CO magazine capacity laws

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I apologize upfront if this is in the wrong section.

I'll be moving to Colorado soon and am trying to figure out the magazine laws there, anything I find online seems to not answer all my questions. Any help on local knowledge or a link to a good/better read than I've been able to locate would be great.

So if I owned the magazine before July 1 2013 it can hold more than 15 rounds. Any new ones I buy would have to be 15 or less.

I can't seem to find anything online about using a pre-2013 magazine. Is it legal to use? If it is legal, is it stupid cause negative attention will probably result?

I'm afraid my XDm 5.25 might become useless since all the mags are 19 rounders.

Any help I appreciate and realize that it does not constitute actual legal advice.

ETA: if someone doesn't feel comfortable discussing on an open forum, a PM would be great.
 
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I have no idea. A friend tells me they're allowed 15 rounds max.

since you're moving in from out of state, I would expect -but do not know for sure- that your current mags greater than 15 rounds are not legal to bring into the state with you. Typically such grandfathering is applied only to those items that are already owned by residents of the state & do not apply to future immigrants.
 
If you owned them before July 1, 2013, then they are legal to own. You won't be able to buy any magazines that hold over 15 in this state, but that sure doesn't keep a guy from buying them when he visits relatives across the border, and bringing them with you. The law simply is un-enforceable since magazines don't have "manufactured" dates on them.
It's a dumb law and about the only thing it does is keeps a guy from "legally' selling magazines that hold over 15 to others with-in the state and keeps stores from including magazines with guns that hold over 15.
 
"Exceptions – A person may possess a large-capacity magazine if they owned the large-capacity magazine on or prior to July 1, 2013, and maintain continuous possession of the magazine.5 When a person charged with illegal possession of a large-capacity magazine claims to fall under this exception, the burden of proof is on the prosecution to prove otherwise.6"

That doesn't state that it had to be in the state prior to the cutoff, so I'd say you can take your mags with you when you move.
 
I have plenty of 20+ round magazines.

Doesn't bother me a bit carrying them around for my AR15's.


They can stop me, question me and then they can SUK it!
 
yes, no reason not to. Once again, you can't purchase new 30 round magazines in state, but nothing in the law says you can't use them.
 
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