but owner travis morgan says this year it's different. >> nobody is sure what the law's gonna be, how it's gonna be, when it's gonna be written, what you've got to register. it slowed down. >> reporter: that's because a new law makes many of the guns he once sold and many of his customers still use illegal. until this year ar rifles equipped with so-called bullet buttons were exempt from california's assault weapon ban even though they have a detachable magazine with the features of a military-style gun. that's because you need a tool, usually a bullet, to release the magazine rather than just the push of a finger, making them slower to reload. but that didn't slow down the san bernardino shooters in december of 2015. they managed to gun down 36 people in a span of three minutes. so lawmakers in sacramento took action, closing what the department of justice now calls a loophole in the law. now bullet button ars can no longer be sold. there is an exemption for people who lawfully owned them before the beginning of the year. >> last time mr. brown vetoed it. this time he didn't. he is a