New "Replacement" magazines

[No4Mk1*]

After reading the '94 law, it appears that it is legal to replace old pre-ban magazines with newly manufactured "pre-ban" magazines. I am aware that Glock does this if you send them a damaged magazine. What is stopping a firearm manufacturer from buying up all of USA's stock of cheap magazines and then manufacturing factory magazines as replacements to be sold with pistols? The company would have to spend about $10-15max for each magazine, and then they would be able to put out new, but still legally pre-ban magazines. If someone could post the link to the BATF document, I lost it.

The USA website is no longer listing any pre-bans. I doubt they just ran out all of a sudden, so maybe...


[This message has been edited by No4Mk1* (edited April 13, 2000).]

 

[johnwill]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by No4Mk1*:
After reading the '94 law, it appears that it is legal to replace old pre-ban magazines with newly manufactured "pre-ban" magazines. I am aware that Glock does this if you send them a damaged magazine
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I've heard people talk about buying something like an M1 Carbine magazine, then "rebuilding" it into a hi-cap for some pistol and smashing the carbine magazine. People claim this is legal under the 1994 Crime Bill, since you don't end up with any more hi-cap magazines. Personally, I think you're skating on thin ice with these kinds of tricks, but YMMV.