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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1091505" data-attributes="member: 14668">California has had a ban on the manufacture, sale or import of high-capacity magazines for years.Problem is, it doesnt apply to magazines that you posessed prior to the ban. Those are &quot;grandfathered&quot; in.Since mags dont have serial numbers, it is impossible to determine when they were made. So if you live in CA and want to &quot;convert&quot; your legal 10 round limit mags into high-capacity ones, all you have to do is order a &quot;magazine rebuild kit&quot; which is basically nothing more than a spring and a plastic or sheet-metal follower. The magazine can be disassembled and &quot;rebuilt&quot; into a high-cap version in about 3 minutes, using nothing more than a pair of pliers.The bottom line is this; a magazine is nothing more than a stamped sheet-metal or plastic box with a spring and a follower in it. If criminals want high-capacity mags, they will obtain them on the black market or make them using basic replacement parts. If you can screw in a lightbulb, you can disassemble and reassemble a magazine. Any legal limits on magazine capacity will only be obeyed by law-abiding citizens, and will be easily ignored or bypassed by criminals who dont obey laws in the first place. Bans on hi-cap mags are nothing more than feel-good laws that serve no purpose other than to provide a false sense of security to ignorant people who dont know or understand anything about guns in the first place.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1091505, member: 14668"] California has had a ban on the manufacture, sale or import of high-capacity magazines for years. Problem is, it [I]doesnt[/I] apply to magazines that you posessed prior to the ban. Those are "grandfathered" in. Since mags dont have serial numbers, it is impossible to determine [I]when[/I] they were made. So if you live in CA and want to "convert" your legal 10 round limit mags into high-capacity ones, all you have to do is order a "magazine rebuild kit" which is basically nothing more than a spring and a plastic or sheet-metal follower. The magazine can be disassembled and "rebuilt" into a high-cap version in about 3 minutes, using nothing more than a pair of pliers. The bottom line is this; a magazine is nothing more than a stamped sheet-metal or plastic box with a spring and a follower in it. If criminals want high-capacity mags, they will obtain them on the black market or [I]make[/I] them using basic replacement parts. If you can screw in a lightbulb, you can disassemble and reassemble a magazine. Any legal limits on magazine capacity will [I]only[/I] be obeyed by law-abiding citizens, and will be easily ignored or bypassed by criminals who dont obey laws in the first place. Bans on hi-cap mags are nothing more than feel-good laws that serve no purpose other than to provide a false sense of security to ignorant people who dont know or understand anything about guns in the first place. [/QUOTE]

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