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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1349138" data-attributes="member: 14668">Because a lot of people who are ignorant of guns will be ok with a rifle that has a wooden stock and looks &quot;traditional&quot; but if you take the same rifle and drop it into a stock made of black plastic and add a couple of &quot;tactical&quot; cosmetic features to it then it becomes an &quot;assault weapon&quot;. It has also become commonplace to refer to all military-styled weapons as &quot;black guns&quot;. My Ruger Mini-30 is a perfect example, it is a magazine-fed semi-automatic rifle and in its current configuration (normal wooden stock) it would be legal to own in California as long as it only had a 10 round magazine. The stock is removeable with a couple of bolts and if I dropped it into a black polymer &quot;tactical&quot; stock with a pistol grip....or put a flash suppressor on the end of the barrel...under California law it would automatically go from being legal to being classified as a prohibited &quot;assault weapon&quot; based on cosmetic features alone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1349138, member: 14668"] Because a lot of people who are ignorant of guns will be ok with a rifle that has a wooden stock and looks "traditional" but if you take the [I]same[/I] rifle and drop it into a stock made of black plastic and add a couple of "tactical" cosmetic features to it then it becomes an "assault weapon". It has also become commonplace to refer to all military-styled weapons as "black guns". My Ruger Mini-30 is a perfect example, it is a magazine-fed semi-automatic rifle and in its current configuration (normal wooden stock) it would be legal to own in California as long as it only had a 10 round magazine. The stock is removeable with a couple of bolts and if I dropped it into a black polymer "tactical" stock with a pistol grip....or put a flash suppressor on the end of the barrel...under California law it would automatically go from being legal to being classified as a prohibited "assault weapon" based on cosmetic features alone. [/QUOTE]

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