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I'm starting to get quite a collection of S&W, Sig and Glock magazines. Most high capacity, some not. Some acquired years ago, others more recently.
Since we don't know what the Obama administration might do in the future  is there any reason to keep the magazine sales receipts to prove date of purchase? Problem is that since magazines don't have any identifing mark it makes it tough to really prove what was acquired when.Maybe I'm making a big deal about nothing but I thought I would pose the question before possibly trashing the receipts. |
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If a hi-cap ban is enacted the way it was last time, magazines you possess BEFORE the ban are fine. Buying new ones becomes the problem. The government, in prosecuting you, would have to prove you bought a mag post-ban. Pretty much the only way to do that is to catch you in the act. The alternative is a UK-style ban, where they simply become illegal to own. In that case receipts won't help you. "I am a Soldier. I fight where I'm told and I win where I fight." GEN George S. Patton, Jr. |
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What Tank said.
That, plus a sales receipt does not actually identify those individual mags, it will just say you bought X amount of X type of mags with no way of identifying those actual mags. "220ST (The Man) ROCKS" Non Silba sed anthar Rev 14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. |
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IF they grandfather in the older hi-cap mags. Or they could do like FDR did with Gold -- no private ownership, period.
10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. |
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Let's not forget the "just compensation" clause. If they outlaw the magazines I expect that they will have to pay fair market value to get them. Let's see now, you give me a written offer for $5000 each for mine, I give you a written offer for $5000 each for yours. Then we tie the whole thing up in federal court for a few years, forcing the government to pay the proven fair market value, as demonstrated by written purchase offers! |
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Last time around (1994) manufacturers were required to stamp the date of manufacture on banned (large capacity) magazines. Get caught with a dated magazine (1994-2004) and you're an instant felon. I never heard of any prosecutions for simple possession, though, although I'm sure one or two happened. They went after the volume guys.
USMC(ret) Life member of just about everything Registered gun lobbyist 16 years C&R licensee NRA certified instructor |
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You have no legal right to possess contraband so the gov't will not compensate you for the loss of it. ____________________________________________________________ "I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here." -- Ronald Reagan, Farewell Adress, Jan. 11, 1989 Si vis pacem para bellum There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. Feeding Trolls Since 1995 |
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Respectfully, good luck with that. First, the government will take your mag, cut you a check for 12$ each or so and tell you to have a go at the federal courts. You will then pay the 450$ filing fee for an action in a federal district court only to lose very quickly on a motion to dismiss. One written offer does not a reasonable value for the property make. People have tried this kind of thing with eminent domain seizures. The government will then move for you to pay its attorney fees and costs. Be very careful when you file a court action against the United States Federal Government. This is not legal advice, I am not a lawyer. . |
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My thoughts on this topic: Keep the receipts if you have them--they take up no room, and you MAY possibly need them 10 years down the road--if you are really concerned about this potential problem--take clear detailed date-imprinted pics of the mags together with the receipts--mail the pics to yourself in a sealed env to get a dated post-mark--and put the still-sealed package away in your safe-deposit box to hold onto forever as officially dated insurance if the problem ever arises--not 100% proof but as good as it gets for free!!
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