An Army veteran in New York is facing up to seven years in prison for possessing five empty 30-round ammunition magazines.
Nate Haddad told WGRZ-TV he
was parked on a road last month waiting to meet someone interested in
buying them off him when police approached. According to the station,
the magazines were for an AR-15 rifle, the same type of weapon Haddad
once carried in combat. Magazines over 10 rounds have been illegal in
New York since 1994, unless they were manufactured before the law went
into effect. Haddad says he thought his were legal, until he found out
otherwise.
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