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Firearms guidance on buying 10+ magazines private party.

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Elguapo

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I would love a high capacity magazine for my glock 34 and I see a guy on face book selling them. I would hate to get into any shit for a magazine...
Can anyone give me guidance on if it's legal for me to buy a high capacity magazine private party?
Thanks gang
 
In Colorado, Hi-cap mags are completely illegal to sell PERIOD. Ownership is grandfathered into the law for folks that owned them prior to the law.

You can't buy hi-cap mags in this state, nor are you allowed to possess them in this state.

2 years ago, I went to the Tanner gun show and traded a stainless, tactical Mini-14 on another rifle. I had 4 30 rnd mags with it. The vendor said he'd love to have them but legally couldn't touch them. I actually had to be escorted out of the show with the mags and secure them in my car before I could come back in...... apparently they were supposed to have caught that at the door when I entered and had the gun checked. LOL. Now I'm stuck with 4 mags I can't sell because for anyone else, they're illegal. :mad:

You can purchase and posses them in the non hi-cap restricting states, but bringing them into Colorado is your risk.

Mind you....... Hi-cap mags manufactured after the law are required to be date stamped. Pre law hi-cap mags will not have dates. So, there's really no way to prove that you didn't have them prior to the law....... if you dig what I'm saying.

So, if you buy and possess date stamped hi-cap mags in Colorado...... you got no excuse and you're chargeable under the law.


Also buyer beware......... ATF does buy/sell stings using the guise of private party face to face transfers of hi-cap mags. KNOW who you're dealing with if you decide to take that risk.
 
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Troy, help me understand what you said. But first let me preface this by saying: I may or may not own any hi cap magazines for weapons I may or may not have lost in a canoe accident.

You said 'Ownership is grandfathered into the law for folks that owned them prior to the law'.

Then you said 'nor are you allowed to possess them in this state'.

Do you mean that if you didn't own one before, now you can't even possess? But if you were grandfathered in, you can possess?
 
With most sheriff's refusing to enforce these laws it effectively does't matter what you own today. And since there was no program to exchange hi cap or voluntarily surrender them I don't see how they can consider possession a crime. Common sense bottom line is don't buy and sell hi cap mags in Colorado. Take your business/residency to the border states that do not have restrictions if hi cap mags are important to you.
 
I play it safe and do most of my transactions via WY location then yes its a bring it back at your own risk.
Having a friend with a Cheyenne WY address isn't a bad thing at all. I used to hate WY now if it wasn't for the wind I'm liking it more and more. That and they have a menards up there.
 
UnlimitedMatt said:
Do you mean that if you didn't own one before, now you can't even possess? But if you were grandfathered in, you can possess?
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Yes.

BUT the reality is..... very hard to prove and prosecute. The law has very dull teeth.
 
werd. Thank god the popo are on speed dial so that I am forever safe.
 
There's gun shops up north that sell hicap mags right out of their law enforcement section to anyone who walks through the door.

Just go waaay north and pick up some mags from the LE section and take them to the counter and pay for them like you know what you are doing.

For the record I went out and bought $6,000 worth of Glock, SCAR 17, AK47, AR15, MP5, P90, Beretta, etc mags right before the ban took effect.

My wife cringed as I spent our whole tax refund on mags some of which went to stuff I don't even own yet, lol
 
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UnlimitedMatt said:
Not necessarily since you can still walk into a store in Cheyenne and buy them off the shelf. :dunno:
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I'm talking Federal not this silly Colorado thingy that nobody actually obeys anyway.

During the Newtown scare I sold almost everything I had for 4-6x what I had in them. It will happen again and I'll be ready with my own mags to keep and a whole bunch more to sell on Gunbroker.

If Hildabeast becomes president I might see that $6,000 worth of mags pay for a 4BT swap and a set of tons, lol
 
Kuffar762 said:
I'm talking Federal not this silly Colorado thingy that nobody actually obeys anyway.

During the Newtown scare I sold almost everything I had for 4-6x what I had in them. It will happen again and I'll be ready with my own mags to keep and a whole bunch more to sell on Gunbroker.

If Hildabeast becomes president I might see that $6,000 worth of mags pay for a 4BT swap and a set of tons, lol
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Banking on some kind of shooting event to profit on firearms and related gear, not the type of capitalism I like to see.
 
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