AW Registration Guide **3/18/2021 update: Registration may re-open soon**

[CandG]

I would agree with those points, especially the last one hahaha

DOJ knows they'll face a losing lawsuit if they deny registration for people who sent in their apps before the deadline (and in some cases, many months before the deadline)

I submitted mine in early April, so if my app gets denied because they dragged their feet for 3 months, I'll be the first one in line to be a plaintiff, and considering my apps have zero errors and many people who submitted after me got their letters before July, I'd say DOJ would stand zero chance of winning that lawsuit

[aBrowningfan]

Good advice - also, the system warns you in advance (2 weeks before, or so, I believe) that your password will expire, and if you change it before it expires then you don't have to go through the whole "forgot password" process.

So while you still have apps pending, I'd recommend logging in at least once a week to see if oyur password is set to expire soon. (And while you're there, check your CFARS order history to see if any guns were marked "incomplete").

Any idea how long the password is good for (before the password expire flag is set)? 2 months? 3 months? Or?

[aBrowningfan]

Data point time!

Got a single envelope from DOJ with some approval letters. Some interesting notes:

1)All of my submissions were separate. I ate $15 per gun just so a single gun would not hold up a batch.

2)The individual letters I got (in one envelope) all had a single gun on them, EXCEPT one letter had 2 guns that were submitted separately.

3)They stuffed 8 letters into one envelope so I guess that's efficient.

4)The letters covered submissions ranging from 5/16 through 6/26. So just counting the 6/26 submission, that's quite the quick turn around at only 2 weeks!

However, I still have submissions from within that same range that are still pending. Mostly stuff from manufacturers that were not in the drop down but also a few that were.

Congratulations! I wish I could post something remotely like what you just posted.

[CandG]

Any idea how long the password is good for (before the password expire flag is set)? 2 months? 3 months? Or?

2 or 3 months, I forget which. Kind of ridiculous that they're that paranoid about our passwords while simultaneously sharing all our info on accident with unauthorized people multiple times.

[aBrowningfan]

2 or 3 months, I forget which. Kind of ridiculous that they're that paranoid about our passwords while simultaneously sharing all our info on accident with unauthorized people multiple times.

This whole process has been a yuuge cluster****.

[Ford8N]

This whole process has been a yuuge cluster****.

Yup, also the data collected in the registration is wrong. Maybe mistakes were made by the software in the drop down menu and by the DOJ personnel who checked it. Any attorney worth their salt will be able to shred this registration scheme.

[Discogodfather]

Any idea how long the password is good for (before the password expire flag is set)? 2 months? 3 months? Or?

For me it was 6 months.

[G-forceJunkie]

I would take a super clear hig res close up of the engraving and submit it. The paperwork should match the engraving.

I received an incomplete notice for my anderson am15. the picture i submitted clearly shows "am15" on the receiver, yet the message i received reads something like "based on your photos, the model is "mp-15". please correct your application." Should i just change it to the incorrect model?

[broscheanu]

[Discogodfather]

"This latest withdrawal of a proposed regulation expanding the application of DOJ’s illegally adopted regulations is welcome news for all California gun owners. At the very least, the withdraw shows CA DOJ does not get a free pass to adopt regulations outside the scope of its authority. "

That's fine and I want it to be true but they withdrew the old regs and we all celebrated last year and then a few days latter they were back in and approved shortly after that, so.............

It's interesting to remember that the difference between the second and third round of reg submissions in 2017 were basically the same clause that was resubmitted as the newer 2018 regulations- about the "pursuant" SB880/SB23 language.

[bigbully]

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I couldn't find anything super clear on these "proposed regulations" that were just withdrawn, but of course, CA DOJ can just come out with new regulations tomorrow.

I don't think it means we can suddenly start having normal mag releases on our RAWs, which is what the law should allow us to do as all they've changed was adding the bullet button as another evil feature on a gun. That would be too easy.

[Discogodfather]

I couldn't find anything super clear on these "proposed regulations" that were just withdrawn, but of course, CA DOJ can just come out with new regulations tomorrow.

I don't think it means we can suddenly start having normal mag releases on our RAWs, which is what the law should allow us to do as all they've changed was adding the bullet button as another evil feature on a gun. That would be too easy.

It's just this simple paragraph:



This was the only revision DOJ withdrew from the 2nd round of regs in 2017 to the third round of revisions. They erased the language that 5471 was pursuant to 30515. That would mean the new definitions of 5471 were in accordance with the old 30515 definitions. They then submitted this short regulation change, putting it "back in" so to speak, in May 2018.

I feel like it's just housekeeping on DOJ's part to cover a potentially vulnerable position posed by Villenueve v Bercerra. If they withdraw it and don't resubmit it it's a minor win, and opens more vulnerability in court. If they just resubmit it in a few days and it gets rubber stamped then it's not worth much.

[Syntax Error]

I figured it was a kind of nothingburger. Even the CRPA really couldn't hype it past the whole "we made the DOJ withdraw some regs!" spin.

[CandG]

I figured it was a kind of nothingburger. Even the CRPA really couldn't hype it past the whole "we made the DOJ withdraw some regs!" spin.

Giving DOJ a headache is always a win, but ya it doesn't really change anything as things stand currently.