RL,
I defer to your legal expertise. I've attached some links which might be of interest to you. Apparently there is a way around the CA AWB.
As I understand this, there is a list of banned guns in CA. Someone sued the state, saying that the state had to ban each individual manufacturer not just “AR Series.” Well a judge agreed, so the state has to ban each AR lower by name, not just AR series.
If the State bans a particular lower, an owner of such a lower would have 90 days to register it as an assault weapon. Once it is a registered assault weapon you can have 30rd mags and all the “scary” features you want. So they will probably not ban any more, because if they don’t ban it you are limited to a 10 round fixed magazine.
Fixed magazines are magazines that are permanently attached or can only be removed with a tool. One such permanently attached magazine device uses a 5.56 round as the "tool" to remove the magazine.
Before I jump feet first into this, I humbly ask for your legal expertise. These are the links I mentioned earlier. Ten percent firearms is located in Taft, CA.
http://www.tenpercentfirearms.com/in...main_page=ar15
http://www.calguns.net/copmemo2.pdf
http://www.tenpercentfirearms.com/in...=index&cPath=9