For heavens sakes, git over to VA, DE, WVA or PA and pick some more up.
And for god's sakes get some sleep Mathfish!
For heavens sakes, git over to VA, DE, WVA or PA and pick some more up.
Cripes, seriously?
The FFL sold you an AR in MD without 30 round mags - legal. The FFL shipped some surplus mags not for sale in MD to an address in another state - legal. You took possession of some mags in a state where it was legal to do so - legal.
Problem is... ?
EDIT - does your receipt for the AR list any 30 round mags? If not, you're fine.
Cripes, seriously?
The FFL sold you an AR in MD without 30 round mags - legal. The FFL shipped some surplus mags not for sale in MD to an address in another state - legal. You took possession of some mags in a state where it was legal to do so - legal.
Problem is... ?
EDIT - does your receipt for the AR list any 30 round mags? If not, you're fine.
(b) Prohibited. -- A person may not manufacture, sell, offer for sale, purchase, receive, or transfer a detachable magazine that has a capacity of more than 10 rounds of ammunition for a firearm.
And the FFL in MD didn't sell the AR to me. I bought it from a FFL out of state. The in state FFL just received the box of the AR and the unfortunate 30 round mag. He only did paper work.
Finally, if I did want to talk to a lawyer about this, how could I find a recommended one apart from a google search?
If it was a MD FFL, "offer for sale" for a 30 would have been an issue, even before FSA13.
thanks all for the replies. This is what I need and why I did it originally because it seemed 100% legal.
But again I worry about why someone who is "in the know" says otherwise.
For example, not to flame Mr. H. I am sure he knows his stuff but his post seemed to be more of a "I am not so sure this is legal".
He is not on but that little doubt is enough to keep this door open and make me wonder.
I will have to look. I am at the hospital right now. My daughter was just born.
I think the stress of this is actually because of that. Fearing losing my job with a new girl . . .
I know you have all fielded this question before, even from myself so I am very sorry to ask again but I really need a sanity check so I do not go crazy. Quickly here is the back-story:
Before the new gun laws came into affect, I ordered an AR15 and asked them twice to remove the 30 round magazine. They said yes both times but didn't. The FFL said he could ship the magazine to someone I knew in VA and I could pick it up legally. I was worried that was not right and I asked the board here and everyone said it was legal. I read the law and it seemed consistent with what everyone was saying. So that is what I did and drove it back to PG county.
Fast forward some months and the lawyer at my gun club at work was going over the new gun laws and he got to the section on detachable magazines and he mentioned it was illegal to go to another state and buy magazine and transport it back. He pointed to the word "transfer" in the line " A person may not manufacture, sell, offer for sale, purchase, receive, or transfer a detachable magazine ...."
So I freak out. My job depends on me being in good legal standing. But on this board and on other sites it says it is legal. To me the context of the magazine part of the law is on possession. So transfer must mean transfer possession not just movement of something. If hypothetically it did mean movement and not change of ownership of a magazine greater than 10 rounds, because it doesn't say "transfer into the state" or something similar, then it would make it illegal to flat out move your magazine. To your car, to the gun range, out of the safe, whatever. Which is crazy. So it has to mean transfer as in ownership. So I don't see how it could be illegal but I am bothered that he was a lawyer from a gun club who said it was illegal. So it is really bothering me that there is some "other" law that he knew about or a county law or something. Or that "transfer" really does mean "movement". I don't want to pay a lot of money that I don't have to consult a lawyer but I don't want to keep on worrying about this and it really is keeping me up at nights. Maybe I'm just more sensitive than most but I am just going around in circles wondering if I broke the law and what to do next.
I really could use some help and something pretty conclusive that I can lean on. I'm freaking out just a little. Thank you!!
I think so too, maybe I'll send out a post on that.
I can see what Mr H is getting at.