Did you know? 14 ROUNDS LEGAL

Interesting...
So my STI 40 mags have no stampings or labels on them, I just know they are for my 40.
So I stuff them full of 9mm and head out to the range with a 9mm STI to enjoy a day of shooting...
Exactly how would one defend his position to a questioning LEO should the issue arise?
In some cases I'm thinking you'd potentially be in a world of sh#t.
Labelled mags, fair enough.
 
I am no Lawyer, so trying to decifer the Criminal code part is very difficult. But for what I can gather,10 for handguns is max for legality. You can try and argue the point with the cop(s) and explain your point from the back of their car, that is entirely upto you, but I think I will play safe and keep it to a limit of 10 rds. I am talking strictly centerfire rds,not rim fire. So the choice is upto you of how you all want to play, I like the KISS way "keep it simple stuipid" Less hassle is fine with me!!!
 
This has been known for a while with the Glocks and the people I know have been quiet about it. Yes, it may work to our advantage in hi cap mag laws but it could also work against in the end. If anti gun people get to know this it could become a liberals tool to get rid of some handgun models or handguns become prohib or worse banned. Whether its legal or not I think its kind of a grey area since the laws state 10 round max.if I was ever to put a .40 mag into a 9mm gun I wouldn't go showing everyone.
 
I keep a copy of that letter in my "paperwork book" that is in my range bag. Funny I showed it to a number of people that still refuse to believe it.
 
JesseJamesB said:
I think I will play safe and keep it to a limit of 10 rds. I am talking strictly centerfire rds,not rim fire.
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You do realize that the 10 round pistol mag capacity law counts for both ceterfire and rimfire right? The rimfire exemption is only for rim fire, semi auto rifles.
 
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I don't mind the 10 limit - it forces me to practice reloads, and slows the pace at which money pours profusely out of my wallet...
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Training views aside, I don't like the law itself.


I didn't write it and no one seriously consulted either with me or anyone else in the shooting community.

For that reason alone I love to see it tatters to pieces. The whole process was a sham and its mockery is well deserved.
 
I'm just wondering how the mag limit thing could be legitimately struck out of law altogether. Or is this one of those things we will never see without a majority or a province (Alberta) taking the balls to tell Ottawa to STFU.
 
I have known this for a long while. I have called and emailed the RCMP in Ottawa regarding this very issue as at one time as I was trying to bring in a CZ 58 pistol that I seen in Switzerland so that I could legally import CZ 858 10 rd. pistol mags to use in my rifle for 3 gun. I felt at the time the CZ platform was cheaper, just as reliable and had cheap ammo available. In the end it turned out to be much more of an investment than I was willing to make. When I contacted them, the RCMP informed me,

“Any cartridge magazine for a handgun that will hold not more than ten cartridges "of the kind or type for which the magazine was designed"; is acceptable as a ten shot magazine in the calibre for which it was designed. Once deemed to be suitable its further use in any other calibre is not regulated. You may be called-on to prove it to be a ten shot 40 S&W calibre magazine though. This situation has occurred before with the H&K P7 M10 magazines.”

Basically, if it is a marked 10 shot .40 S & W and you use it for another purpose, say for 9mm rds and it hold 14 you are perfectly legal, however; it must be marked from the factory .40 S & W. If not, how would you prove it was a .40 mag and in addition it must be able to hold 10 rounds of .40 S& W ammo.

Moike
 
Please list all .40S&W mags than can be fully loaded with 9x19 and function flawlessly.

I only ever tried this with Glock22 mags and the results were terrible; at around 7 rounds the mag would vomit out all but a few of the cartridges.
 
G37 said:
Please list all .40S&W mags than can be fully loaded with 9x19 and function flawlessly.

I only ever tried this with Glock22 mags and the results were terrible; at around 7 rounds the mag would vomit out all but a few of the cartridges.
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The ones I've tried with perfect success have been mags for the Beretta 96 (in the 92), Glock 22 (in the 17), Glock 23 (in the 19) & Sig P226 (40 in the 9)

Jeff.
 
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