HankR
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Yep. And you better hope you don't make an honest mistake and load 8 in a magazine... Just out of curiosity, can you have 7 in the mag and one in the chamber, or is it like 6+1???
According to the part of the law that I read, you can have 7 in the mag. This implies that if you take an 8 round 1911 mag, load 8, insert the mag and drop the slide you have committed a crime. If you load 7 or less, insert the mag, drop the slide, then remove the mag and top it off to 7 (not 8) you are okey-dokey. So, two identical guns in two identical states of charge, one criminally arrived at, the other legit. See, it makes perfect sense.
Just how are they going to know the mag was made before 94?
I think that New York had their own AWB that did not sunset when the 1994 ban did. So, any mag with greater than 10 round capacity made after 1994 is already illegal there. I haven't bought many mags since the boating accident, but suspect that they stopped stamping "for law enforcement only" on them after 2004, so in most of the world it would be hard to prove for certain mags, but in New York it won't matter in a month, any standard cap mag (over 10) will be verboten.