Can You Complete Fallout 4 Using Only California-Compliant Weapons? 

Wow! I was not expecting this much of a positive response from this video! I guess I'll go ahead and say now that I'd be crazy NOT to do another one of these challenges in Fallout: New Vegas so yeah, it's happening now. It's not gonna be for a while though as I've gotta get ready for my yearly Halloween in July event plus the vids I mentioned at the end of this one like Transformers and Pathologic 2. Also, please understand that there's no way I can fill a Mitten Squad-shaped hole in your hearts: no one can replace him and I'm not going to try. Challenge runs are a lot of fun and I'd like do do more of them every once in a while, but in no way am I just gonna start only doing those now. My love is still Immersive Sims and weird little horror games. But hey, I can balance those two things so I'm sure I can throw an occasional challenge run into the mix as a treat. Maybe like, one or two a year.

Furiously googling Power Fist compliance laws in California

If a handgun is 50 years or older, it's automatically a c&r handgun and exempt from the roster, which every handgun would be 200+ years old, unless it's a newer pipe gun.

Just here to say that Mama Murphy calls Dogmeat Dogmeat. You have to ask if he's her dog when she mentions him, but she responds with something like, "Dogmeat is his own man" and then implies that it's a good sign of character if he likes you.

The funniest part is that the original inspiration, a messed up obrez, is expressly illegal by CA law

Rest in peace mitten squad, this makes me think of him

Man it's fucked up that certified lawyer Charlatan Wonder made this video in part as a way to give legal advice.

As soon as you said "Let's take a minute for ourselves because I'm not into sponsorship", I subbed.

Hilarious video! One note, “Dog” in fallout 4 actually *can* be named “Dogmeat” if you have him as your companion, then talk to Mama Murphy during the siege of the museum in Concord. Right after you talk to Preston and Sturges, talk to mama Murphy. If Dog is your companion, she’ll comment about how “Dogmeat” always finds good people to follow, and from then on his name will be Dogmeat.

“Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. Now pay 200$ a month to read about all the stuff we are charging you with”

Until the very end I was afraid that ATF will come and shoot dogmeat 😢

Damn, that minute of appreciation actually really touched me. That's honestly really sweet of you to include as a simple way of brightening our day.

WOAH! I was not expecting this to get anywhere near a million views! Thank you all so much!

Hate to be that guy but: Penal Code 399.5 is the California statute that makes it a crime for a person to own a dog that is trained to fight, attack or kill, provided that he knows the dog is dangerous and: the dog bites a person, on two separate occasions or more, or. the dog bites a person once and causes a substantial injury.

Nick Valentine was a Law Enforcement Officer. He could have used his old Service Weapon. EDIT: Local, not Federal

I think it could be funny to do this challenge but have a mod in the background where if you do pick something up the entire ATF constantly raids and kills you and your settlements until you throw away the non-complaint gun lol.

I stopped paying attention for 5 minutes and suddenly I'm learning how to make pastrami burgers in a fallout 4 challenge video

"I cannot afford to legally defend myself adequately but at least I'm extremely well hydrated" yeah I'm not familiar with california but sounds pretty accurate

With one simple restriction he turned the game from post nuclear roleplaying to a normal day in LA simulator

I love the slight role play you add in. Setting up Nordhagan Beach as a staging ground for the BoS's arrival. Like in my recent run, I was saying I was an NCR Ranger who was sent east to see if they could set up a foothold there and then expand our way back west. And he was using the Minutemen to help take the commonwealth and would fold them into becoming the East Coast NCR. Stupid, I know. But I had fun with it.

people who are genuine earn kudos in my book , the fact that you didnt hit us with an add but instead chose to use that moment to be wholesome is the reason why i subbed , thank you for being you

“Today we’re doing a California compliance run!” *sighs deeply* *unequips all items that aren’t clothes*

"this is not a battle, this is a formality" is a line that actually goes so hard.

California has a statute that allows the manufacture of homemade firearms that don’t have serial numbers but follow all aforementioned regulatory laws regarding them. That technically includes all… found pipe weapons that meet the states laws so, technically if you don’t use a pipe weapon but pick it up and modify it, you’re still in compliance… Technically 😂

Thank you for doing this in honor of Mitten Squad. You are such a fantastic youtuber, and I love all of your videos. Looking forward to the next one.

Fallout 4: *takes place in and around Boston* Charl: *follows California laws*

1:07:38 Junkie's Harpoon Gun actually sounds like a real legendary weapon drop in real world California

I know this is me being a smartass but wouldn't it make more sense to follow Massachusetts State gun requirements instead of California?

1:16:55 Having settlers and traveling merchants jumping your rides is your own fault for leaving the keys in your cars my dude.

"Do you have any idea how expensive a WestLaw or LexisNexus subscription is?" Yes. Yes I do. I was a Paralegal Studies major for my first few years of college. I know JUST how bad it is, and I find it anti-citizen that ordinary people just straight up DO NOT HAVE ACCESS to the majority of the laws of the country they live it. And no, you cannot blame laywers as a whole, as they don't like it either. The ONLY people who like how pricey access to the law itself is are WestLaw, LexisNexus, and every politician (and potentially lobbyist) in the country.

"Mitten Squad is gonna have a field day with this one" Damn. He would have. RIP.

I have seen a lot of fallout content creators of different calibers and I have been on RU-vid for many a year. I have never even seen a Charlatan Wonder video before but I have never subscribed so fast to a channel as I did once we got to the minute of appreciation. That was amazing and you are an amazing person

Great video! From the heartfelt message at the start, to the Silver Shroud recordings, to the cooking segment, it's all been very enjoyable to watch. Never watched a Fallout vid like this, but I love it.

I love that while still in the spirit of the Cali challenge, Char immediately extended the barrle on spronglo and threw a stock on it... breaking the National Firearms Act.

I know a guy that got 24 years in prison in California for getting drunk and shooting an AK-47 in the air, the average sentence for murder in CA is 7 years

Amazing video, I loved the randomness of having a cooking segment in the middle. Exactly my brand of chaos! Im going to go see what other videos you have after this :D

Okay, hear me out... you COULD use a fully automatic firearm if all you're aiming to do is play within the boundaries of the laws of california, then after using whatever over-the-top weapon you prefer you then, "get arrested", go through "trial", get a 15 year prison sentence, spend 10 years in a "cell" and then 5 on paper for good behavior, continue on the with the game....

As any DnD player would tell you: Constitution (Endurance) is never a dump stat.

I am sure CA has a plethora of laws overseeing scrapping houses, farming, wells and even pets, especially pets like dogmeat. Fun video, I laughed all the way through!

Minute of Appreciation for my day: I harvested spearmint from my garden, rotated the dried sprigs out for the fresh ones, then made chocolate-mint iced tea for myself. Mm~... Edit: also, no, the next-nearest vendor is Trashcan Carla on the road to Starlight Drive-In.

CHALLENGE Mode: Complete this challenge while obeying legislation on LASER devices, pressurized gas containers, high-energy industrial devices with EMI risk (like Gauss Guns and Plasma Weapons) and all OSHA regulations in settlement construction. NIGHTMARE mode: INCLUDE BUILDING LEGISLATION.

“In the grim darkness of the future, there are only California compliant weapons” is just so f ing hilarious

I love how this all a sudden turns into 40K references - excellent 😂

In lieu of no ads, here’s my thanks for that helpful gratitude reminder 🙏

I don't know, "I am not an attorney and this is not legal advice"? Sounds like something an attorney would say.

Just pointing this out in case someone else hasn't already: Dogmeat is referred to as Dogmeat if you travel to Mama Murphy in the Museum of Freedom with Dogmeat in your party. And then he gains the name 'Dogmeat'. I thought this was well known by now, but I suppose not. The more you learn, though!

I love how you can instakill a deathclaw or fucking swan but can't survive 2 feral ghouls, Fallout is a perfectly balanced game.

The minute of appreciation instead of a sponsorship is legitimately one of the most heartwarming things I've seen in a RU-vid video. Love the vibes dude :)

Never, ever, EVER, leave fusion cells in your power armor. When you get out of it, you remove the cell. Every time. No exceptions.

14:06 You got into a high speed car crash right there. Cars are physics objects and deals damage based on relative velocity and weight on impact. Sprinting into a car is thus considered a ton of metal hitting you at decent speed, prop-killing you.

Californian here, I was expecting a tofu burger. You are in denial if you think the stereotype isn't well founded. Also The Hat's pastrami isn't nearly as good as people pretend it is, it's just the sign and landmark status. Go to Langhers in downtown LA for good pastrami.

First 10 minutes was representation of how long an overly confident Californian would survive in a post apocalyptic scenario. Wait police would definitely confiscate your modified baseball bat!

I think they call him Dogmeat after Valentine tells you the name is Dogmeat during the Kellog quest.

Post apocalypse achievement unlocked: "Playing by the rules" Score 100 kills with a cali compliant rifle

Dude that ad break was amazing. I needed that today. Thanks

Obrez wasnt used as a sidearm, obrez was born out of neccessity for a light weight easily concealable weapon. See serfs werent allowed to have weapons and youd be shot for having a weapon by white tsarist forces so mensheviks started shaving off mosins and bolsheviks started using them en masse as they were far more radical than mensheviks. Why didnt they just get a pistol you ask? Well russia did not have a real sidearms in production, closest thing to a sidearm they had was belgian nagant revolver thats construction was almost equivalent to a mosin, so pistols were few and far and mostly reserved for officers and nobility, while average soldiers would just get a bolt action rifle.

Dogmeat will only acquire the name if you talk to Mama Murphy in the museum of freedom the first time you meet her while he’s your companion. Weird, but that’s the only way he gets named Dogmeat

fun fact if you were to do this with new jersey laws, you actually wouldnt be allowed to carry any weapons at all without a "legal reason" for it. Self defense is not considered a legal reason in new jersey. This is why having a swiss army knife(or anything that could be used as a weapon) in your pocket while on a walk is a crime punishable for up to 5 years in jail. Oh also slingshots are completely banned here for some reason lol.

This is an absolutely incredible video! From the ground up, just perfection. Thank you.

It's a lovely day to remind people that "THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS *SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED*"

funnily enough, california listing a cannon as an example of a destructive device is the most ironic thing in existence. This is because one of the explicit examples given by the founding fathers for a weapon that shall never be limited was, in fact, a cannon. You are even explicitly noted as being able to use one in notarized legal documents.

Piper uses a default 10mm, which has a magazine capacity of 12, making you an accomplice to an illegally modified firearm owner

I love creative challenges like this, you’re super entertaining as well.

Survival difficulty is required when there's mention of modern day California

I guess California is more memeable, But doing Boston/Mass laws in FO4 and Cali/NV for FONV could be "fun." New Vegas could be done a couple ways, but it would be torturous if you had to drop all your good stuff as soon as you enter NCR territory. Since there seems to be ongoing litigation over some of the laws in the past couple years, I'd go with the most restrictive iteration. Without going into too much detail, california defines "assault weapons" by a number of arbitrary features, but as it happens, most weapons in game are disqualified by minimum mag size or being innately full auto, so you don't really need to go into it. List of possibly legal weapons (Theoretically possible to posses and carry with requisite permits): - Revolvers - Flare gun - Hunting Rifles* - Lever Actions* - Manwell Rifle* - Double Barrel Shotguns** - Syringer (Probably? it is akin to dart guns used for animal control, although if you want to be strict, darts that do direct damage probably contain poisons/controlled substances) - Paddle Ball (lol) - All bladed weapons except switchblade, as long as they are not concealed*** - All blunt weapons - Boxing Gloves *Barrel >16" or overall length of >26" **Barrel >18" or overall length of >26", ***If you want to be really strict you could say that it is concealed if it is not currently equipped, which would basically make every edged weapon over 5" illegal and anything not a handgun, i.e. revolver. Iffy: - Pipe guns/Handmade Shotgun (homemade, so transfer would be illegal, but if you made the receiver from scratch and immediately modified it to legal spec) - Triple Barrel Handmade Shotgun (Iffy for being handmade as before, but also the ATF defines automatic as firing more than two rounds with a single pull of the trigger, so current multibarrel guns have a mechanism so all barrels must be fired in sequence, so as long as it meets ** requirements and only fires barrels in sequence it should be fine.) - Railway rifle (might be a destructive device, nobody really knows how it works.) - Cryolator (Same as above) - Gauss Rifles (Similar to above, but it probably would be legal as long as it adheres to *, being a rifle) - Flamer (Seeing as the fuel appears to be a gas, it could be considered a tool, like a blowtorch) - Most fist weapons probably fall under the category of Brass/Metallic knuckles, which are illegal Impossible to configure to legal requirements: - Combat Shotguns (Since it has a detachable magazine, it is a "Category 3 assault weapon" in california) - 10mm Pistol, all kinds (>10 round minimum mag size.) - Radium rifle (Radioactive) - Lasers/Plasma/Alien (Probably has output beyond civilian ownership, they'd find some way to arrest you for it, but most also have "assault weapon" features) Basically any outlier semiautomatic rifle configuration would break one or more of the "assault weapon" characteristics. Essentially a long winded yes, but you'll basically be pigeon holed into using fud guns and blunt force/melee, both of which are valid play styles for a modern Fallout. Fallout 1 & 2, would be much harder and a game like STALKER would likely be nearly impossible.

Nice door at the Castle. The bad part about the Defend the Castle quest is that the enemies spawn inside the Castle.

You are probably my new favorite RU-vid now 1 funny challenge run 2 I enjoy your struggling 3 random cooking segment because

Damn my guy! Absolutely fantastic story telling and a cooking segment in the middle. Muah! Incredible!

A handy way to keep settlers and vendors from stealing your power armor by -not leaving the keys in it- removing the fusion core.

The game does refer to dogmeat by name, either talk to mama Murphy while you rescue them from concord and nick valentine calls him as such when you need to track kellogg's scent, either also changes his name in the hud from dog to dogmeat

I liked and subscribed JUST because instead of a ad break it was a moraly uplifting dialogue ❤️

Damm, I was having a bad day today and your minute of apreciation made me feel much better. Thanks !

You know the laws are bad when it takes 2 weeks of research to get a vague idea of what the rules are.

I'm surprised tire irons are allowed to be carried and not be considered "burglary tools" and combat knives aren't banned for being too long or something. Plus putting spikes into a baseball bat probably violates several California laws too.

this is one of the funniest fallout runs i have ever seen. well played.

I just subscribed because of that little reminder to think of the good things in life no matter how small! That was such a nice note!

So if I'm understanding this video correctly, if I were ever to visit California and aquire a sledgehammer, I would be the most powerful entity in the state?

Gauss rifle is not California compliant, it is legally an assault weapon. Semi auto, takes detachable magazines or it's equivalent, and has a pistol grip. Im calling the ATF, hide.dogmeat

i have never watched you before today, and let me tell you my guy. The bit where you said "think about a nice thing" much needed today. Subscribed.

Thank you for that minute of appreciation. And not an ad

9:30 They actually do! If you meet Mama Murphy with Dogmeat as your companion, she tells you his name

minute of appreciation was needed after a crappy day mate, good vid

If Charl's following California law he can steal as much as he wants as long as it doesn't exceed 950 caps in each instance.

You gotta take the fusion core out of your Power Armour if you want to stop settlers taking it whenever they see a cockroach.

you know what, i appreciate you man this is my first video from you, and the minute of appreciation is unique and made me smile. the good thing that happened to me today, was that i got to drive 7 hours on my motorcycle in hot AZ nothing is better then a ton of wind hitting your face on a ride. appreciate you bud, you got a subscriber.

If you do Fallout 3 but within a tale of two wastelands, you can still have those eat, sleep and drink needs through New Vegas' survival mechanics. It really is the best way to experience that game honestly.

I actually took that minute of appreciation seriously. Not many people online anywhere have reminded me to do such a thing, and I thank you for it.

thanks for that minute of appreciation. i was able to appreciate that today, my wii remote arrived and i got to play one of my favorite wii games for the first time in about 5 or 6 years

14:05 this one's funny. Fallout 4 has a bug where sometimes, if you touch a car, you die. That's it. You just sometimes die while touching cars. 18:20 Yup. Very common LOD loading bug.

honestly one of the best videos I've watched in a long time

I'm not going to lie, I'm new to this channel and the cooking section was so jarring. I thought auto play had changed my video for a moment. Absolutely worth as it got my attention to see my poor CA compliant citizen make himself a delicious sandwich I'm definitely not stealing the recipe for as I type this. Subbed

Gun owner in CA here, theres a reason I only shoot vintages lol

I’ll be sure to show the judge this video! Thanks again my favorite attorney 🙏

I hate when people call them "high capacity" magazines when they're literally just standard capacity.

13:44 "the next nearest vendor that sells weapons is in covenant" bro completely forgot about drumlin diner

Amazing how easily you can tell exactly which people heve never talked to Mama Murphy in Concord. For anyone out there that's never bothered to roleplay in this rollplaying game and just rushed to the power armour, she tells you Dogmeat's name, and it changes in game once you've had the conversation.

This has got to be one of the most genius play through I’ve ever seen.

Mitten was man. Mitten is now a Legend forever more. Never forget the man. Great video.

I am so proud to see you become the greatest warrior California can legally field.

the minute of appreciation was amazing. earned my subscription