10 round Turkish magazines l - Are they legal to own without a pump?

[Gatehouse]

There is NO grey zone here.

The mags are regulated by the firearm they were designed for. The 10 round mags are designed for manual action (pump) shotguns. Whatever they happen to fit in and cycle with, is irrelevant. You don't need to own a pump shotgun for your mags to be legal. Just like you don't need to own a LAR-15 pistol for your 10 round LAR-15 mags to be legal.

In the case of the Turkish shotgun mags, there is even a physical feature that separates the ones designed for semi-auto vs. the ones designed for manual guns.

The mags designed for the semi-auto shotguns have a small cutout at the rear of the mag for a spring loaded tab attached to the follower to pop out of in order to activate the last shot bolt hold open (this is a feature common to most of the current Turkish semi-autos).

The mags designed for the manual action pumps do not have the cut out on the back of the mag, and the followers do not have the spring loaded tab.

This is exactly correct. The pump and the semi mags are a different design. They are not the same magazine. And the pump action mags don't always work reliably in a semi for 10 shots anyway- although I haven't done extensive testing. They seem to like only feeding 7-8 rounds . Which is sorta like putting 7-8 2 3/4" shells into a tube magazine shotgun designed for 3 1/2" shells.

 

[geologist]

I just bought a Sinasti 14" pump (same as an Uzkon AS46) so it's 10 round pump action mag dumps for this gunnut!!!!!!!!

If it'll cycle them I'll probably set this new pump up with a cylinder choke and use it for flares, crack flares etc.

 

[geologist]

Exactly right, I have a BR99 and AS46 mags which "theoretically" work perfectly in it. But as posted above do you really want to take a chance to be proven correct in court?

I plan to shoot the Sinasti pump side by side with my 15SA semiauto of course I would never mix up their magazines.

 

[geologist]