Unlike guns, no "crime" if you remove date on magazine?

[iquack08]

This is just a question and hypothetical.

If you scrap off the serial number on a gun, that is a crime by statute. If you scrap off the date on a 30-round magazine purchased outside of CO after July 1, there doesn't seem to a statute making that act a crime. Having a new 30-round magazine after July 1 is a crime, but the burden is on the prosecution to prove it. So, if you buy a Gen M2 or M3, there's pretty much no way the prosecution can prove it. It's another story if you buy a future Gen M4+.

Anybody disagree?

[def90]

If they seize all your mags and maybe even your gun, what does it matter at that point? How much money are you going to spend to try to get them back?

Also a removed production date stamp may be just enough to claim probable cause..

[TFOGGER]

See "conspiracy to commit a crime" and 'obstruction of justice". I'm pretty sure that IF you generate that much attention from law enforcement, they'll be able to find something to charge you with.

[Lippy Laroux]

Whoever runs against the Dems next election can boost their chances by vowing to repeal all these Infringing unconstitutional laws.

[Jmetz]

I actually do have some mags that have the date sanded off/down when they were sanded to help drop free.

[Rucker61]

I actually do have some mags that have the date sanded off/down when they were sanded to help drop free.

I just bought a bunch in a box on Sunday, March 17, 2013, from a guy the same way. A mixed bag of pmags, all kinds, that he'd sanded the date codes off of. No bill of sale, so I'll have to refer the cops to this post in the future.

[mtnhack]

I actually do have some mags that have the date sanded off/down when they were sanded to help drop free.

Well you had better get them notorized before 7/1/13. Just one more reason this is a total

[Danimal]

I have some cheap steel mags that have no date on them and never has had one. I traded for a couple pmags a while back that had been painted then sanded so that the relieved portion of the mag was a different color than the body. They look cool but I can not read the date at all. I can see where it is supposed to be but it is disfigured to the point where I cant certifiably prove what it says. I guess that it doesn't matter that much, I am moving in a year to someplace a little more gun friendly.

[DHCO]

It is not illegal to grind the date stamp off as far as I know and I highly doubt it would be since there is no law requiring magazines to be serialized or dated unless now produced in Colorado

[osok-308]

Just take a picture of a ton of pmags, or other mags with the date attached. That's what I did. If the date is sanded off for drop free reasons, they'll see the picture and there is proof you had it before. You don't need a serial number on the mag.