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11/23/2004 2:46:48 PM EDT
I'm from WI and I have a question re the magazine size limit in your state.  Did you guys have to give up your large cap mags when your law went into effect or if you already had em, were they grandfathered in?
11/23/2004 3:32:48 PM EDT
[#1]
I assume your referring to Maryland, as Delaware has no hi-cap laws.  To the best of my understanding(chime in if im wrong) MD law is not retroactive, meaning all hi-caps owned before thier state ban was instituted may stay hi-cap and do not have to be blocked. But if you read MD law its weird, posession of hi-caps after the ban is not illegel, a MD resident may come in to a neighboring state, buy a hi-cap and bring it home. It just cant be sold or shipped to them.
I have friend that lives in NJ and they have to block all their mags.  He told me all that is needed for them to do is insert a wooden dowel inside the mag, so it cant hold more than 15 rds.
Hope this helps
Z
11/24/2004 7:37:10 AM EDT
[#2]
So i can drive the 20 minutes to VA, buy a 30 rounder, bring it into MD and it's legit?



11/24/2004 8:29:43 AM EDT
[#3]

Quoted:
So i can drive the 20 minutes to VA, buy a 30 rounderor a Beta C mag, bring it into MD and it's legit?






Yeeeup.  Great how the local legislators just don't understand guns but make laws regarding them that are goofy as hell, isn't it?
11/24/2004 9:28:53 AM EDT
[#4]
ha!  that is some absolutely asinine legistaltion
11/24/2004 2:42:24 PM EDT
[#5]

Quoted:
So i can drive the 20 minutes to VA, buy a 30 rounder, bring it into MD and it's legit?



Yes
11/24/2004 3:21:07 PM EDT
[#6]
So even a person to person shipping of mags wouldnt be allowed?
11/24/2004 5:13:53 PM EDT
[#7]

So even a person to person shipping of mags wouldnt be allowed?



No, That is considered a transfer. The transfer cannot take place within the boundries of MD.

ETA- The answer to the original question is 20rounds magazine limit for any firearm. This does not apply to .22 rifles with tubular magazines.
11/24/2004 6:44:25 PM EDT
[#8]
I meant from out of state. I guess ill just have to find someone in pa to have my mags shipped to. If its illegal to ship them here, because they are obviously watching the mall constantly.
11/29/2004 11:23:06 AM EDT
[#9]
When i lived in not so mary- land i bought mine out of state. The state of maryland just misses out on sales tax revenue  and income tax revenue  ect.  Funneling millions of dollars out of state  a yEAR SMART . And the chances of ccw permits is never looking good  either even with the republican govnr . I left in 1996 best thing i ever did reguardless of the gun laws. The weather sucks  and their is nothing to do there. Unfortantly their are some decent people there including some of my friends.

11/29/2004 11:31:22 AM EDT
[#10]
Dont forget that if you pay for mage with a CC or money order to a place outside of MD, the Mags are your property ad all you are doing is returning your property to MD.
That's a legal loophole.