Is it illegal to shoot an AR-15 in Cali?

[tooterfish]

I recently transported my AR-15 to California, equipped it with 10 round magazines, a bullet button and had to install a few other items to make it California legal. I was just about to roll out to the desert to fire a few rounds off but a buddy of mine mentioned that it is illegal to shoot AR-15s on public land. Would someone mind confirming/elaborating?

[Jason25]

There are many places in the desert that you can shoot. ARs included...

[rman]

this is true under the following conditions, but not limited to:

shooting in the desert at someone
shooting in the desert at explosives
shooting in the desert with tracers or explosive ammo
shooting in the desert while recording tv shows for the purpose of distribution or public rebroadcast
shooting in the desert with your ar15 and stabbing a child.




-Armand

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[edgerly779]

Lot of posts about this. Depends on location /county/ national forest/ etc. Where in the desert are you thinking of going? There is no blanket yes or no. Your buddy is partly right and partly wrong. This is going to be a contentious post with all the fud out there.

[d4v0s]

In your county there will be a blm office. Call or drive there and purchase a shooting map. Or a little search here and you can find the maps posted usually.

I think there used to be some thing about RAWs on blm land. However after reading a recent blm post I saw that many folks shoot RAWs and bb ar15s on federal land all the time.

Also, besides a 10 round magazine and a bb, what did you equip to your rifle?

[tooterfish]

Sorry I should have been more specific. I'm in the High Desert. I think the BLM website specified shotguns only for the Hesperia area due to scattered homes. Does anyone have any recommendations for AR-15 shooting?

[edgerly779]

Look up san bernadino county shooting map. Detailed and specific. Never listen to a layman or your buddy.

[tooterfish]

Look up san bernadino county shooting map. Detailed and specific. Never listen to a layman or your buddy.

I did do some searching on google, most refer to this link which is a 404 page now.

http://www.specialdistricts.org/2/docs/FishandGameShootingAreas.pdf

edit: found this http://www.specialdistricts.org/index.aspx?page=172 going to try and call to be safe though.

[edgerly779]

Stop reinventing the wheel. Type San Bernadino County shooting map in your taskbar and look at it.

[lwbyo1]

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY RECREATIONAL SHOOTING AND HUNTING AREAS MAP