In Russia, all magazines for use with any type of firearm are limited to a maximum of 10 rounds. [7] Also, I bought a Mossberg 500 shotgun with a 5-shot mag + 1 tube in the room (6 in total). If I fully charge this up to 6, is it legal? If I buy a bigger tube magazine to get 8+1, is it legal? I generally understood that shotguns were not limited to all sizes of magazines. There is no prohibition, restriction or other additional legal requirement for the possession, purchase, sale or importation into the UK of high-capacity magazines designed for use in rifles, shotguns and pistols. However, since January 1989, all semi-automatic rifles (with the exception of those designed for .22 rimfire cartridges) and since February 1998 all semi-automatic pistols intended for the general public without a firearm licence under section 5 are subject to the laws enacted after the Hungerford massacre in 1987 on semi-automatic rifles and after the Dunblane massacre in 1996 on semi-automatic pistols. generally prohibited. Prior to this particular data, a member of the public could hold it with a standard firearms licence under section 1. This means that, although high-capacity magazines are legal, they can only be legally used for semi-automatic rifles owned by citizens holding a firearms licence under section 1 if they are designed only to fire .22 caliber cartridges. Although long-barreled pistols (pistols with a barrel length of at least 12 inches) can still be possessed with a firearms licence under section 1, the Pistols Act passed in February 1998 only affected firearms with a barrel length of less than 12 inches, meaning that long-barreled pistols are in fact regulated along the same lines as rifles. semi-automatic rim .22. Thus, long-barrel guns can use high-capacity magazines, but only if they are chambered on .22 rim cartridges like semi-automatic rifles.
Revolvers are not classified as semi-automatic under UK law and can therefore be possessed in any caliber; However, they must still have a barrel length of at least 12 inches like semi-automatic rifles and pistols if they are in possession of a firearms licence under section 1. Bolt action, straight pulling, lever unlocking and all other manually loaded rifles can be owned in any caliber and use high-capacity magazines. The ban on high-capacity magazines is a law that prohibits or otherwise restricts magazines of high-capacity firearms, detachable firearm magazines that may contain more than a certain number of ammunition cartridges. In the United States, for example, the federal ban on offensive weapons, which had just expired in 1994, included restrictions on magazines that could hold more than ten rounds. Starting in 2022, twelve U.S. states and a number of local governments will ban or regulate journals they have legally defined as high-performance. The majority of states do not prohibit or regulate journals based on their capacity. States that have banned or restricted high-capacity magazines generally do not apply to fixed-loader firearms whose capacity would otherwise exceed the large capacity threshold. “We are committed to Canadians in the fight against gun violence. The legislation we introduced today is part of our broader strategy to promote safe and accountable gun laws, invest in law enforcement to stop organized crime and illegal arms smuggling across the border, and invest in communities to address root causes and prevent gun crime.
This bill will help reduce gun violence and keep Canadians safe. William B. Ruger, one of the founders of Sturm, Ruger & Co., is often credited with giving the impetus for the restrictions of high-capacity chargers. Ruger suggested that instead of banning firearms, Congress should ban magazines containing more than 15 rounds of ammunition. [9] Ruger told NBC News` Tom Brokaw in 1992 that “no honest man needs more than 10 rounds of ammunition in a weapon.” [10] [11] On March 30, 1989, Ruger sent a letter to each member of the U.S. Congress stating: A 2004 study examining the impact of the federal offensive weapons ban in place from 1994 to 2004, which included a ban on the sale of magazines larger than ten cartridges. The study found that the ban was effective in reducing crimes committed with offensive weapons, even though less than 2 percent of gun homicides in the United States are committed with offensive weapons. [38] The prohibition was not associated with a reduction in homicides involving firearms or the lethality of firearm-related crimes in general.
The authors suggest that this could be due to the simultaneous increase in the use of non-banned semi-automatic weapons with high-capacity magazines. The authors note that high-capacity magazines have greater potential to influence gun-related crime than assault weapons, as high-capacity magazines are used in firearms that are not classified as assault weapons. The authors further note: “However, it is not clear how often the ability to fire more than 10 shots without reloading (the current magazine capacity limit) affects the results of firearm attacks.” 95% of firearm-related homicides involve three or fewer shots. [39] Overall, the authors indicated that “there has been no discernible reduction in the lethality and harmfulness of gun violence, based on indicators such as the percentage of gun crime resulting in death or the proportion of incidents involving firearm injuries, as we might have expected if the ban had reduced crimes with armed weapons and MLs.” [40] The 1994 federal assault weapons ban included a ban on magazines that could contain more than ten rounds of ammunition. [13] : 1–2 The Protecting Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Act, commonly referred to as the Offensive Weapons Prohibition (AWB), was enacted in September 1994. The ban, including the ban on magazines containing more than ten cartridges, was lifted (expired) in September 2004 by a sunset clause. Attempts to renew the ban have failed at the federal level. With the passage of Bill C-17 in 1993 under the leadership of Prime Minister Kim Campbell (in response to the École Polytechnique massacre in 1989), magazines designed for use in medium-range semi-automatic rifles and semi-automatic shotguns were limited to five rounds, and magazines designed for use in handguns were limited to 10 rounds. Magazines designed for use in semi-automatic rim rifles, as well as manually operated long guns, are exempt from the magazine`s capacity limits.
It will be illegal to buy, sell, transfer or import handguns anywhere in the country, says Justin Trudeau So the best way to tackle the problem of firepower is not to try to ban or license several million older and perfectly legitimate firearms (which would be a licensing effort of astonishing proportions), but to prohibit the possession of large capacity chargers. A simple, comprehensive and unambiguous ban on high-capacity magazines eliminates the difficulty of defining “assault rifle” and “semi-automatic rifle”. The high-capacity magazine itself, separated or attached to the firearm, becomes a prohibited item. A single change to federal firearms laws could effectively implement these objectives. [12] In addition to this new legislation, the Canadian government will require that long-gun magazines be permanently modified so that they can never contain more than five rounds of ammunition, and will prohibit the sale and distribution of high-capacity magazines under the Criminal Code. The federal ban, which was in effect from 1994 to 2004, defined a magazine that could hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition as a high-capacity ammunition magazine. Similarly, the State of California defines a high-capacity magazine as “any device for the supply of ammunition with a capacity greater than 10 rounds.” [1] These devices are commonly referred to as high-capacity magazines. [2] [3] [4] Among states with bans, the maximum capacity is 10 to 20 rounds.
