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Quoted: once again.... ammo will return, and you will be able to buy it locally.... however.. if they ban new mags you wont be able to walk into the local gun shop and replace lost / damaged / stolen mags, or mags for your new gun, or your kids / grandkids guns.. or to replace mags that were stolen, or confiscated via red flag / trump hate etc.. and seizures will sky rocket IMHO... and no you wont get it back even if its decided its all bullshit, they will keep the ammo, and probably the mags if they were already banned, quite possible the guns as well. mags get banned, they instantly become valuable, and people will look to steal them, especially at ranges, out of vehicles, your house, etc. someone grabs your range bag with all your mags in it, your basically fucked instantly. you NEED to have backups stashed here and there. its not hard, fill a ammo can with mags and throw it under the house in the crawl space, probably be safe under there forever in most cases. jeez people. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Because there's nothing to put in them. once again.... ammo will return, and you will be able to buy it locally.... however.. if they ban new mags you wont be able to walk into the local gun shop and replace lost / damaged / stolen mags, or mags for your new gun, or your kids / grandkids guns.. or to replace mags that were stolen, or confiscated via red flag / trump hate etc.. and seizures will sky rocket IMHO... and no you wont get it back even if its decided its all bullshit, they will keep the ammo, and probably the mags if they were already banned, quite possible the guns as well. mags get banned, they instantly become valuable, and people will look to steal them, especially at ranges, out of vehicles, your house, etc. someone grabs your range bag with all your mags in it, your basically fucked instantly. you NEED to have backups stashed here and there. its not hard, fill a ammo can with mags and throw it under the house in the crawl space, probably be safe under there forever in most cases. jeez people. And once again, many people will buy mags when they think they need them. Just like now with all the people buying ammo who never heard of "buy cheap/stack deep." My comment was more in jest considering the current situation, but the fact is many, many people in the general population don't see any need for large numbers of mags. People on this very website question the "need" for large stockpiles of mags. Lighten up. |
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Quoted: The people who stockpile shit already have magazines. The people who don't aren't buying magazines either. My original post had an emoji for a reason. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I’m honestly not sure what you’re arguing/trying to say. Although it sounds like a straw man argument in any regard because in that post I didn’t say a word about magazines The people who stockpile shit already have magazines. The people who don't aren't buying magazines either. My original post had an emoji for a reason. Ah, gotcha. Thx. |
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[#4]
If you don't have 100 AR and Glock 17 mags right now you are stupid as fuck.
Ok, maybe not 100, but as many as you think you and your family will need forever. |
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[#5]
Last panic was mags, BCGs, and LPKs. After things settled, everyone (including myself) stocked up on them.
Unfortunately you'd have been better served investing in ammo/reloading for this one. And when this one passes, you'll see people stock up on ammo like never before, only to have it be something completely different next panic |
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Quoted: If you don't have 100 AR and Glock 17 mags right now you are stupid as fuck. Ok, maybe not 100, but as many as you think you and your family will need forever. View Quote I have 2 Glocks, don't have a single completed AR and have no lowers* (yet! ), am crazy poor, and even I probably have about 3 full duffle bags of mags. When I move, it's going to be difficult and I barely have any tools or furniture. I'm going to have to fill up whatever truck I get with gun stuff and rent a trailer for normal people stuff. I'd rather have a trailer accident with my clothes and things than my guns. Edit-that was the point, no excuses! |
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Quoted: its not just about ar mags. how many mags do you have for your ccw pistol? your home defense pistol? pistols your interested in buying down the road? your semi auto 22 rifles? your womans ccw gun? have you considered your kids and grandkids, and picked up some extra mags and such for the coming generation of shooters needing self defense guns / mags? in this thread we see people who have never lived thru a mag ban and fail to understand its long term effects, on both shooters and the coming generations of shooters and this thread makes me sad as fuck as its filled with extreme short sightedness. View Quote You’ve done your duty bro, maybe more than anyone else to wake them up. Some listen some don’t, the ones who don’t will bitch about market prices in the shadow of a ban. |
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Plenty at the shops in my area. My guess is all the new owners are focusing on ammo and don’t see a need for a huge pile of mags.
An employee at the local hardware store did tell me sales volume in mags is up, but their inventory is bigger than ever so clearly supply is keeping up. Could be that it’s easier to scale up production of polymer mags than ammo. |
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Pretty tough to find a quality BCG or bolt in stock at the moment.
It's coming. |
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Quoted: Plenty at the shops in my area. My guess is all the new owners are focusing on ammo and don’t see a need for a huge pile of mags. View Quote New owners in particular, especially non-gun people, tend to suffer from some degree of lack of imagination or critical thinking, at least in certain areas. It's why most of them didn't own firearms before now in the first place. I get that some of them have to make a fiscal trade-off due to the cost of ammo, but most of them still wouldn't buy more than 3-4 mags even if ammo was dirt cheap. People just bumble through life without much consideration for the long term, or things wearing out. |
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The first time around NYS grandfathered standard cap mags then banned them completely. EBR were grandfathered but they can't be transferred in state even to your family.
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Quoted: Last panic was mags, BCGs, and LPKs. After things settled, everyone (including myself) stocked up on them. Unfortunately you'd have been better served investing in ammo/reloading for this one. And when this one passes, you'll see people stock up on ammo like never before, only to have it be something completely different next panic View Quote The next panic may well be armor, bandages, and tourniquets. |
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Quoted: Pretty tough to find a quality BCG or bolt in stock at the moment. It's coming. View Quote @JLAudio Nitride sold out earlier but I was able to pick up 3 of the premiums. I saw standalone bolts somewhere earlier today but cannot remember where. I'm at 1 extra BCG per AR with a bunch of parts kits so I'm good for now. I wouldn't mind picking up a few 5.56 bolts and a .450/.458 bolt. .458 Socom is some of the only ammo left and if you're paying a buck or more a round anyways... https://palmettostatearmory.com/ar-15/upper-parts/bolt-carrier-groups.html |
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You guys replying about lack of ammo as the reason you are not buying mags.. seriously you don't have enough to fill another 10 mags. 300 rounds?
Holy freaking shit, that's pathetic. |
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The guys with 40 ars and 500 mags with no armor, comms, NV etc. Also crack me up.
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[#20]
I’ll keep buying mags for everything I have until I can’t. Those that don’t will likely wish they did later.
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The local Rural King had a full display of PMags M2 for $14. I didn't look at any prices but they had a metric ton of HexMags and another polymer mag I didn't see a name on.
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I remember 1994. Hi caps were everywhere. Every Walmart had 25 round ramline 10/22 mags. Then it was like a switch was flipped. The mags were gone, except for $50 ones at the gunshot.
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Quoted: I have a bunch of those too. Yes, absolutely they're worth money now! If your EG mags are in like-new condition (many of them were) you can easily fetch $50 per mag. Even if they're "well-used" but they work you can get $25-$35 per mag. I bought my EG Bakelites in 2004 for $7.99/each. I had JUST missed them being on sale for $3.99/each. Back in the early 2000's they could barely give these things away. I bought a bunch but wish I had bought hundreds. I think I got the pouch and accessories for an extra $4.99 per 4 mags purchased. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I did a mag count last night; something I had been planning on doing for months simply because it's been years since I last took inventory. My big surprise? Apparently I'm sitting on about $5,000 worth of AK-74 magazines! All those minty Russian Plums and East German Bakelites I bought for under $10/each back between 2003 - 2006 are now...not under $10 anymore. The Russian Plums look new and most are still in the sealed plastic bag. I looked up the price and holy cow...people are now paying $60-$80/each for these "M"-marked Russian mags in excellent condition. Almost the same for the EG Bakelites, too. Buying the right "gun stuff" can be a good investment! I have a bunch of those too. Yes, absolutely they're worth money now! If your EG mags are in like-new condition (many of them were) you can easily fetch $50 per mag. Even if they're "well-used" but they work you can get $25-$35 per mag. I bought my EG Bakelites in 2004 for $7.99/each. I had JUST missed them being on sale for $3.99/each. Back in the early 2000's they could barely give these things away. I bought a bunch but wish I had bought hundreds. I think I got the pouch and accessories for an extra $4.99 per 4 mags purchased. |
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I keep thinking about buying more. But then I can’t think of a single reason for needing any more.
I imagine a lot of people will be in this boat. There will be no “flipping “ mags, if they’re banned. So no reason to buy as an investment, like ammo. |
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Quoted: This. There are probably more than a billion AR mags out there now. There will be an archeologist 10,000 years from now digging up Pmag after Pmag and thinking "What the fuck are all these things for? Most are still in this plastic wrap." View Quote Hardest I’ve laughed in a while. I keep snickering when I think of the plastic wrap. |
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Quoted: I have 2 Glocks, don't have a single completed AR and have no lowers* (yet! ), am crazy poor, and I probably have about 3 full duffle bags of mags. When I move, it's going to be difficult and I barely have any tools or furniture. I'm going to have to fill up whatever truck I get with gun stuff and rent a trailer for normal people stuff. I'd rather have a trailer accident with my clothes and things than my guns. *Really hard to get stuff here View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: If you don't have 100 AR and Glock 17 mags right now you are stupid as fuck. Ok, maybe not 100, but as many as you think you and your family will need forever. I have 2 Glocks, don't have a single completed AR and have no lowers* (yet! ), am crazy poor, and I probably have about 3 full duffle bags of mags. When I move, it's going to be difficult and I barely have any tools or furniture. I'm going to have to fill up whatever truck I get with gun stuff and rent a trailer for normal people stuff. I'd rather have a trailer accident with my clothes and things than my guns. *Really hard to get stuff here Your post make willy sad. Chin up noob. |
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Quoted: The guys with 40 ars and 500 mags with no armor, comms, NV etc. Also crack me up. View Quote Attached File |
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Quoted: The guys with 40 ars and 500 mags with no armor, comms, NV etc. Also crack me up. View Quote Gosh..it is almost like people should come together and make best use of the things they have for the good of the group.. Instead of being insulting and condescending. I think the time is past for being an isolated selfish asshat. |
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I'm still waiting for magpul to make mags that will fit the sig p320 guns. Sig wants $50 each or something crazy like that, and they can fuck off for that price.
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Quoted: Everyone I know already has 20+ AR mags. Most people dont need or want 100 of them. Shit I would bet 5-10 is enough for most AR owners. Plus the Dems are getting trickier, if they do a mag ban there either wont be grandfathering and/or they will ban all sales of them, new, used, private, etc. View Quote Lol no one is going to care at that point. People will be selling old stock or printing new mags on 3d printers. |
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Quoted: And the new AR owners think one is enough! View Quote I can remember when a couple of mags for a rifle and three for a pistol were plenty. The 1994 happened. I just ordered a bunch of Glock and Sig 226/228 mags and more Ak mags. Last night I tried to order 30 more Pmags and 20 more DSG Mags but the damn website was trying to back order me. |
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Quoted: I keep thinking about buying more. But then I can’t think of a single reason for needing any more. I imagine a lot of people will be in this boat. There will be no “flipping “ mags, if they’re banned. So no reason to buy as an investment, like ammo. View Quote Yes, because some walking bag of dicks in a suit decreeing that thou shalt not sell mags will send forth magical no-selling rays and halt any attempted transactions through the sheer power of will. And also, you think they're not going to go after ammo sales? For the "10 mags" crowd... how many magazines constitutes a loadout for you? (And we're being honest here, so 1 in the gun and 1 in a back pocket is a totally legit loadout) Let's say it's 2. 10 mags is 5 loadouts' worth. OK, so 2 with the gun... 2 with the other gun (you better have a backup cached separately), that leaves 3 loadouts' worth to cover breakages, losses, and needing to lend out to a buddy. If your loadout is 5 mags... then 10 just isn't going to cut it unless you intend your first fight or two to be your last. And this doesn't even take into consideration how you're going to arm kids or grandkids. |
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Quoted: its not just about ar mags. how many mags do you have for your ccw pistol? your home defense pistol? pistols your interested in buying down the road? your semi auto 22 rifles? your womans ccw gun? have you considered your kids and grandkids, and picked up some extra mags and such for the coming generation of shooters needing self defense guns / mags? in this thread we see people who have never lived thru a mag ban and fail to understand its long term effects, on both shooters and the coming generations of shooters and this thread makes me sad as fuck as its filled with extreme short sightedness. View Quote Exactly... a lot of "no use buying them if you can't fill 'em". You should have been buying ammo, etc. for the years leading up to this. Who didn't see this coming? Magazines are still available at decent prices, amazingly. I keep telling the same people I've been telling for years to buy what you want now, because bad times are coming, and they still aren't hearing it. |
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[#44]
They are until they aren't. Ammo was cheaper and plentiful before 2020. Look at the sorry state it's in now.
It all depends on how big and when the next run is. |
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[#45]
Shelves are bare for mags where I live. I usually pick one up when I go to the store. Just need a few more FN pistol mags and mp5/ump mags.
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The people who know already have a shit ton.
The people who don't know think 1-3 is all they need. |
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I have about 10 to 15 per gun or caliber. I'd buy more mags, if I thought I'd ever have a use for them. Magazines are cheaper than ammo these days.
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I am looking forward to selling overpriced magazines in the future, to people with the same mindset as a lot of you.
This place has changed a lot over the years. |
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