flechette shotgun ammo

[pulserifle99]

I know it is illegal to load a flechette round but is it illegal to actually be in possesion of the flechette?

[socalguns]

doesn't appear so

http://ag.ca.gov/firearms/dwcl/12020.php

specifically spells out ammunition,

http://leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html

reveals no other references to flechette

[hitnrun]

If it's just the flechette, the section defines it as a dart CAPABLE of being fired. The section also describes it as being loaded into any ammo. I would say that just possession is okay, though it might be a bit of a gray area.

12020 PC: (a) Any person in this state who does any of the following
is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year
or in the state prison:
(1) Manufactures or causes to be manufactured, imports into the
state, keeps for sale, or offers or exposes for sale, or who gives,
lends, or possesses any cane gun or wallet gun, any undetectable
firearm, any firearm which is not immediately recognizable as a
firearm, any camouflaging firearm container, any ammunition which
contains or consists of any flechette dart, any bullet containing or
carrying an explosive agent, any ballistic knife, any multiburst
trigger activator, any nunchaku, any short-barreled shotgun, any
short-barreled rifle, any metal knuckles, any belt buckle knife, any
leaded cane, any zip gun, any shuriken, any unconventional pistol,
any lipstick case knife, any cane sword, any shobi-zue, any air gauge
knife, any writing pen knife, any metal military practice
handgrenade or metal replica handgrenade, or any instrument or weapon
of the kind commonly known as a blackjack, slungshot, billy,
sandclub, sap, or sandbag.

.....

(6) As used in this section, a "flechette dart" means a dart,
capable of being fired from a firearm, that measures approximately
one inch in length, with tail fins that take up approximately
five-sixteenths of an inch of the body.