By definition, military assault rifles have the capability to fire either semi-automatically or automatically. Since 1934 all automatic weapons have been illegal in California, therefore, we don't need this law because true assault weapons are already banned. We all saw the bank robbery in North Hollywood last year. Let me remind you the guns used in that crime were illegal. Problem is that since the criminals were going there to rob a bank they didn't care that the guns that we said they were going to use to rob the bank were against the law.
Bank robbery is against the law, shooting at police officers is against the law.
Fortunately, though, AB 23 was not in effect at the time of that bank robbery because the police officers who responded to that call had to go down the street to a civilian gun store to borrow weapons which would have been banned under AB 23. The guns covered in this bill are actually replicas of military weapons. They do not have the same capabilities, and I know you'd heard it's easy to convert a civilian gun to a military gun, that's not true. Not only is it not true, but the possession of the parts and equipment required to do that is currently a felony. Some of us drive sports cars, Porsche, Jaguar, Ferrari, whatever.