Beretta Competition Conversion Kit

[hkseeker62]

Proud owner of several Beretta firearms. I have an opportunity to purchase a 92FS 9mm Competition Match pistol.

It has a Beretta Competition Conversion Kit on it. The kit includes a 7.3 in (190 mm) barrel with counterweight and elevated front sight, a fully-adjustable target rear sight and ergonomic walnut grips.

The gentleman has own this pistol for 15 years here in California. I wish to purchase it. So today we're both at Turner's Outdoorsman's gun shop to do a PPT. The gun clerk informs us that the pistol with the extended barrel that has a treaded
barrel and is considered an "ASSAULT PISTOL" because of the threaded barrel and they can not touch it. If however the kit
is removed the pistol can be transfer to a new owner.

So my question to anyone in California that is aware of this Assault Weapons Laws regarding treaded barrels.
If I purchase the pistol without the Kit, it's just another firearm. If he gives me the kit separate from the gun transaction
can I install it on the original pistol and be within the California Assault Weapons Law regarding treaded barrels.

Thanks in advance to all the can help me with matter.

[Quiet]

It is not legal to have the threaded barrel installed on a semi-auto pistol that uses detachable magazines. [PC 12276.1(a)(4)(A)]

It is legal to own a threaded barrel, you just can not legally install it onto a semi-auto pistol that uses detachable magazines.

If you want to legally install the threaded barrel to the Beretta, then you must make the Beretta into a fixed magazine pistol (install a magazine lock and use 10 round or less magazines).


Penal Code 12276.1
(a) Notwithstanding Section 12276, "assault weapon" shall also mean any of the following:
(4) A semiautomatic pistol that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and any one of the following:
(A) A threaded barrel, capable of accepting a flash suppressor, forward handgrip, or silencer.
(B) A second handgrip.
(C) A shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel that allows the bearer to fire the weapon without burning his or her hand, except a slide that encloses the barrel.
(D) The capacity to accept a detachable magazine at some location outside of the pistol grip.
(5) A semiautomatic pistol with a fixed magazine that has the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds.