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In reply to the discussion: California gun laws: Jerry Brown signs major new restrictions on firearms owners, rejects others [View all]happyslug
(14,779 posts)Read section one, it clearly exempts rifles with fixed magazines, thus those features, only apply to rifles with detachable magazines. The SKS has a semi detachable magazine, but that magazine is also fixed to the SKS and you have to take the SKS apart to remove the magazine. Thus the SKS magazine meets the definition in section 8 of having a fixed magazine.
Please note the SKS semi fixed magazine can be replaced by after market detachable magazines. If you should fit such a Magazine to the SKS, the Modified SKS would be illegal. It is not hard to make the change, all you have to do is remove the magazine that came with the SKS. Takes a few minutes but then the replacement detachable magazines will fit.
Thus my comments only apply to the SKS with its original magazine still attached to it.