Hi-Cap Magazines in New Jersey

[FPrice]

If what I have read is correct, pistol/rifle magazines up to 15 rounds are legal in New Jersey. Are there any (other) restrictions on who may possess these magazines. Can they be shipped to New Jersey legally?

Thanks.

 

[Sam Adams]

As a former resident of the PRNJ, I can tell you that anything that holds 15 or less rounds is OK. To my knowledge, there are no restrictions on who can own them. You can have them shipped into NJ, provided that you find someone willing to do so - many companies refuse to ship mags to NJ that are even close to the limit, on the theory that if you can jam a 16th round into it then they will also get into legal trouble.

Of course, if you were like me and didn't see anything intrinsically wrong with owning a stamped metal box with a spring inside of it, then you'd go to a Pennsylvania or NY gunshow and buy whatever the F you wanted to, for cash. I did it, and when I left NJ I had about 200 years of prison sitting 3 feet behind me in the car.

NJ sucks, and it isn't getting any better. I grieve for my homestate, which used to be a haven from the liberal Hellhole of NYC. Now it is just a suburban subsidiary of NYC liberalism.

 

[FPrice]

Sam...

"Of course, if you were like me and didn't see anything intrinsically wrong with owning a stamped metal box with a spring inside of it,"

In this respect I am like you. However, I am not quite ready (yet) to be a test case for something like this.

 

[geekWithA.45]

15 rounds or less, completely unrestricted, ship them as you see fit.
16 rounds or more, banned, even for cops

Get out of jail free: Mags may be temporarily or permanently blocked with a pin, dowel, weld, etc so as to comply with the mag limit.

.....14 days till the great escape....

 

[Sam Adams]

Geek,

Good luck with the Great Escape. Remember to pack your mags out of view of the Stormtroopers, in case they nab you on the way out.

Where are you escaping to?

 

[PATH]

15 is the magic number in Jersey. They will nail you for anything greater. Best thing to do is keep fighting. I don't know what good it will do but Jerseyans must keep fighting.

 

[Highland Ranger]

15 round pre-ban magazines are GRANDFATHERED. New ones are illegal like everywhere else I guess.

Anything over 15 regardless of when made is illegal.

 

[geekWithA.45]

Highland Ranger:

I'm pretty sure there were no grandfathered mags. Evan Nappen mentioned in his book that overnight, it made one of the hicap glocks illegal, as there were no mags for it <=15 rounds until a few years later when the federal ban came along and provided Gaston & the boys with a motivation to make them.

 

[Highland Ranger]

I'll grab the book tomorrow when I look it up but my understanding was that if you had a "hi-cap" handgun with 15 rounds or less before the ban you were ok.

If it was 15 or more it was not grandfathered and made illegal by the NJ Law.

In any case for new equipment, 10 rounds or less (federal and I believe redundant NJ law.)

Which brings up a good point, since we have our own laws, will we be able to buy 18 round wonder 9's come the sunset or does NJ law still apply?

(I probably should already know that . . . . going to get Nappen's book, I'll check in tomorrow.)

 

[geekWithA.45]

State laws still apply after the federal AWB sunsets, they're separate.

 

[Highland Ranger]

geekWithA.45 - Large capacity mags page 259 of Nappen II

Just reread your post and I think we are saying the same thing. Basically the federal AWB grandfathers anything before the ban irrespective of capacity.

The NJ AWB only grandfathers mags of 15 or less. So the 18 round Glock mags are illegal no matter when they were made.

And yes, realize they were separate laws, was hoping that somehow the NJ law was linked to the federal law sunset wise.

Sigh.