Yeah Trey, it will be a bit sticky here for New Yorkers as well. NY State mirrored the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, so when it expires for most of the country, it will continues in NY.
I don't know if companies will be "urged" to start date stamping them again to avoid problems for these states, or whatever, but I can see what you are getting at. If they don't stamp them, the magazine distributors will just cover themselves in their flyers by stating that they will not ship to states restricting their ownership, but that would not prevent folks from going out of state to purchase them. These states adding thier own mag bans and/or restrictions, can complicate things for the manufactures. The anti's may use it as strong fodder against gun owners. They will call for helping these states out by asking for a ban on these "evil mags".
Though I would rather see the mags start being made without date stampings, I can see that continuing the date stamping may actually help to give the anti's one less thing to cry about.
They are stamped, so if they end up in states that have mag bans/restrictions, the person will be in trouble. Maybe that's bad for gun owning folks like myself living in one of these states, but probably best when looking at the Nation as a whole.
Thats what happens when one has a Governer that wears a Republican suite, but lawmakes like a hard core Democrat (in our case that would be Pataki). I voted for him with much hope to get communist like Coumo out of office, but after Pataki tried his hardest to pass even tougher gun restrictions than he eventually signed into law (he tried to even ban the post ban models), I gave my vote to pro gun Gollisano. Sure Gollisano lost, but Pataki will never again receive my vote.
The only reason we were lucky (if that is what one calls it) to just get a law mirroring the Fed AWB, was that the NY State Republicans fought hard to water down what Pataki really wanted. Again, if Pataki would have gotten what he wanted, even our post bans would have been gone. Our State Republicans could have fought much harder, but instead chose to go the easier route, which was to make deals. Their deals got us a permanent AWB.
I am currently not registered in any political party, and vote 95% of the time for Republican candidates, but they have to support my gun beliefs strongly, or at least much stronger than the Democrat contender, in order to get my vote.
It's sad, but states like NY, CA, NJ, etc, have Republicans that are that only in name, not in action.