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Not having any experience with owning bolt action rifles in CA, went to the flowchart link "CA Rifle Ban Interactive Chart" in the header of this forum (http://calnra.com/cgi-bin/flowchart.cgi), and was surprised that the result was:
Somewhat confused as I had thought that bolt action rifles were "OK", went to the "CA Semiauto Ban(AW)ID Flowchart" link to the original PDF flowchart (http://www.calguns.net/caawid/flowchart.pdf) and found Question 8, "Is the rifle a semi-auto?", which indicated that Non-Semi Auto Rifles are LEGAL.
Upon further review, realized that the "CA Rifle Ban Interactive Chart" link is actually the "Interactive California Centerfire, Semi-Auto Rifle Identification Flowchart" [emphasis added] and therefore skips questions 6 and 8 from the PDF flowchart pertaining to rimfire and semi-auto status.
Not sure whether this is the right section, but would like to make two suggestions that could reduce the possibility of confusing users like myself who might not have noticed that the general sounding "CA Rifle Ban Interactive Chart" link took them to an interactive chart that omits rimfire and non semi-auto rifles?
1) Rename the two links in the header of the CGN site to reflect what they actually link to:
2) Perhaps place a note under the text "-- The ORIGINAL CA AW ID Flowchart pdf file is available HERE --" in the Interactive Chart that states something along the lines of "Assault weapon laws do not apply to Rimfire or non semi-auto rifles"?
Hope this gets seen by the right people who may be able to reduce confusion for anyone else! Thanks CGN!=)
Somewhat confused as I had thought that bolt action rifles were "OK", went to the "CA Semiauto Ban(AW)ID Flowchart" link to the original PDF flowchart (http://www.calguns.net/caawid/flowchart.pdf) and found Question 8, "Is the rifle a semi-auto?", which indicated that Non-Semi Auto Rifles are LEGAL.
Upon further review, realized that the "CA Rifle Ban Interactive Chart" link is actually the "Interactive California Centerfire, Semi-Auto Rifle Identification Flowchart" [emphasis added] and therefore skips questions 6 and 8 from the PDF flowchart pertaining to rimfire and semi-auto status.
Not sure whether this is the right section, but would like to make two suggestions that could reduce the possibility of confusing users like myself who might not have noticed that the general sounding "CA Rifle Ban Interactive Chart" link took them to an interactive chart that omits rimfire and non semi-auto rifles?
1) Rename the two links in the header of the CGN site to reflect what they actually link to:
- "CA Semiauto Ban(AW)ID Flowchart" -> "CA Rifle [Ban] Identification Flowchart" *The link says "Semiauto" but the actual header in the PDF is a more "general" Rifle ID and covers rimfire and non semi-auto
- "CA Rifle Ban Interactive Chart" -> "CA Centerfire Semi-Auto Rifle Ban Interactive Chart" *Since the interactive version omits rimfire and non semi-auto questions.
2) Perhaps place a note under the text "-- The ORIGINAL CA AW ID Flowchart pdf file is available HERE --" in the Interactive Chart that states something along the lines of "Assault weapon laws do not apply to Rimfire or non semi-auto rifles"?
Hope this gets seen by the right people who may be able to reduce confusion for anyone else! Thanks CGN!=)
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