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Leupold
Recruit Joined: Feb 24 2020 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 4 |
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Posted: Feb 26 2020 at 7:17am |
Hello, everybody,
My name is Thomas and I live in Germany. Here we have just received a new weapons law, which contains some important changes. For the most part unfortunately more populist than actually dedicated to security. Anyway, one part is that semi-automatic rifles are no longer allowed to use magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. We have here a large number of sport shooters who like to shoot with the 30M1. However, the current magazines hold 15 rounds and a pure limitation to 10 rounds is not allowed in the future. In fact, the form factor of the magazines are not allowed to hold more than 10 shots It occurred to me that there are only a few states in the USA that impose a 10 round limit? I hope you can help me, whether in the USA or elsewhere, there are manufacturers for 10 shot magazines for the 30M1. These must work cleanly even under competition conditions. If there is a source, I will see how to import them legally. If anyone has any tips on this, I would be happy to hear them. BR, Thomas
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floydthecat
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5-rounders are available from various sources...even ebay. As opposed to blocking a mag (which may-or-may-not be legal there) I’d consider 5’s.
I am not saying 10’s are not available....just saying 5’s are an alternative and the one’s I have are very good. Often sellers on places like ebay list a 15 as a 10 just to meet ebay’s 10 policy. A few listed suppliers for 10’s: Keep Shooting Pro Mag Auto Ordnance You could contact these and see if they ship internationally.
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New2brass
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Can original magazines be blocked to only accept 10 rounds?
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Leupold
Recruit Joined: Feb 24 2020 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 4 |
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Hi floydthecat,
thanks for the quick response. 5 rounders are not an option because there is a minimum of 6 rounds necessary to run trough the stages. As an example: One of the matches is a modified 1500 match. You need 150 rounds in total and in one of the stages 4 mags with 6 rounds each. I´ll try to get in touch with the mentioned suppliers.
Is here somebody else who has experience with 10 round mags? |
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Leupold
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Hi, no, that is a one of the main issues. The only way is to cut them down. But I have no experience with this kind of work. |
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patrickduis
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Hello and welcome here on the forum.
In The Netherlands we also had the law changed last year over the magazines. We had to re-apply a new permit form for our .30M1s, with an extra statement that for shooting sport the use of high capacity magazines is necessary (the so called A7 declaration). A member of the board of the club needs to underwrite and with that I got a new permit stating "extra permit for magazines >10 rounds for rifles as well as magazines >20 rounds for handguns for the weapon described above". In this case, my .30M1. It can be that the German government will implement something similar like this: a statement that it is for a specific shooting sport discipline.
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Leupold
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That is what we in Germany also applied for. But our politicians ignored it so we have a much harder law as the most other European countries.
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patrickduis
On Point Joined: Jan 12 2016 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 285 |
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Yes it is in your country........in the Netherlands we are "masters of compromise"..........we talk a lot, but at the end nothing much changes.........but it costs more and more "managers" get a job because of all this talking.......
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Various Inlands, Underwoods, I.B.M.s and an NPM
NVBIW, NVWHT, NVBMB, KNSA member Conservator Military Historical Museum Achtmaal U.S. 104th I.D. Timberwolves www.militairhistorischmuseumachtmaal.nl |
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sling00
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First, welcome to the forum. I enjoy reading about gun laws in other countries. Another at Midway. Promag with not very good ratings. (You have to select 10 round in the drop down Capacity box)
Edited by sling00 - Feb 27 2020 at 7:05am |
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