RED WARNING TO DEALERS/GUNSMITHS--MAGAZINE CONVERSION
I've just talked to Dealer, who was about to start doing magazine
conversions commercially.  It could have cost him everything he
owns; he'd been suckered by the government.

He believed that he had official approval for two particular
magazine conversion methods from the RCMP.  He didn't.

He had two pieces of xeroxed paper, one showing variations on an
odd nut-and-bolt system which resembled bicycle-spoke assembly,
and one showing one of them installed from front to back in a
Glock magazine to restrict magazine platform travel.

I pointed out that the bolt could be removed in two minutes with
a drill or grinder, and he agreed.  I then read him the criteria
in Order in Council JUS-92-56-02:

(3) (Prohibited weapons status) does not apply (to)... a
magazine... that has been altered... IF the modification...
cannot be easily removed and... cannot be easily further altered
so that (the magazine) is capable of containing more...
cartridges... [emphasis added].

That conversion method obviously didn't convert the magazine out
of "prohibited weapon" status.  Nowhere on the papers he had did
it say that the "conversion" would have that effect.  There was
no letterhead on either paper, and no signature, and no text to
say that doing such "conversions" would have any legal effect.

Any alteration voids the warranty on the magazine
and the firearm.  Every proposed modification we've seen
will increase the malfunction rate of the firearm.  Accidental
discharges usually happen while dealing with malfunctions.  If
the maker can't be sued, who does that leave?  YOU, that's who.

Sued, Dealer could claim that he was authorized to do it by
government; but the papers he had didn't say that.  They didn't
say anything, accepted no liability, and offered no support.

Worse, Dealer had been told, verbally, that another conversion
he'd invented himself, using pop rivets, also "passed" and could
be used.  ANYTHING YOU ARE TOLD VERBALLY ISN'T WORTH THE PAPER
IT ISN'T WRITTEN ON IN COURT!  AND DON'T EVER FORGET THAT,
OR YOU'LL LEARN IT'S TRUE  IN A COURT, WHILE LOSING EVERYTHING!

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A SIGNED LETTER, ON LETTERHEAD, WHICH SAYS
THAT THE CONVERSION HAS THE EFFECT OF CONVERTING A MAGAZINE FROM
"PROHIBITED WEAPON" STATUS TO LEGAL UNRESTRICTED STATUS, YOU HAVE
NOTHING AND CAN BE SUED OVER DEATHS, INJURIES, AND CRIMINAL
CHARGES, BY YOUR CUSTOMERS WHO BELIEVED YOU WHEN YOU SAID YOUR
CONVERSIONS WOULD MAKE THEIR MAGAZINES SAFE AND NOT "PROHIBITED."

GET A PROPER SIGNED AUTHORIZATION ON LETTERHEAD OR DON'T DO IT!