They created a by-name roster.
Once people found out an AR-15 and AK-47 were verbotten, it took receiver manufacturers about 10 seconds to release the AR-16, -17, etc. and AK-48, which were totally exempt from the law as written.
Then the legislatholes came up with the "evil features" criteria.
Once someone came up with the "bullet button" for every magazine-fed weapon, sales skyrocketed hereabouts (which causes DiFi and her cronies to wail and gnash their teeth, and flavors my daily drink with a healthy dose of "fuckthemandthehorsetheyrodeinon").
A few years back, they banned .50 calibers in CA - or so I thought.
It turns out that they banned .50BMG rifles.
Which means I can't buy one of these:

unless I bought it in the oddball, though ballistically identical/superior Barrett .416.
But because they only banned shoulder-stocked rifles, a much better plan has come to light.
I can buy one of these

In .50BMG.
Exactly as God, and John Moses Browning - but I repeat myself - originally intended.
Semi-auto only, and I can only put 10-round belts into it, lest we run afoul of the high-capacity restrictions.
I'm figuring anything worth effing up should succumb to 10 rounds of .50BMG.
And there's no limit on how many 10-round belts you can have.

If you hear a thud, hopefully it will either be me at the range once I get my hands on one of these (they run about $9K), or else it'll be DiFi hitting the ground when she has a stroke (hear me, God) at the knowledge that another would-be ban is a paper tiger.
Fucktards lose again.

My long-term plan is to get four of them, and restore one of these
With the obligatory Get Off My Lawn! sign, of course.
