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An evil feature is a colloquial term for a feature that differentiates an “assault weapon” from a “sporting weapon”. If a rifle has a detachable magazine (a feature of essentially all modern rifles), it may not have any other evil features. 

 Here’s the list of evil features according to California:

- A pistol grip, described as, “a grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon”

- A thumbhole stock

- A telescoping or folding stock 

- A foregrip

- A flash suppressor

- A grenade launcher attachment

A pistol grip (as shown in figure 1) is a vertical grip similar to that of a pistol. A thumbhole stock is a stock that integrates a grip with a hole that allows the thumb to wrap around the grip. Almost every single modern rifle is usually fitted with a pistol grip, or occasionaly, a thumbhole stock (figure 2) as they are more ergonomic than traditional straight grips (figure 3). They do not, however, provide much of an advantage in how effectively a lay person could perform a mass shooting (which this law is designed to prevent). Instead, California rifle owners must fit their weapons with a fin/paddle grip (figure 4), or a slant grip (figure 5). Once again, these types of grips have a negligible impact on how effectively someone could kill multiple people. Telescoping (buffer tube) stocks (figure 6) are also almost entirely universal amongst modern rifles. They are adjustable to accommodate different body sizes and stance preferences. Having a buffer tube stock fully compressed/ collapsed folding stock (figure 7) doesn’t provide much assistance to a shooter unless they happen to be in a tight CQB situation and have the appropriate training. Foregrips (figure 8) actually do provide a bit of an advantage as they help mitigate recoil and increase muzzle maneuverability, especially for an inexperienced shooter, so their regulation makes some sense, but still not enough to warrant the level of restriction that they currently experience. Flash hiders/flash suppressors (figure 9) are often described by proponents of this law as being capable of greatly reducing the muzzle flash visible to the enemy who might be trying to spot them, but in reality they are designed to mitigate the muzzle flash from firing the weapon to the shooter in low-light situations, preventing it from temporarily blinding them. And of course, who can forget mother fucking grenade launcher attachments (figure 10). These haven’t been useful in 50 years. The only reason these exist was to make it easier for GIs to be able to deploy a long range grenade in the off chance that they need to. Now they just carry entirely separate weapon systems for 37 or 40mm grenades like the M320. Plus, civilians are essentially entirely unable to purchase the ammunition for these launchers anyway! 

Now, of course these restrictions are obviously idiotic because they don’t impede a shooter’s lethality by any meaningful margin as I have described, but here’s the kicker. Someone who’s planning to perpetrate a mass shooting is just going to ignore these restrictions anyway! They’re already planning to become a mass murder, and it’s not like these attachments/furniture are uncommon as is the case with automatic weapons thanks to the FFA of 1938. You can buy all of these almost anywhere in the country. This type of law isn’t prevalent enough to actually make it harder to obtain anything on the list like the FFA did (y’know, because it’s a federal law).

It‘s just a bunch of bullshit that ignorant legislators thought looked scary and chose to regulate with the only actual effect being inconveniencing law-abiding citizens.

It has "No. 434909" written on it if that helps.

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