Originally Posted by
Eurodriver
You guys are lucky.
You want confusion? Move to Hawaii.
High Capacity Pistol Magazines are banned. No grandfathering either. They're illegal. Period.
The law says "any magazine that is capable of being used in a pistol".
We all know there are AR15 pistols, and 10/22 pistols, and all sorts of other pistols.
However these are all banned in Hawaii under its "Assault Pistols" law.
So do the high capacity magazine laws apply or not? Technically a 30rd AR magazine can be used in a pistol. However, the pistols that use them are illegal in this state.
District Attorneys for most of the islands except Oahu have stated they will not prosecute someone using a high capacity magazine in a rifle but I don't live on those islands and I wouldn't take their word for it anyway.
To make it even more confusing, some gun stores sell 30rd mags, others won't.