What is the action?

[REH]

Has anyone been given a definitive answer as to what part of an AR is the action? The part addressed in the knee jerk law, that must be disassembled to remove the magazine.

[8mmFMJ]

You have people that are anti gun writing gun laws. Think about that. There are 3 types of views: PRO, NEUTRAL, ANTI. We have people that hate something, writing technical laws about it.

ITS ****ING NONSENSE!

[8mmFMJ]

Analogy: Say I absolutely hate football and know nothing about it; but, because of my job I am allowed to rewrite the rules that the NFL has to play by. Would I be able to make the game fair and fun if I knew nothing of the game?

[kenl]

Not even close to being a lawyer, but I wonder. Can this abomination of a law be overturned because it's so vague?

[tileguy]

its better for us that they have no knowledge, its beneficial to us or we would have been shut down years ago with OLL

[jeffyhog]

Actions vary by type of firearm, but in general the action loads, fires, extracts the cartridge in a semi-auto action.
These legislators for the most part are ignorant of firearm function and the parts that make them work. I think they also fail to realize that firearms, for the most part, are very simple mechanical devices. Anything that they legislate will have a simple workaround. I don't think they are very mechanically inclined people in general and the concepts of engineering, machining, manufacturing, etc are for the most parts lost on them.

I think we're better off working within the stupid, vague laws as written. They'll quickly realize on their own how ineffective their law is, and they'll start working to make even more restrictive, pointed legislation.
One idiot that I work with immediately posted on Facebook his satisfaction with Brown for signing the bills, and gleefully posted "can't wait for the 'for sale' signs to go up" (on guns). They are going to quickly see that people aren't selling, that the affected guns are still flYing off the shelves, and that compliant rifles will still be available after "the ban" takes effect.
They'll cry and whine and talk of the horror. They'll still call them military style assault weapons and rage about the "loopholes" in the law.

[REH]

I see everyone’s point. My greatest concern is, because they lack the understanding of the function of a firearm, there will be confiscation and arrest made. When the 2000 assault bill passed it was very vague. The attorney General at the time said, we will interpreted the law through the courts.