Large capacity magazine
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A large capacity magazine was defined under US law as any ammunition feeding device for use in a firearm that can hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
Their sale in the USA was restricted to government and law enforcement officials by the Federal Assault Weapons Ban provision of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act which came into force on September 13, 1994. This law expired on September 13, 2004.
These devices are sometimes referred to as "Normal Capacity" or "Standard Capacity" magazines because many firearms were originally designed to operate using a magazine with the capability for more than ten rounds.
It should be noted that is also because the term 'large capacity magazine is considered pejorative by many gun rights supporters, for the item described had been simply a normal capacity magazine for many decades since the first use of the double column magazine design in 1935 in the Browning Hi-Power semi-automatic pistol, at least until re-defined by legislators favoring gun control over gun rights in the gun politics debate.
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