a tapco catalog I got has FAL mag bodies for sales, and it states can be shipped anywhere.......I would think that tapco wouldn't be saying that if it wasn't legal to send them to commiefornia, and other places.
I believe that CMMG is just siding on the side of caution, or just doesn't know it is legal. in anycase if he wants to miss out on sales, that's on him.
you could always post WTB mag bodies in the WTB forums.
just doing some figuring on CMMG prices..... and you can save money by buying mag body and then buy the internal kits sepertely, then buying a complete mag.......now if I was in commiefornia........well you figure it out.
as for keeping the mag body you're replacing....now why would you? the purpose of a replacement mag body is to replace the unserviceable one....now why are you going to keep a unservisable part, around the house? once you replace the body, it's still only one mag.....so who is even to know that is a replacement? I believe that CMMG is just a bit too paranoid over this "keep the original body" as proof it's a replacement.
on the other side of the coin... how are they (the state) even going to know how many mags you had in the first place, did you have to register how many mags you had originally before the ban in commiefornia?