I think modification naysayers are usually a bit paranoid.
I hear some say you should not even carry a customized pistol. This actually makes sense if you believe their basic premise: that showing an interest or competence in your firearm already dooms you.
Removing the mag disconnect...I can see absolutely no reason that should get someone in trouble. As long as you did not accidentally shoot someone with a mag out....
Even if you did need to shoot someone on defence, if the gun were seized and you went to court, they do not have people giving defenseless pistols autopsies to see if somebody took out the disconnect.
Pinning a grip-safety is the same way, who is to notice or care so long as you did not accidentally discharge the gun? Not a cop or prosecutor in 500 would even know to look, and a goodly percentage of the ones who did would not care unless there were evidence that something else about the shooting were off. Like someone misleading the police with stupid statements like: 'He was comming at me. I don't remember what happened; it just went off.'
Reloads...lots hoop-lah on that one, and I can't see why for most people it would not be reasonable to carry factory loads, but show me an actual case where that meant anything. Not it was mentioned, but that it meant something to the outcome.
We may be a litigious society, but I bet most self-defence shootings do not end in either criminal or civil prosecution, and if they did, none of these would be the deciding factor.
The thing is always: be absolutely, exactly honest, to the smallest detail, and then do not offer anything you are not asked.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: telackey on 2001-06-15 18:48 ]</font>