Modifying Magazines to Limit Capacity

[ChadAmberg]

It is a discussion how someone could be in compliance with the letter of the law.

Lets take a different example.

Lets say a person has a certain amount of Magpul 308 AR mags. But as there were not a lot available before the ban, the person doesnt have "enough" of them (i mean who every has "enough" mags?). So the option is to get a 10 round mag. But the person wants as many round as possible. So a solution is buy a 20 rounder (with the molding date on it) and then block off 5 round permanently. Then the person has a legal 15 round magazine.

But how does one "permanently modify it" and how would one go about legally acquiring the parts to make a legal magazine from a higher capacity magazine. The 20 round mag is not legal to transfer until it is a 15 round magazine. So by the letter of law it seems the only way to do it would to not buy a magazine but to buy components, modify the components, and then assemble to complete magazine into a 15 round magazine.

I guess some of the question is what do people do to comply if they want to buy magazines that were manufacturer after the ban? Or maybe someone buys a gun for which the manufacturer did not the gun/magazines before 2013?

Think of it this way: The law is poorly written. To answer your question, it would have to have been specified in the law that "Pouring hot glue up to a certain point is acceptable, as is rivets, etc." Instead, it doesn't say anything about it.

So whatever your solution is, it just has to be reasonable to the Game Warden/Police/Prosecutor/Judge and Jury. So, really it's an impossible question to answer. Because reasonable to me is "the existing spring is enough to limit a 100 round mag to 15 rounds because the more you put in the tougher it gets" and to a shitbag gun banner like Polis it's something completely different.

[def90]

, didn’t we have a thread a few years ago from a member here that had a Denver PD officer try to confiscate some +15 round magazines while the member was using the range at Cherry Creek ?

I have no recollection of anything like this ever happening.

[spqrzilla]

So much fail.

[DDT951]

So much fail.

Why?

[Great-Kazoo]

Can't believe this is still going on.

Here, a quick web search would have sent you to this web site, among 2 others. Spend the $16 for a 3 pack and call it done.

https://www.magazineblocks.com/magento/

[bellavite1]

So, in order to travel through Denver without issues I limited some PMAGS 20 rounders to 15, with those magazine blocks.
Well, they have just too much tension now and, loading them to 15, I cannot charge the handle and they do not drop free.
Since I am an idiot I already PERMANENTLY attached the floor plates with Loctite.
Maybe a little too permanently...
How can I remove the Loctite to dissassemble the mags and shave just enough from the magblock for correct function?

[ChickNorris]

Not to be flippant but I'd sort the issue by buying new. Why bother futzing.

[20X11]

Denvers mag rules do not apply to persons " traveling through"...only to residents.

[bellavite1]

Not to be flippant but I'd sort the issue by buying new. Why bother futzing.

Because it pisses my off to throw $60 away like that because of my idiocy...

[ChickNorris]

Denvers mag rules do not apply to persons " traveling through"...only to residents.

Exactly. Unless you aim to misbehave....