Lawmakers seek to strengthen state's assault-weapons ban

San Francisco Chronicle: Assemblyman David Chiu, seeking to strengthen the state’s ban on assault weapons, brought two semiautomatic rifles to San Francisco to show how quick and easy it is to load a clip full of bullets — legally and illegally.

It took him about two seconds to change clips on an illegal assault rifle. And it took him about three seconds — using the “bullet button” loophole in existing law — to change the clips on a legal semiautomatic rifle, the kind available for sale throughout California.

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