Which Bullet Button is best?

[rbetts]

I've got the regular bullet button on mine. Wish I had the Raddlock, though. The little collar on mine is turned so far down the shaft that I can't get it back off with the little red button wrench.

Try an opened paperclip. It works great!

[glock_this]

Ok, I much prefer the standard (Prince 50) bullet button.

It's the easiest to use of all the "bullet button" designs out there while inside California. The large manipulating hole just makes it very fast and easy to use not JUST with a bullet tip.

I also keep this in the pistol grip of every rifle I own (except my .22lr, duh):


When I'm out of state to shoot, I just put the standard mag catch in. I think it's silly to use a convertible tool when the original is just fine and already COMES WITH your gun and/or LPK. I put the original B.B. parts in the bag for storage so I don't lose anything.

The red wrench is for when I'm out of state but aren't really planning on going shooting. A lot of times I'll bring a gun "just in case", and for that I just leave the B.B. in place. If I happen to get some shooting in, I just pop the wrench in, have fun, and remove it when I'm done. This way I never screw up and end up breaking CA law when I drive back in.

My method involves almost zero labor, is extremely inexpensive, and works great.

I use the same kit, same tool on all of my AR's BUT I admit when I am out of CA I do not put on the stock mag release catch back on, I use the red tool as it is as easy and works perfect for me and is a good size to feel and actuate. I also keep these items in the grips of all of my ARs.

I will also add, I use Thordo's UBBT while here in CA and love them - have them on all of my mags. Literally.

[dandingo13]

Ok, I much prefer the standard (Prince 50) bullet button.

I also keep this in the pistol grip of every rifle I own (except my .22lr, duh):


The red wrench is for when I'm out of state but aren't really planning on going shooting. A lot of times I'll bring a gun "just in case", and for that I just leave the B.B. in place. If I happen to get some shooting in, I just pop the wrench in, have fun, and remove it when I'm done. This way I never screw up and end up breaking CA law when I drive back in.

Is it legal to keep the Bullet Button Wonder Tool in your pistol grip, since it's attached to your rifle? I'd be very interested in keeping something like that in there for when I go out-of-state but worry about being CA compliant.

[bombadillo]

I've had b15, b16, prince50, "Bullet Button" (the original), Jtrocks, and now Raddlock. I prefer the Jtrocks but he's not making them anymore to my knowledge so I went with the raddlock. Its a tad more but its really easy to install, doesn't mar up the gun (My safe queen anyway) and converts over to .22lr or featureless with a couple turns of a screwdriver. Best of all worlds for me.

[CHS]

Is it legal to keep the Bullet Button Wonder Tool in your pistol grip, since it's attached to your rifle? I'd be very interested in keeping something like that in there for when I go out-of-state but worry about being CA compliant.

Since it would be a violation of physics to actually use the tool while "attached" to the firearm storage in the pistol grip is fine

You need to be careful when you have the tool attached to the firearm in such a way that it allows you to manipulate the bullet button.

Just like the little nubs that people attach to the bottoms of their magazines to operate the bullet button. It's physically impossible to manipulate the button with the magazine that's actually attached to your gun, so it's ok.

[tintguy]

Since it would be a violation of physics to actually use the tool while "attached" to the firearm storage in the pistol grip is fine

You need to be careful when you have the tool attached to the firearm in such a way that it allows you to manipulate the bullet button.

Just like the little nubs that people attach to the bottoms of their magazines to operate the bullet button. It's physically impossible to manipulate the button with the magazine that's actually attached to your gun, so it's ok.

This brings up an interesting question. What if you have a Redi-mag system with two mags that have the bb tool dimple attached? You've got to remove one mag from the Redi-mag to drop the other mag. Is this good to go?

[CHS]

This brings up an interesting question. What if you have a Redi-mag system with two mags that have the bb tool dimple attached? You've got to remove one mag from the Redi-mag to drop the other mag. Is this good to go?

I would think so.

The problem with the "device attached to the rifle" is where you can operate the bullet button with the device with zero effort, or without removing it from the firearm.

A perfect example of toeing the line would be a tool on a lanyard that's dangling from the trigger guard. If the line is long enough to reach the magazine release, then it's attached to the firearm in such a way that you can use it without effort.

Another perfect example is the "felony button" mag magnet. It attaches right to the magazine release itself.

But if you have to remove the tool from the firearm first in order to actually use it, you're not going to run into issues.

Otherwise, you'd have a problem every single time you loaded your gun (just think about that one for a couple minutes)