FOIA request confirms that zero standard capacity magazines have been turned in to New Jersey state police.

My rifle with a few standard capacity PMAG's.

Just a quick post for something I shared on social media but did not actually write about on my blog. The website Ammoland.com did a freedom of information act request for New Jersey in the wake of their standard capacity magazine ban. According to them there is no record of ANY people in New Jersey handed in any of their magazines at all.

They also claim to have contacted local police departments in New Jersey and none of them claim to have seen any magazines come in either. If true that means that compliance with New Jersey's magazine ban might be at 0%. That would be a huge victory for gun rights if true and considering this is happening in a rock solid blue state it doesn't bode well for gun control.

That being said, I don't know how trustworthy those claims are. It's inarguable that the State Government has admitted to not receiving any magazines but their claims for local police departments are all sources that haven't gone on the record. As always, it's good to be skeptical with anonymous sources.

Plus there is also the possibility that people either sold, destroyed or modified their magazines to comply with the law. That wouldn't leave any record but it could mean that some small number of people did comply with the law.

I sincerely doubt that many if any did so though. People generally ignore these magazine laws and generally just keep their magazines when something like this happens. And with normal capacity magazines being legal in California for a week and hundreds of thousands if not millions of magazines being bought, it seems as though people just don't care about magazine bans. It should be a pretty strong warning to gun controllers that any new laws would likely not be followed.

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