He explained this to me once. This is what you get for allowing people like Leland Yee to write "safety" legislation.
Essentially it's a ploy to try and force gun manufacturers to pay ball with them. If your gun isn't on our state-approved list (that requires expensive licensing and testing, not to mention having to send the state hundreds of test models never to be seen again), it can't be sold in our state. A couple years ago there was a big kerfuffle when Glock refused to put a magazine (un)safety on their pistols and they were going to lose their spot on the authorized list. I don't remember exactly what happened, but I know my brother can still sell Glocks and they still only have the three safeties Glocks have always had.
The single shot rule was a loophole that allowed gun shops to sell guns that weren't on the list. Essentially the models were retrofit with an extended barrel with no feed ramps and a pinned magazine so it can only fire one shot. Now that it's a single shot pistol it can be sold without having to be on the authorized list. So the buyer comes in, buys his "single-shot pistol," leaves the store, turns around and walks back in the store, buys a replacement barrel and magazine, and goes home and drops them into his new "unapproved" semi-auto. Most of the time they just buy the original barrel that was removed for a dollar or two and hand back the dummy extended barrel so that it can be used for the next purchase.
My brother never did this in his store (I've never met a more honest person in my entire life) but you can bet all of his competitors did.
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