I recently purchased an ex-police P220 and was looking for inexpensive mags (factory).  I found that Armscor makes mags that fit the P220.  Why?


Rob

I have sat here trying to understand your question... and not being the GD at a loss for something that does not sound sarcastic.


Maybe they saw a market and produced them for that.



Kinda like asking why Magpul has Glock magazines... people will buy them.



In all seriousness... am I not understanding your question?

It is a serious question.  Do they, or did they ever make a gun that uses them?  If not, it seems odd to me for one gun maker to make magazines for another maker's guns.  Heck, I don't think they make the magazines for most of their OWN guns (Metalform, I think, makes many of them).

It isn't like the Magpul/Glock situation at all.  It is more like if Ruger started making magazines for the Beretta 92.  Ruger makes 1911 magazines, but that makes sense because they make 1911 pistols.

Rob

I expect the SIG 220 mag, also being a single stack .45" ACP mag, is similar enough to the 1911 mag they figured why not.  There also might be some SIG 220s in Philippine service, so that might be the reason.

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Mec-gar makes "OEM" magazines for a number of pistol manufacturers.


ie;

From the Mec-Gar website:
-Astra
-Beretta
-Browning
-Colt
-CZ
-Llama
-Luger
-Para-Ordnance
-Ruger
-Smith & Wesson
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-Star
-Witness
-Taurus
-Walther

It is not uncommon for parts to be "subed out".  Why tool up when it is cheaper to have someone else to do the tooling and manafucturing.

Maybe Armscor at one time made "OEM" mags for SIG.

If only this meant that Armscor would also manufacture and sell P220 clones

My first thought was maybe at one time Armscor made a 220 clone, or maybe the government used them so they started supplying parts for a contract.

I have one of the ARMSCORP mags, it works great and I can run silverbear ammo in it where as silverbear won't physically fit in the factory Sig P220 mag

I have several ACT mags for the P220. They look and work as well as Sig's. Top Gun Supply sells them for $17.99

This.  I used ACT mags for my 220's when I had them.  Worked well enough.