Reply #168: Oh, darn it... :)

[benEzra]

GM will have to come out with a post-ban version with no air dam and two valves per cylinder. :)


Actually, the original Feinstein ban (1994-2004) did have some self-contradictory bits. For example, the mini-14 without a folding stock was explicitly protected, but you could run afoul of the features list if you put a pistol grip stock on one with muzzle threads. So if you did, the law supposedly exempted such a mini-14, while simultaneously banning it. Case law never resolved that because the BATFE apparently thought that provision was too dumb to enforce, and I am not aware of anyone ever being prosecuted for putting two listed features on a postban rifle.

The same situation occurred for reproductions of Civil-War vintage lever-action carbines; those were on the protected list, but simultaneously banned by the 10-round capacity limit. BATFE let them slide also.