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“CO does not prohibit “high capacity assault rifles” but they do limit new magazines to 15 rounds. It was not illegal for the guy to make the purchase (AF screw up not withstanding)but it would violate CO law if he brought a 30 round mag back to the state. “

When I lived in NJ in the 1990s, I went to gun shows in Pennsylvania quite a number of times and bought 20- and 30-round magazines (15 was the limit in NJ then, now it is 10). OK, I didn’t have to provide ID, and I paid cash, but it was still not illegal for me to BUY them - NJ law could not and cannot control what anyone does outside of NJ. Similarly, CO law cannot control what anyone, even a CO resident, does outside of CO.

Oh, and FYI, I most certainly DID violate NJ law, because I brought home all of the mags. They were for “just in case,” and I never brought them to a NJ range. I got married in 1999, and left NJ about 1 1/2 years later for Texas. On the way out, as soon as we crossed the border to Delaware, I casually said to my wife, “Well, now you don’t have to worry about bailing me out of jail.” She got a case of the pie-eyes and asked me why...so I explained the law to her. Then she asked me how many mags I had, to which I responded, “Sitting about 18 inches behind my rear end is roughly 200 years’ worth in Rahway State Prison.” She turned white and very uncharacteristically silent for about 30 seconds, and then asked me if Texas had laws like that. “No, babe, Texas is in America.”