LOL. The State of California orginally passed a law which banned specific assault weapons by name, they came back and amended that legislation in 2000 or 2001 and genericized it as best they could to cover as many variations that were understood at the time with specific emphasis on AK and AR weapons.
Are people skirting the law with derivatives and variations and grandfathering etc. etc. Sure. that happens all the time, with 1000's of laws covering all matter of issues.
But the jest of the law was and still is an attempt to ban the sale of, and requiring the special permitting and registration of assault weapons.
Only a hyperactive whack-a-doodle would attempt to argue otherwise . . . thus we have EDN.