Guns that are nearly identical to assault weapons banned in California are legal unless they were outlawed by name or have specific assault weapon characteristics, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
According to O'Bagy, the video shows the fighters holding Croatian-made weapons identical to those covertly shipped to other rebels only weeks before.
Prosecutors said that among his possessions were weapons identical to those used in the Brussels attack, as well as a 40-second video confession.
Authorities said he had a Kalashnikov and a pistol in his possession, identical to the weapons used in the museum attack on 24 May in which two Israeli tourists, a French volunteer and a Belgian museum employee were shot dead.
The owners reel off makes and models of firearms — rifles by Saiga and Remington, for example — that are mechanically identical to the weapons singled out by bans but that do not have pistol grips or other styling features.
Police were on the defense that morning, sharing a photo of a similar BB gun at a press conference to show that, as Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs said, Tyre's gun was "practically identical" to the weapons police use.
Authorities have said Tyre's BB gun resembled a real firearm, and the police division's chief Kim Jacobs said her officers "carry a gun that looks practically identical to this weapon".
North Korea tested an advanced anti-ship cruise missile Saturday that analysts say appears identical to a weapon used by Russia.
He said the "reappearance of men with specialised Russian weapons and identical uniforms without insignia, as previously worn by Russian troops during Russia's illegal and illegitimate seizure of Crimea, is a grave development".
And the organisation's chief, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said on Sunday it was a "grave development" that men had reappeared "with specialised Russian weapons and identical uniforms without insignia, as previously worn by Russian troops during Russia's illegal and illegitimate seizure of Crimea".
