What does SSE mean?

[-Josh-]

I know that SSE stands for Single Shot Exemption but I'm not understanding what that means. I've tried googling it and reading forums about it, but its all foreign sounding to me.

[LeadFarmer74]

It was a way to get off roster guns into California but that stopped beginning of 2015.

[DDM4556]

It was a way to get off roster guns into California but that stopped beginning of 2015.

This. By temporarily converting off-roster handguns to a single shot configuration (including blocking the mag well and swapping the barrel) FFLs could sell otherwise unattainable handguns. When you bought the gun you would just change it back to standard configuration.

That "loop hole" is now closed.

[Legasat]

It was not a "loop hole". Those yahoos in Sacramento write the blue prints for how this stuff works. If the restrictions they are trying to accomplish are not complete, it's fair game.

[Nodaedul]

It was not a "loop hole". Those yahoos in Sacramento write the blue prints for how this stuff works. If the restrictions they are trying to accomplish are not complete, it's fair game.

I would call the SSE a loop hole if it allows you to legally end up with exactly what the law intended to be illegal. The bullet button, however, would not be a loop hole since the resulting firearm ends up altered to fit the crippling intention of the law.

[-Josh-]

So SSE is basically a firearm that is not CA legal? What does that have to do with Single Shot?

[Lonestargrizzly]

It means nothing anymore.

[jcourson]

So SSE is basically a firearm that is not CA legal? What does that have to do with Single Shot?

Single shot firearms were exempt from the handgun roster. By converting it to single shot, an off roster firearm could be sold. The new owner was then able to convert it back to a semiautomatic configuration.

[-Josh-]

Single shot firearms were exempt from the handgun roster. By converting it to single shot, an off roster firearm could be sold. The new owner was then able to convert it back to a semiautomatic configuration.

Okay I'm starting to understand it now. How would you convert it to a single shot?

[HibikiR]

You convert it by doing what was posted earlier:

This. By temporarily converting off-roster handguns to a single shot configuration (including blocking the mag well and swapping the barrel) FFLs could sell otherwise unattainable handguns. When you bought the gun you would just change it back to standard configuration.

That "loop hole" is now closed.

[-Josh-]

You convert it by doing what was posted earlier:

Yes I saw that, but how would you block the mag well and still be able to reverse it? And would swapping out the barrel do?

[-Josh-]

I'm not trying to do it, I'm just trying to understand it.

[DDM4556]

For those of you who do not understand quotations - it was deliberate use of leftist terminology.

[Dano3467]

It means nothing, nada, no way, no how anymore.

[Merc1138]

First, SSE still exists. It simply changed.

Second, as far as what SSE was/is, start reading:

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=383692