The way a 15 round magazine would be legal in California is if I owned the magazine before the ban took place and had it regestered as a high capacity magazine with the state. If I didnt own the 15 round mag before the high capacity ban, its illegal. If I owned the 15 round mag before before the ban but didnt register it, its illegal.
Nope. There is no registration for magazines. None whatsoever.
But sense both of my m1 carbines are in standard ww2 configuration (no bayo lug, solid stock) and I bought them after the high capacity ban, I cannot own or use the 15 round magazines that came with them. I bought the rifles online from a seller out of state, he could not send the magazines to me. As a resident of california I cannot buy a 15 round magazine from another person living in california and I cannot have a 15 round magazine shipped to me from out of state.
You
can own the magazines, and you
can use them with an M1 carbine in stock configuration. This does not create an AW situation. (Your AW situation would arise using a >10 mag with a weapon that has a fixed magazine. Paratrooper version with removable magazines, unregistered = felony. Paratrooper version with fixed magazines <10 rounds, no registration required = legal. Paratrooper with fixed magazines >10 rounds = felony. Paratrooper version, registered = legal.)
As a resident of California, there is no PC that prevents you from acquiring a magazine in any fashion other than importation and manufacturing. The law bans exposing for sale, lending, manufacturing and importing. There is nothing in the law that prohibits you buying, finding, or acquiring in other ways. Further, the law does not bar the
possession of >10 round magazines. If anyone tells you otherwise, ask them to cite you PC.
Actually, fine point of law: the law does not ban
magazines. It bans devices capable of feeding more than 10 rounds of ammunition. A disassembled 15-round M1 Carbine magazine is simply a spring and a couple pieces of sheet metal. It cannot, in that configuration, feed
any ammunition, let alone >10 rounds. Further, there is no constructive possession statute in California for magazine parts - or AW parts, for that matter.
(And, to make things even more interesting, if you were to manufacture or import or whatever a magazine that the law would apply to ... they'd have to prove that you did it within the last 3 years, because that's the statute of limitations.)
If the BATF decided to show up at my door and audit me and saw a few 15 round magazines he would ask for my paperwork that proved that those 15 round magazines are registered. If I had no proof that those 15 round magazines were registered, they would be illegal and I would be thrown in jail. Plain and simple.
Bull. ****.
Sorry, but that's just simply not true.
You need to join Calguns and get the right information.
15 rounders are illegal in california, unless you had the individual magazine regestered or had the entire assult weapon registered.
Again, sorry, no.
There's no registration for magazines whatsoever.
If you believe otherwise, cite me the PC. Or just ask DOJ's firearms bureau.
you need to check your gun laws, what youre typing out doesnt make any sense at all.
Nope. I know California gun laws. You need to review them again, though.
