arounds. There are some firearms which were listed specifically in some of the first attempts to ban assault weapons and these can't be imported even if converted to featureless or with a compliant mag lock system.
Those lists can be found here: http://www.calguns.net/caawid/flowchart.html
The hell????
I have a Modern Outiftters AR, with a 14.5 barrel brought to 16.1 by pinning/welding the flash hider. The OAL is 31 inches.
It has a muzzle brake, a KAG grip (not a pistol grip per the definition) and a collapsible stock.
If I somehow fix the stock in a certain position, does it make it legal to bring to California?
Asking as my wife is on a good track to get a job in Cupertino, and I would hate to leave my AR in Indiana...
You have two ways to import it now. One is as a "featureless" rifle, the other as a rifle with a “fixed magazine” under California law meaning “an ammunition feeding device contained in, or permanently attached to, a firearm in such a manner that the device cannot be removed without disassembly of the firearm action.” That's going to determine if those features are or aren't a problem. Note that either approach still requires compliance with barrel length, overall length, 10 round magazine capacity laws.
A featureless rifle can not have (any of the following) a pistol grip, forward pistol grip, flash suppressor, folding or telescoping stock, thumb hole stock, grenade or flare launcher. I think there are potential problems here with the KAG grip. While it may not be intended as a forward pistol grip, there is little to keep one from grabbing it that way. You've described your muzzle brake as a pinned/welded flash hider. That's a possible problem. The California definition of a flash suppressor is convoluted, inadequate, probably insufficiently detailed as to be enforceable in some ways (and may actually have been litigated in a way that suggests it can't be enforced). That said, without knowing what device it actually is, how it looks, what it does, what it may have been designed or advertised as, we can't guess as to it's suitability on a featureless rifle. For many of us, going featureless is an easy approach. Fixed stock long enough to meet overall length, delete pistol grips (which can be done with a finned grip) go with a for sure muzzle brake (there are some) or other legal muzzle device or thread protector. An alternative is replacing the pistol grip and stock with a compliant replacement stock a la Hera or Thordsen. Doing this, you can use a standard mag release.
OTOH, a fixed magazine using one of several devices which are used by opening "disassembling" the action to then remove/replace the magazine, can have those features. Going this way, you add one of several sorts of internal locking devices which are accessed by opening action, typically pulling the rear pin, to release the mags. There is also at least one feeding device which works like a stripper clip and feeds through the ejection port.