10/30 question

[lawnrevenge]

I have some normal capacity mags kept out of state at a friend's house. I was thinking it'd be nice to turn some of them into 10/30 or 10/20 magazines so I can use/bring them here. I came up with the idea that I can drill 4 holes (2 per side) in the magazine body at the correct height and put it 4 brass pop rivets so the follower can't travel lower. Is this method legal? It seems legal, and it is something I could easily do at his home with a cordless drive and a pop-rivet tool. I want to install a mag-lock/bullet button on my sks along with a T6 stock and some other stuff (including the 922(r) parts). And having some nice 10/20 or 10/30 mags would be a nice way to finish it off. Yes I know that strippers are faster/easier/etc. and I don't want to hear the whole m59/66 isn't really an sks thing either. I've been searching and haven't found much to help with the magazines, which is my main question. Also with this setup I will be able to use normal capacity mags when I go out of state. And I want to use this method for other rifles too if it is a legal/easy way to do it.

[DedEye]

Don't do it. Save your normal caps (out of state of course) and just buy new ones. Don't wreck something wonderful for something inferior.

[lawnrevenge]

I want the added length, the ten rounders don't offer much leverage.
I think a magazine that sits in a garage and get used 1-2 times a year at most is worse that a former 20 rounder getting some use here.
My main concern is if the DOJ would consider pop-rivets permanent enough.

[milsurpshooter]

or you accidently find some standard cap mags laying around in an old barn no law that says you can't find one

[lawnrevenge]

What I want is 10 rounders to use with a mag-lock device. I can't have a fixed, normal capacity magazine, only ten rounds. And I don't live near any barns so that won't work.

[milsurpshooter]

well you could try to weld a piece of something inside the mag. and i think it only has to require the use of time and a tool make it useable and to make it legal

[lawnrevenge]

Thanks. I figured that as long as I needed to use tools to make it normal capacity again it would be fine. I think I'll be testing this soon on a cheap magazine, if it works I'll modify some nice ones too bring home. If I use brass rivets I can braze them to the mag body to make the joint stronger, yet reversible with a mapp gas torch, and some hand tools.

[milsurpshooter]

well good luck with that. i hope it turns out good for you.

[thedrickel]

I don't think rivets are permanent enough. IMHO if you can make it a standard cap mag again without destroying it, it's not good enough.

[lawnrevenge]

IMHO if you can make it a standard cap mag again without destroying it, it's not good enough.

That is what I fear. I don't want to get into any gray areas. I was hoping someone had so good solid evidence of what is required for it to be legal. I might just have to write the DOJ to see what they say. And I might just go with plan B; Get some 10 rd. mags and weld a dummy body to the bottom so it's longer for leverage but never was a normal cap. mag.

[milsurpshooter]

thats the more super legal way to do it. man california is retarded sometimes. leave us be i say.