Note: when they discuss DoJ they are talking about the CA DoJ. Sorry for any confusion. And you assume correctly, the CA DoJ no longer hands out permits for assualt weapons.
Ergo, there are no new assualt weapons in CA, and only law abiding lisence holders own assualt weapons in CA, and an assualt weapon will never, ever be used in a crime again in CA. Thank cod for our legislature, and the 9th circuit or we would have had bedlam in the streets.
Up next, and you heard it hear first, assualt pistols.