Kawi7

The bottom line is the wording of the law is : b. Render the semi-automatic rifle or magazine inoperable 1or permanently modify a large capacity ammunition magazine to accept 10 rounds or less1; There are no definitions written out for the “permanently” in the law. There is nothing stated how or what constitutes making it permanent such as riviets, pins, epoxy, blocks, cutting down magbody, etc.. What the state police put out on how to modify mags or what mags are ok, such as Hexmags, is their iinterpretation or guidelines as to what they consider permanent. As I understand it, the state police does not make law, nor can they add or delete text from the law. They can however, as can your local police, Sheriff, etc, charge you with having a high capacity magazine based on their interpretation of permanently. If that were to happen and you fought it, the decision on permanently would ultimately be made by a judge or jury.. Those of us who are discussing this matter are trying to avoid getting jammed up in the first place. If anyone knows if there is any case law on this matter, please post it.

I have some magazines that need to be modified from 15 to 10 rounds to keep from being sent to the gulag in the Soviet State of NJ.. They are mostly AK and AR mags. I decided to see if I could take apart and reblock four 15/30’s that were already permanently altered when I purchased the rifles from a NJ Dealer. I wanted to see how well they were made permanent and did’t care if I messed them up, it was more practice before modifying some better mags. Just by looking at them you could not tell they were epoxied in any way, only pinned or riveted. I was able to carefully take them apart without damaging them fairly quickly.. Two were AK Pmags pinned going through the side of the floor plate, through the body and into the plastic block. One was an MFT AR mag pinned through the bottom of the floor plate into the block with some sort of adhesive attaching the block to the spring. The other was an AR PMag riveted through the floor plate into the block with adhesive between the block and floor plate. The adhesives used did not adhere well to the polymer of either the Pmag or the MFT and popped right off under some pressure. Don’t know what the adhesives were, one was black the other a clear yellowish color..