Plastic mag limiters

[Sharps '63]

Are those PMAG plastic limiters a legal way of limiting the capacity of rifle magazines?

I see on the net that many jurisdictions that restrict capacity to 5 rds accept this as a legal means of limiting capacity, like the 5 rd clips for the M1 Garand were required.

It would put the onus on the user to ensure that the device is in place, like the limiters on the SKS rifles.

 

[Armedsask]

If they just pop inside then no. You have to mechanically destroy the limiter for it to be legal. Breaking welds, drilling rivets, etc.

 

[P0WERWAGON]

if you install it and then epoxy the floor plate to the mag, then they are legal.

 

[C77]

(4) A cartridge magazine described in subsection (1) that has been altered or re-manufactured so that it is not capable of containing more than five or ten cartridges, as the case may be, of the type for which it was originally designed is not a prohibited device as prescribed by that subsection if the modification to the magazine cannot be easily removed and the magazine cannot be easily further altered so that it is so capable of containing more than five or ten cartridges, as the case may be.
(5) For the purposes of subsection (4), altering or re-manufacturing a cartridge magazine includes
(a) the indentation of its casing by forging, casting, swaging or impressing;
(b) in the case of a cartridge magazine with a steel or aluminum casing, the insertion and attachment of a plug, sleeve, rod, pin, flange or similar device, made of steel or aluminum, as the case may be, or of a similar material, to the inner surface of its casing by welding, brazing or any other similar method; or
(c) in the case of a cartridge magazine with a casing made of a material other than steel or aluminum, the attachment of a plug, sleeve, rod, pin, flange or similar device, made of steel or of a material similar to that of the magazine casing, to the inner surface of its casing by welding, brazing or any other similar method or by applying a permanent adhesive substance, such as a cement or an epoxy or other glue.

 

[D 23]

This is what I got in regards to 5 round limiters in the 20 round pmags.

This product does Not make PMAG 20 magazines legal in jurisdictions where magazines with a capacity of 20 rounds are prohibited.

 

[P0WERWAGON]

This product does Not make PMAG 20 magazines legal in jurisdictions where magazines with a capacity of 20 rounds are prohibited.

that is legalese for the US, does not apply to canada. the original intent of the limiters is for hunting where a 5round mag is required. nothing to do with legal limits anywhere else.

 

[Chuckbuster]

Limiters came up during the M&P15-22 mag debacle a couple of years ago. As others have said, they are ot legal unless they are somehow permanently attached to the mag.

Mag capacity limits are stupid.

 

[P0WERWAGON]

please read again, if it is limited internally and permanently, then they are legal.

 

[D 23]

that is legalese for the US, does not apply to canada. the original intent of the limiters is for hunting where a 5round mag is required. nothing to do with legal limits anywhere else.

I suppose if you glued them in they would be OK.

My DPMS metal mags have glued in plastic limiters from the manufacturer so it's the same same....