Magazine capacity vis-à-vis caliber

[Wolfsbane]

We really need to start doing what the Canadians are doing to get around their magazine size bans. Canadians are buying .458 SOCOM magazines for their AR15 and shocklingly using them for their .223 ARs.

US Manufacturers need to start marking their round capacity based on the biggest round that will fit in them, the .458 SOCOM for AR magazines. Hey if more .223 happen to fit in them, well it's that a surprise. We never thought people would do that.

According to the Wikipedia citation for the cartridge. A standard 20-round 5.56mm NATO magazine can hold seven .458 SOCOM rounds and a standard 30-round 5.56mm NATO magazine can hold ten .458 SOCOM rounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.458_SOCOM

Perhaps we should get an email campaign going to magazine manufacturers asking them to label their AR15 magazines based on the assumption that .458 SOCOM is the standard cartridge.

And start selling the $10 .458SOCOM 'we don't recommend you try firing any rounds from this' barrel for your collection for propriety's sake..

 

[Jim K]

All the laws I have seen regulating magazine capacity are based on the number of rounds the magazine will hold when installed in a gun, not how many it might hold of some other caliber or what it is marked. I am reasonably sure a court would take the same view. If the limit were otherwise, it could be used to ban almost all magazines; a 7 round 1911 magazine with the spring and follower removed will hold a lot of .22 BB caps, so it would be over a 10 round limit

Jim

 

[Devonai]

Where would this work-around be useful? Not in MA, CT, or NY.

 

[gbran]

Each state would rapidly pass a new law to close this work-around.

 

[HankB]

Old news.

During the Clinton AWB, quite a few folks with certain brands of 9mmP handguns were purchasing 10 round .40 S&W mags.

 

[JSH1]

Where would this work-around be useful? Not in MA, CT, or NY.

Nowhere in the USA.

 

[Frank Ettin]

There's no where for this to go, and subterfuge and sham don't get one anywhere in court.