Casting your own magazines

[Spooner]

This is a bit out there...

A mate of mine has recently starting a job at a plastic injection moulding and packaging place. He's now got the toys to do a few little projects on the side and I got thinking about doing some magazines for cheap.

Magazines aren't controlled obviously, does that mean they would be Ok to make yourself?

No illegalities around firearms manufacturing or something?

Thoughts?

[Press]

As long as it's not a controlled/licensed item I can't see why you wouldn't be able to make it. Whatever it is...

Stocks, magazines, etc.

In Victoria anyway... Are magazines controlled in any states? If not in the NT there shouldn't be a problem for you.

[Grrzrr]

A few things from the firearms act which hopefully answer this for you...

50A Unauthorised manufacture of firearms

(1) A person who manufactures a firearm is guilty of an offence under this subsection unless the person is authorised by a licence or permit to manufacture the firearm.

...

(5) In this section:

"manufacture" a firearm includes assemble a firearm from firearm parts.

Follow the link to the description of 'firearm' gets you this:

"firearm" means a gun, or other weapon, that is (or at any time was) capable of propelling a projectile by means of an explosive, and includes a blank fire firearm, or an air gun, but does not include anything declared by the regulations not to be a firearm.

"firearm part" means a barrel, breech, pistol slide, frame, receiver, cylinder, trigger mechanism, operating mechanism or magazine designed as, or reasonably capable of forming, part of a firearm.

Obviously a magazine isn't 'capable of propelling a projectile...' etc so isn't a classified as a firearm itself. The way the reads to me is you could make a magazine for an existing, registered firearm.

That's my interpretation, but a call to the NT firearms registry wouldn't hurt.

[Octane]

That's my interpretation, but a call to the NT firearms registry wouldn't hurt.

An email would be better.

Get the Ok in writing so you have a record should anyone question it during an inspection or anything like that.

[Aster]

Can't speak for all of them, but the VIC firearms registry has been pretty good about that in the past from my dealings.

Had a few response to emails or calls back after them, if someone wasn't sure they went off and double checked and got back to me etc.

Can't speak for them all, but they've been decent in my experience.

[Lorgar]

I had to sort out something with them a while ago when a permit had the wrong serial.

They were happy to sort everything out on the phone without any hassle.

It was more of a pain fixing up the books at my LGS than dealing with the registry.

[Harper]

Are magazines controlled in any states? If not in the NT there shouldn't be a problem for you.

Sounds right to me.

If you can buy it or order it online and do all that I'd by seriously surprised if you couldn't make one yourself.

[Spooner]

Cheers.

Thanks for doing the homework Grrzrr.

I'll get an email along for a written reply from the fuzz.

[John]

I can’t a problem with making your own mags some states have different laws on capacity’s you wouldn’t won’t to push your luck on but you’d have check your states laws regarding that
I’ve made a few metal magazines in the past they are very tricky to get to feed exactly right and much easier to buy them where possible

[Oldbloke]

Dont want to be rude but this thread ius a dinosaur.


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