Hi-Caps in another rifle.

[Skyler76]

OK, so I own a couple of high cap magazines - legally. I had them well before 2000.

Are they legal if I put them in another rifle? Are they supposed to belong* to a rifle?

[Baconator]

Yes. Many people bought magazines for guns they didn't own prior to the ban just in case the decided to get those guns one day. Don't put them in a featured AR rifle though.

[Vanilla Gorilla]

the mags are all good but if you put them in a rifle with a BB then that is a no no so to answer your question yes you are all good as long as the gun you are putting the hi caps into is a featureless gun

[Skyler76]

thanks guys

[Reductio]

You've got the right idea, just don't modify the mags so they don't work in the original firearm.

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=387409

[stix213]

Mags have to still function in the rifle model they were designed for, and don't put them in a fixed magazine centerfire semi-auto rifle as that creates an AW (fixed mag centerfire semi-auto rifles are limited to 10 round capacity). Otherwise, shoot em if ya got em.

[bohoki]

i have no idea why anyone would think that it was illegal

how do people come up with nonexisting laws

[evidens83]

^^ LOL seriously...

[Librarian]

It's because this is California, and gun-hostile legal interpretations are simply expected. We know this from personal experience, of course, but also from the ridiculous restrictions placed on legal products by certain well-known out-of-state catalog generators - from the outside, everything seems to be suspect.