Is a mounted Night vision Scope illegal in CA?

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Hi,
Someone at the gun store I was at today told me that mounting a Itt night vision monocular and a Aimpoint Comp m to my Colt AR 15/ Sporter was illegal in California. He said that any night vision that was mounted to a rifle was illegal.

Both Night vison and scope units are non magnified.

Is it true that night vision is illegal in California?

Someone please fill me in!! Im desperate for an answer!
 
Only those that use an infrared light source and electronic telescope are illegal. See section 468 of the Cal Penal Code: "Any person who knowingly buys, sells, receives. disposes of, conceals, or has in his possession a sniperscope shall be guilty of a misdemeanor...... As used in this section, sniperscope means any attachment, device or similar contrivance designed for or adaptable to use on a firearm which, through the use of a projected infrared light source and electronic telescope, enables the operator thereof to visually determine and locate the presence of objects during the nighttime. ........."
 
Thanks for the reply.

So what your saying is its only illegal with the infrared light source or electronic telescope?

So it would not be illegal if the Night vision scope had magnification?

Thanks again,
Brandon
 
Man, everything is illegal in CA. Seems as though you probably need to get a permit from ATF to light a match or smoke a cigarette. Hell you need to apply for a permit to wipe your own ass...
- An annoyed CA resident
 
Man, everything is illegal in CA. Seems as though you probably need to get a permit from ATF to light a match or smoke a cigarette.
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CAREFUL! It's illegal to say "Kalifornia" and "cigarette" in the same breath!
 
Wow. You guys really are deep in enemy territory, aren't you ...

Really ... sometimes I feel like I'll never again 'get' a joke about California. How could I guess anyone was kidding?

Regards from (still relatively free ...) AZ
 
IF you have a LOT of money to spend, you can mount a 3rd generation "passive" night vision scope on your rifle. The difference is that it does not use a projected beam of IR light to illuminate it's target. Passive IR scopes will operate detect the heat from the target.
The bottom line is that if your IR scope does not project it's own IR beam, but detects ambient or radiated light, then it's legal.

But I believe that these run $5000 and up.

There doesn't appear to be restrictions on magnification anywhere in the language of the law.

Bowser.
 
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