Hi caps deadline?

[drf]

I am farely new to this forum and am trying to learn as much as possible about the legalities surrounding our right to bare arms and other laws pertaining to guns in general. Thanks for all of the great information
My question is could someone fill me in on what is going on regarding Hi cap magazines for pistols?drf

 

[Mulliga]

Basically, the AWB bans hi-cap mags.

http://www.awbansunset.com/whatis.html

Pre-ban magazines can still be had for most guns, however, especially common handguns.

Hopefully, when the ban sunsets, the production of new mags will begin again. I'll get my Sprinfield XD when/if it happens.

 

[Deavis]

Two things to remember

1) When you "bare arms" make sure they are tan, otherwise it makes you look silly.

2) They aren't high capacity magazines, they are normal capacity magazines.

 

[Quartus]

Yeah, pasty white biceps just are NOT macho.

But not as bad as skinny white legs!






drf, welcome aboard and expect to get ribbed. It's what we do.


The reason some of us insist on calling them "normal capacity" is because liberals have done a lot of damage to us with their word games. Best defense is to refuse to play.

 

[7.62FullMetalJacket]

I lkie "standard" capacity, or "mainstream" capacity, or "design" capacity, but "normal" capacity also feels good.

 

[gunsmith]

heheheheh

I lkie "standard" capacity

So called "hi cap" mags are standard capacity, most new guns come with ten round but if you are a cop you can buy LEO only mags that come with more then ten.
Or you can buy one of the millions "pre ban" mags, but dont.
God willing the AWB will sunset and you can buy (should buy) all the mags and guns you can afford because pro gun Republicans are becoming scarce and the GOP is trying to out liberal the Dem party. In other words,stock up while you can because soon the party will be over and if you do not own one you wont be able to buy it.

 

[M1911Owner]

Hey gunsmith, you're just a pessimist because you live in San Francisco! I spent some time recently in San Diego, and man is it different. You go into Boarder's Books there, and the table right inside the door is covered with books by Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage (no endorsement implied), David Limbaugh, and so forth. Totally the opposite of Palo Alto, where (at the time) you were assaulted by piles and piles and piles of Hillary Clinton's fiction novel, Micheal Moore, and that ilk.

It's better in the rest of the country. Really!

 

[7.62FullMetalJacket]

M1911 Owner

You ought to cross a real border. Hitlary's and Moore's books here don't even sell on the clearance table. One local bookstore (non-chain) does not even carry the tripe because it DOES NOT SELL in the flyover states.

 

[GigaBuist]

drf,

Here's the skinny.

Sept 13 1994 brought the "Assault Weapons Ban" which limited a bunch of silly things for sale in the market place.

One of the stipulations was that the manufacture of magazines that held more than 10 rounds (unless only sold to Law Enforcement or Military) was illegal. Ownership is not illegal. Now, ownership of something designated LE only or Military only might be illegal. I'm not sure and I'm not going there personally.

Providing Congress, the Senate, and the President don't all get together and renew the AWB on Sept 14, 2004 (I beleive just after midnight of Sept 13) manufacture and sale of normal capacity magazines (what some call hi-cap) resumes again. Blood will not flow forth into the streets and logic will prevail. We hope.

It's still perfectly legal to go out and buy overpriced magazines that hold more than 10 rounds though. Now, howh do you determine if it was made before 1994? Well, you pretty much can't. If it says "Law Enforcement Only" on it -- don't touch it. That's shakey ground and might just be entirely illegal. I don't know.

It's also prefectly legal take a magazine for one gun and shove it into another gun -- provided that it still works in the original gun! You can modify a Beretta 92F 15 round magazine to work in a Springfield XD9 I hear. So long as it still works in a Beretta that's legal. You can take a stock Springfield XD40 magazine and load 15 9mm rounds into it and shove it into the XD9 too with no modifications. Still prefectly legal.

If you own pre-AWB magazines and they are damaged you are permitted to buy repacement parts for them also. How you prove you had a pre-1994 magazine, I don't know; but, according to information from the ATF that's been relayed onto here, it's legal.

Oddly enough, Dianne Feinstein's pet "evil guns" the AK-47 and Uzi probably have the cheapest 30 round magazines on the market because there's millions of them floating around.