True, it looks like you get to keep the rifle itself (gee thanks) --- PROVIDED you're willing to register it (i.e. sign it over to The State).
Feeding it, however, may be a problem...
Source: [url]http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_50_bill_20030410_amended_asm.html[/url]
NOTE: This bill has been through at least a few revisions, per the norm, but it LOOKS like this is the one on which they voted. Anyone who knows differently, please feel free to correct.
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SEC. 3. Section 12020 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
12020. (a) Any person in this state who does any of the following is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or in the state prison:
(1) Manufactures or causes to be manufactured, imports into the state, keeps for sale, or offers or exposes for sale, or who gives, lends, [b]or possesses[/b] any cane gun or wallet gun, any undetectable firearm, any firearm which is not immediately recognizable as a firearm, any camouflaging firearm container, any ammunition which contains or consists of any flechette dart, any bullet containing or carrying an explosive agent, [b]any .50 BMG cartridge[/b], any ballistic knife, any multiburst trigger activator, any nunchaku, any short-barreled shotgun, any short-barreled rifle, any metal knuckles, any belt buckle knife, any leaded cane, any zip gun, any shuriken, any unconventional pistol, any lipstick case knife, any cane sword, any shobi-zue, any air gauge knife, any writing pen knife, any metal military practice handgrenade or metal replica handgrenade, or any instrument or weapon of the kind commonly known as a blackjack, slungshot, billy, sandclub, sap, or sandbag.
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cynic