stripper clips cannot be "loaded" they are designed to keep the rounds together but they cannot be attached
to any-firearm and fired as they are.
The world clip is used in too many places for too many reasons. A clip here has little to do with any meaningful way to
provide quick reloading of the firearm.
There is no way an SKS clip is any less compliant than this under these BS statutes.
I agree with you 100% that this is the correct answer... However, I would not put it past an ambitious and badly trained LEO to see it otherwise and to potentially cause an owner some big trouble over it. Even if something like this were to get thrown out, a person's life and livelyhood could be turned upside-down and inside-out before it was over. That's just one thing that's so terrible about these laws being so badly written and more importantly that LEO agencies are altrady making arrests based on them without any real training. How can they possibly even have training though when even the official SAFE hotline doesn't have the answers (or even consistantly give the same answers from what they do have) ?. It's a complete clusterfudge.
Mind you, I certainly intended no LEO bashing here. I'm not saying all LEOs would made this kind of mistake by any means but I have personally been harrased about gun features by officers who didn't understand the laws, and this was long before there was a safe act.. so all I'm saying is that it most certainly can happen.
If they were in a sealed crate then I'd leave them alone because, as already stated, they are legal as is.. and frankly if you have a cop in your home busting open a sealed crate then I think you'd already have bigger problems then one not knowing how the law pertains to sks strippers. Honestly though, and I know I'll catch some flak for this, but if I had them stored out somewhere I'd personally probably load them down to 7, for the time being anyway. It just wouldn't be worth it to me, between money issues and health issues and just.. living life in general, to want to potentially have to do battle over it because someone uninformed wanted to make it an issue.
