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FWIW, the posession charged is a violation of NY law -before- Cuomo's abomination was passed.

Article 265 - Penal Law - Firearms and Other Dangerous Weapons

265.02 Criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree.
A person is guilty of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree when: ...
(8) Such person possesses a large capacity ammunition feeding device. ...
265.10 Manufacture, transport, disposition and defacement of weapons and dangerous instruments and appliances.
3. Any person who disposes of any machine-gun, assault weapon, large capacity ammunition feeding device or firearm silencer is guilty of a class D felony.

The new law makes such possession a misdemeanor.

265.36 Unlawful possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device.
It shall be unlawful for a person to knowingly possess a large capacity ammunition feeding device manufactured before September thirteenth, nineteen hundred ninety-four, and if such person lawfully possessed such large capacity feeding device before the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand thirteen which added this section, that has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or converted to accept, more than ten rounds of ammunition. ...
Unlawful possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device is a class A misdemeanor.
* NB Effective March 16, 2013

To be blunt, Cboldt, what the f--- difference does it make? Seven rounds or 10 rounds, misdemeanor or felony, what f---ing bit worth of difference does it make? Either way they've kidnapped Sgt. Haddad and are holding him prisoner in violation of the Constitution. Every one of them who is complicit in that crime, right down to the secretary filling out the paperwork, is a traitor to their oath.

A felony for a metal box? Five felonies for five metal boxes? It's a screaming outrage, it's a knife in the gut of every patriotic American who fought to defend this nation and our way of life.

We need to stop dithering around about shades of illegality in illegal laws, stop hoping that someone some day will eventually have enough money to drag every last one of 100,000 infringements across the nation up the Supreme Court steps and beg them for their pearls of wisdom on the meaning of the phrase "shall not be infringed," so that we might perhaps in 50,000 years regain the fundamental human right of Self-Defense from their Benevolent Hand.

Remember, they can't fit 80 million American gun owners in prison, even though they've started to try with Sgt. Haddad.