re: Colorado Magazine ban of 15 rounds passes through committee 7-4

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Let's say your state bans 15+ round magazines.
At that point, is it legal to even have them in your possession?

Same deal on a federal level. If they are banned, can you even go to the range and shoot with them?

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I suppose that would depend on the wording of the legislation. From a practical standpoint I just dont see how the States of Feds can collect the millions of mags given that they arent tracked, inventoried, serial numbered, registered, etc.

I lived in GA during the last AWB. There were plenty of folks that had "pre-ban" magazines for handguns/etc which were at the local gun ranges. Was that legal? I'm not sure but if it was illegal it certainly wasnt being enforced. My guess is that the legislation would regulate the retail and person to person sale of high cap magazines. Being that the mags would be perfectly legal right across the State border this would probably lead to an underground market for "pre-ban" or gray market mags in the affected State. It will be interesting to see how any legislation comes down the pipe as enforcement of the legislation has some huge hurdles.