@TFOGGER:

Yes, a Trust can own magazines. And yes, it might be a way to get around the pending ban.

The play would be to put the magazines into the Trust prior to July 1. The Trust then owns the magazines for all eternity. The ownership never changes, hence there is no "transfer" as defined by the new, poorly-written law. I don't remember anything in the law or the definitions section of the law that would define a change of Trustee or the addition of a co-Trustee as a "transfer". Somebody help me out here, I don't have a copy of the law in front of me...

Of course as Mr. Kneecapper will soon point out, how do THEY know what you or I or anyone owns in terms of magazines right now? If I show up at the range in 6 months with my AR-15 and twenty 30-round magazines, how do they prove that I possess those items illegally? Keep in mind that the burden of proof is on the prosecution. I may have purchased them on July 2, 2013 and I may be a complete criminal... or I may have owned them for many, many years. Pursuant to the 5th Amendment, I can refuse to answer the question of when I purchased the items and there's nothing they can do to compel my answer.

I would not want to be the first prosecutor trying to convict somebody based on any of these new laws.

There was a saying in law school that bad facts make for bad laws. I think this was shorthand for the "but we've GOT to do SOMETHING" mentality that we're seeing with gun laws today.

Bad laws.

Rod