bad timing

[DEPDAVE]

Not too long ago I purchased a Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm pistol with a 18 round magazine. Our people in our state capitol are working on a bill to make anything over 10 rounds illegal. Price for 10 round magazines is skyrocketing. Any ideas around this situation ? Stuff it with BS to 10 round level ?

 

[murphydog]

It depends on how any future law is structured. It may allow "grandfathering", permanent conversion of standard to restricted capacity magazines (note carefully the terminology used here ), or you have to get rid of all your current ones and buy factory built 10 rounders.

Better still, write your state representatives and stop this foolishness.

 

[Lindy]

18 round? Do you mean 17?

Anyhow I just bought a few from here..

Smith & Wesson S&W M&P 9mm 10-Round Factory Magazine

Not a bad price because I have seen higher. My LGS charges $40.

I bought two of them just in case. I live in MO, and I doubt a state law would ever pass here. I am worried about a federal knee jerk re-action with some kind of 10 round mag for all guns period being passed. If that goes down, you will not be able to get these mags for a year or more as everyone will want lots and lots of them. I figure buying two now would allow me to use my two M&P FS 2.0's until I could actually get more at a slightly insane price.

 

[Lindy]

It depends on how any future law is structured. It may allow "grandfathering", permanent conversion of standard to restricted capacity magazines (note carefully the terminology used here ), or you have to get rid of all your current ones and buy factory built 10 rounders.

Better still, write your state representatives and stop this foolishness.

I believe at some point there will be a 10 round federal mag limit on AR15's/scary looking list of semi-auto rifles. Those rifles will also probably get banned.

I do hope any law is well into the future and that it has a grandfather clause for both the weapons and the standard capacity magazines.

If things get really bad I suspect this will also impact semi-auto pistols as well.

 

[JNewell]

No one can predict the future, but I have difficulty seeing a federal ban on "high capacity" magazines being retroactive (i.e., not grandfathering current magazines). The 1994 federal AWB 10-round limit applied to all removable magazines for semi-automatic firearms, not just AR-15 rifles.

What happened in the run-up to the 1994 AWB is that demand for standard capacity magazines skyrocketed and many poorly-functioning magazines were rushed to the market by third party manufacturers in an attempt to take advantage of the demand. Many, maybe most, of those were garbage.

 

[DEPDAVE]

wish there was a chance, they are not the type to listen.

 

[DEPDAVE]

your idea sounds like a good plan

 

[murphydog]

wish there was a chance, they are not the type to listen.

Sorry but not surprised to hear this. Escaping to a free state (as I did 14 years ago) is still a good option.