How Does One Tell the Date of Manufacture of a Magazine

[MagnumDweeb]

I hate to bring this up. But how do I tell when my magazine was made. I keep thinking, criminals will just order replacement parts for high-capacity magazines and build their own magazines. It's what a soddering gun, some epoxy, a set of handfiles, maybe a dremel and your done in a few hours of work. Will there be a grace window where we can all hand over our mags for date stamping and recording.

I just don't get how they are going to make the next ban work without seizing all mags over 10 rounds.

 

[LNK]

Well, if you currently own them, they are pre-ban (except in some locales). There is currently no national ban. Unless they want to pass a ban retro-actively, I don't see what the problem is. I don't know anyone that would turn in magazines for stamping. Seems a bit ridiculous at this point. Don't go getting paranoid at this time, and don't panic.

LNK

 

[jmr40]

Magazines holdiing more than 10 rounds made between the 1994-2004 AWB had "LE and Military use only" stamped on the magazine. After the ban expired they were legal for anyone to own that did not live in a state with a state ban. Anything made prior to the ban had nothing on it and were legal as well. Other than that it is hard to tell exactly when any were made. Glock and some others have had some design changes which help get an idea of when they were made.

Since the ban expired there has been nothing printed on magazines to tell when they were made.

During the ban there was absloltely no shortage of +10 round magazines for guns that had been in production for a while and it would have been easy to replace springs every few years and keep them working for several lifetimes.

Guns such as the Glock 21, 22, 23, and 20 which were introduced shortly before the ban were hard to find large cap. mags for. If you owned a Beretta, Ruger, Sig, or S&W in 9mm or an AR magazines were easy to obtain. Prices were high, but they were available.

 

[USAF_Vet]

Here is a slightly related question.

If there is a magazine ban, how can it be enforced? What can the government really do if manufacturers simply defy the new law and continue to produce, distribute and sell magazines? That sort if civil disobedience would be a force to be reckoned with. And on another similar note, what would happen to the magazines already made, sitting in distribution warehouses and store shelves?

 

[Mk VII]

Large quantities will be made now, stockpiled and sold at eye-watering prices (if it remains legal to sell pre-ban ones at all).
As for defying the law - are manufacturers really in business to go to jail and get themselves shut down?

 

[gearhead]

Here is a slightly related question.

If there is a magazine ban, how can it be enforced? What can the government really do if manufacturers simply defy the new law and continue to produce, distribute and sell magazines? That sort if civil disobedience would be a force to be reckoned with. And on another similar note, what would happen to the magazines already made, sitting in distribution warehouses and store shelves?

Well, since a firearms manufacturer has to have a Manufacturer's FFL to do business they really aren't in a position to violate federal firearms law.

 

[fatcat4620]

I bet the CNC, stamping, and injection molding machines that used to shut down at night won't stop running for months.

 

[Texan Scott]

They won't ... last time they ran 24/7 for a year before the ban. There never was a time in ten years you couldn't get hicaps if you wanted to pay the sticker price. >.<

Also, a lot of that money eventually found its way to gun lobbies. The Dems rued that one.

 

[fatcat4620]

On top of that there are X number more machines to run. They could prob make a few million ar mags in just a month. How many ar lowers can they make?

 

[Onmilo]

There is no way .gov could seize all the magazines in existence.
What they will likely do is create a law making possession of the magazines a criminal offense.
In simple terms, if you get caught with the magazines you just go from law abiding citizen to instant criminal.
Nice eh...

 

[Twiki357]

To create a magazine ban, they would almost have to make possession a crime. There's no way that all the existing magazines could be accounted for. And even if they could figure out a way to "Collect" any of the existing ones or to prohibit any new ones, it would just create another product for the mexican cartels to smuggle into the US from Europe and China. A supply source that really didn't readily exist with the 1994 ban.