FedUpWithNJ

Also, don't forget the NJ legislature and judiciary respect neither the second amendment nor the first (banning distribution of 3d gun files). If the 4th amendment gets in the way of their totalitarian vision, you can bet it will be cast aside just as carelessly as the first two.

Or you get the judge who lowered the bar for criminal intent in NJ gun cases to sea level with "When dealing with guns, the citizen acts at his peril." Fancy your chances?

Not joking. I can upload pics if you care. They're not easy to cut with a sawzall. I admit it wasn't a fresh blade, but try it. Would have taken quite a while to do all six. I pulled out the grinder as an alternative to swapping out the blade. I just went and pulled one out of the trash. They don't seem to be blocked 17s - there's no block.

I think I committed sacrilege. Not to mention the visceral reaction to my constitutional rights being infringed in the most authoritarian manner possible: a felon unless I destroy my own property. The NJ legislature and judiciary are of the same mindset as the mob: we're going to execute you but before we do, take this shovel and dig your own grave.

But who would have shipped themselves 10 rd when they can get 15 for the same price. Police know with 99%+ probability that I have (had) 15 round mags. I was using reactionary in the general sense of reacting to events rather than the political sense. I agree the mag ban is anything but reactionary in the traditional political sense.

This is false. The police know that anyone who was shipped, for example, a factory Gen 5 Glock 19, has at least three 15 round magazines in their possession if they have not already disposed of them. It's on the Glock website. Forgive me for not sharing your saguinity. The magazine ban itself is purely reactionary, without any rational basis in fact, so who says they'll stop there>

As midnight Monday approached, I finally plucked up the courage to do what I had to do. I pulled my six factory-issued, 15-round Gen 5 Glock 19 magazines from their perch in the gun safe - aka death row (double-entendre intended unless you're the NJSP and then I-don't-know-what-you're-taling-about) - and headed to the garage for the final act. With a heavy heart I attempted to crush the first one in the bench vice. There was some cracking of the plastic shell but it did not yield. The sawzall fared little better: after a minute of frenzied action the blade had penetrated no more than a half-inch into the side of the magazine. Enough to blunt the blade and render the device dangerous, but still sufficiently operable to leave me a felon once the clock ticked past midnight. With the deadline fast-approaching I needed a faster means of execution. I pulled out the grinder. That did the trick, although the sparks and resistance were what I would have expected from a hardened padlock, not the thin metal of a handgun magazine. Those things are built. After unceremoniously tossing the severed carcasses in the trashcan, I left the garage with the scent of their death pungent in the air, and a new-found respect for their younger 10 round brothers locked and loaded in my bedside safe.

NJSP may not have any plans yet. You can bet your a$$ Weinberg, Murphy and Grewal do.

You'll be deferentially capitulating to the totalitarian thugs in the NJ legislature and judiciary all the way to total disarmament.

You claim none of us will receive an 18 month jail sentence for possessing a 15 round mag yet that is precisely the purpose of the legislation. Murphy and his fellow totalitarians in the NJ legislature and judiciary want nothing less than eradication of legal gun ownership in this state. If that means throwing every gun owner in jail for spurious, unconstitutional crimes then so be it. It is settled law in NJ that "When dealing with guns, the citizen acts at his peril". So yeah, perhaps some of us would get off with a fine and no jail time (and loss of the right to ever own a firearm again), but there's no guarantee and that's precisely the point. For someone whose dealings with law enforcement never extended beyond a speeding ticket, the prospect of a felony prosecution, possible jail time, and the loss of their constitutional rights - not to mention the potential deleterious effect on their future employment prospects - is a massive incentive to get on the first train out of here. You categorize as imbeciles those who believe the intent of this legislation is to "nail unsuspecting gun owners". Given the public record of NJ courts and the legislature, it's the imbecile who believes otherwise.