Posted: 1/13/2007 8:06:06 AM EDT
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In Ohio, a 32 round magazine would need to be modified to 30 before using........correct? If that is true............ How long does the insert need to be for a reduction of 2 rounds. The spring appears to be about 4 inches when collapsed. Thanks, Lefty. |
| Don't waste you time. The mag doesn't need to be altered. You are legal if you just load no more than 31 rounds in the mag at a time. You can legally use a 75 round unaltered drum magazine, as long as you don't load more than 31 rounds into it and put it into a firearm. |
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Or you could SBR the rifle. Which cost $200 but you could shoot any amount of ammo you want then from any type of magazine, even from a 9mm Beta C. www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=15&t=310460 |
I have not read the law in a while but as I recall the key word is "capable"...which means no matter how many rounds you load into a magazine, it is still capable of holding more than the legal limit. Verify and be careful. |
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Actually, the definition is: E. (E) "Automatic firearm" means any firearm designed or specially adapted to fire a succession of cartridges with a single function of the trigger. "Automatic firearm" also means any semi-automatic firearm designed or specially adapted to fire more than thirty-one cartridges without reloading, other than a firearm chambering only .22 caliber short, long, or long-rifle cartridges. |
| That is what it says and that is what I argued over at 1919a4.com until someone posted a few Ohio Supreme Court rulings on this law a year or so ago that said it was OK to have a magazine with over 31 rounds loaded in it laying next to an empty firearm, as long as the mag wasn't in the gun when the police caught you. The police had arrested someone for having a magazine loaded with more than 31 rounds laying next to a semi-auto rifle and charged the owner with a violation, but he appealed it and the OH Supreme Court ruled in his favor. |
Then all those people who buy the AK drums and BETA-C mags at all the gun shows in Ohio are criminals. Along with the dealers who sell them. |
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Seems to me the question is how do you define "designed or specially adapted." A semi-auto is DESIGNED to feed from whatever magazines are made for it. So if some of the available mags are 32+ capacity, is the firearm itself an automatic weapon? Or does it become such when you "specially adapt" it by inserting a mag? Bottom line, I've never heard of this being enforced. I've had a local cop offer to sell me an SKS with a fixed 40-rnd mag, and then there's the belt-fed guys... Don't worry about it unless you're committing other crimes--it's an add-on charge. |