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Thread: Guys in ban states, tell me about mags in your state

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    Quote Originally Posted by 30 cal slut View Post
    In MA, you can get a Class A non-resident license to carry, the mag ban does not seem to apply to non-residents for handgun mags, provided the non-resident has the proper license.
    Are you sure about that? I am a MA resident and I know that non-residents get some waivers on some of the stuff, such as bringing certain non-MA compliant weapons in the state but I thought the magazine law was pretty much all the way across the board with the exceptions being for LEO's.

    As for what I do for mags, anything with a date stamp on that is after the ban I stay away from. Also, anything that someone should reasonably know was manufactured after the ban I stay away from. An example of this would be say a 6.8 SPC magazine. Even if it does not have a date on it, 6.8 SPC magazines were not being produced prior to the ban date.

    I take the mags and strip them down. I then clean and inspect the parts. I scuff them up and spray them with some spray can truck bed liner to give them a surface I can get some grip on. I replace the follower with a Magpul follower and the bottom plate with a ranger plate. I then run a full mags through them to make sure there are no issues.

    The best sources are to find them online, in or out of state. Forget buying them from a local gun shop because in MA they all pretty much suck.

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    DMR pretty much nailed it if you ask me.

    I dont see the need to buy pre ban mags at 30$ to 60$ a pop. I just built all my rifles on pre ban lowers and run 13$ Pmags or free GI mags. If its pre ban there are no worries.

    As far as price goes I live in the Rochester area and I have seen guys pay upwards of 60$ for one mag and if is is COLT OMG 100$ easy. It's crazy, most shops wont even sell the mags as its like DMR stated a gray area no one realy knows for some reason.

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    Glad I live in Texas!

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    A lot of good info here so I will just get to the prices I see and pay.

    I just picked up some new/unused not in wrapper 30rd colts for $15 shipped each.

    I never pay more than $20 even though a lot of people that live in NY try to sell them for that.

    If you wanna be a good guy (which we know you are) try to sell them to different people so everyone gets a chance instead of one person hoarding the whole lot. For a price around $10 (cheap) to around $18 plus shipping. Price them so whoever is buying isn't buying to resell them.

    I see it all the time when I'm trying to score a couple, one guy usually takes the whole lot then ends up selling them for more down the road.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ICANHITHIMMAN View Post
    I dont see the need to buy pre ban mags at 30$ to 60$ a pop. I just built all my rifles on pre ban lowers and run 13$ Pmags or free GI mags. If its pre ban there are no worries.
    If you are thinking a pre~ban receiver allows you to use a post ban magazine legally in NYS, you are incorrect.
    They are seperate entities covered under thier own description and section in the penal law.

    It is a class D felony to manufacture, transport, dispose of, or possess a large capacity ammunition feeding device, which N.Y. Penal Law § 265.00(23) defines as "a magazine, belt, drum, feed strip, or similar device" manufactured after September 13, 1994, "that has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or converted to accept, more than ten rounds of ammunition. One exception to this is a magazine that was manufactured before September 13, 1994. Another exception is an "attached tubular device designed to accept, and capable of operating only with .22 caliber rimfire ammunition". This means a tube similar to the magazine on a shotgun but on a .22 rimfire firearm.

    A post ban mag in any receiver regardless of that receiver being pre ban is a felony as is possession of a post 94 high cap mag
    without even having a rifle to put it in.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GTifosi View Post
    If you are thinking a pre~ban receiver allows you to use a post ban magazine legally in NYS, you are incorrect.
    They are seperate entities covered under thier own description and section in the penal law.

    It is a class D felony to manufacture, transport, dispose of, or possess a large capacity ammunition feeding device, which N.Y. Penal Law § 265.00(23) defines as "a magazine, belt, drum, feed strip, or similar device" manufactured after September 13, 1994, "that has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or converted to accept, more than ten rounds of ammunition. One exception to this is a magazine that was manufactured before September 13, 1994. Another exception is an "attached tubular device designed to accept, and capable of operating only with .22 caliber rimfire ammunition". This means a tube similar to the magazine on a shotgun but on a .22 rimfire firearm.

    A post ban mag in any receiver regardless of that receiver being pre ban is a felony as is possession of a post 94 high cap mag
    without even having a rifle to put it in.
    Works the same way here in MA - I thought that seemed a little off. Possession of a magazine over 10-rounds manufactured after 1994 is a felony here as well...

    As to hoarding then marking up, I eliminated that by linking buyers to sellers and limited lots to 10...It worked out pretty well.

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    Well your right I'm wrong thanks for telling me
    Last edited by ICANHITHIMMAN; 05-20-11 at 21:25.

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    Clickme to jump to the NYS penal law online directly to section 265.

    265.00, section (definitions #23) and 265.02 (criminal possession) are what you are after AFA NYS.
    Last edited by GTifosi; 05-20-11 at 21:28. Reason: clarifying info

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    Quote Originally Posted by ICANHITHIMMAN View Post
    Well your right I'm wrong thanks for telling me
    Glad to be of service.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ICANHITHIMMAN View Post
    DMR pretty much nailed it if you ask me.

    I dont see the need to buy pre ban mags at 30$ to 60$ a pop. I just built all my rifles on pre ban lowers and run 13$ Pmags or free GI mags. If its pre ban there are no worries.

    As far as price goes I live in the Rochester area and I have seen guys pay upwards of 60$ for one mag and if is is COLT OMG 100$ easy. It's crazy, most shops wont even sell the mags as its like DMR stated a gray area no one realy knows for some reason.

    Jon
    We hit on this in another thread on the topic. Pre-Ban mags are legal. Post Ban are not. I think my advise at the time was to get them out of the state, unless you're an LEO or in some sort of status with the .mil.

    A Pre-Ban lower allows you to have all those evil fetures like a collapsible stock, but every P-MAG, ect, on hand is a felony, plain and simple, nothing Gray about it.

    The mom and pop shops I have in my area for the most part don't have a real clue as to pre-ban/post ban is. One shop had a Pre-Ban Norinco AK with a Bulgarian poly mag in it in the shop AND a NYS Trooper in some sort of plain cloths assignment. I was talking to the dealer about the AK and he told me it was all Pre-Ban to include the mag. After talking to Templer here I figured out the mag was actualy Post Ban, but is unmarked with a date stamp. The Trooper didn't have a clue. That said if he was to spot it in a traffic stop it might ruin my day.

    LOTS of people takes chances because of bad advise, often recieved at their local gun shop.
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