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As most know, New York State has passed legislation called "Safe NY". This precipitously conceived set of regulations will keep us hopping for a while, if it is allowed to stand after it is, I feel, inevitably tested in the courts. One of the provisions, uness I am mstaken, is the restriction on owning high capacity--in this case, anything over 7 rounds--magazines. This, after I finally succeeded in obtaining, modifying, and tuning a couple of G.I. mags for my Thompson semi! Theoretically, I have until April 15, 2014 to sell them out of state or to a dealer. An available option would, however, be to permanently reduce their capacity to within legal limits. This certainly dashes to the earth my desire to have (afford) a hundred round pre-ban drum! Anyway, does anyone have any experience in reducing capacity in a stick mag? Intuitively, I'd think that shortening the mag body and spring by the required dimension and proportion would get me pretty close if I were concerned only with capacity. For the original look of a 30-shot stick, the modification would need to be done internally, and in a way that would eliminate feasibility of its restoration to full capacity. Any suggestions? David Parker p.s. My new Thompson now qualifies as an assault weapon! The number of deadly characteristics used to qualify/disqualify a long gun as an A.W. dropped from three--90's ban style--to ONE, with some new ones added, just for good measure. For mine, TWO pistol grips, a compensator, and the ability to accept a high capacity mag.