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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:33:46 AM EDT
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FJB
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:34:40 AM EDT
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Because the vast majority of AR owners have bought enough to last a lifetime already.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:36:13 AM EDT
[#3]
Give it a few weeks.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:36:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Because the vast majority of AR owners have bought enough to last a lifetime already. This. You don't consume magazines. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:37:21 AM EDT
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Most people have 3-4 magazines for each gun they own and thats more than enough.
I understand why they are sitting on the shelves |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:38:06 AM EDT
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Because they made a fuck ton of them and they are easy to produce
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:38:06 AM EDT
[#7]
What good are mags with no ammo to put in them?
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:39:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Because the vast majority of AR owners have bought enough to last a lifetime already. SPNI. Millions were cranked out prior to the 2016 election JIC FHRC won. The market was flooded with mags for a period after and that flood was a significant representation of stocking up during the salad days. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:39:07 AM EDT
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The $4.99 mag deal from GO in November might of relieved some pressure for enthusiasts like ourselves.
 Might be an indicator of how many mags are on the market right now, and also an indicator that many people believe they have what they need.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:39:54 AM EDT
[#10]
Most people dont have ammo to put in them?
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:40:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Because the vast majority of AR owners have bought enough to last a lifetime already. This. I've only had 3 aluminum mags and 2 pmags fail in all the years i've been shooting. Most of those were from drops on cement or doing something dumb like throwing a brick in the back of the truck and smashing an empty mag. I think i've lost a couple too, i know a 20 rounder fell out of my jacket coyote hunting a couple winters ago. At that rate of consumption i'm generationally ok for mags. 
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:40:37 AM EDT
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because despite the blah blah i lived through the first AWB bullshit from boomers that first go around, magazines dont get lost or broken anywhere NEAR as much as the fudds say they do.
10 PMAGs will last your run of the mill AR owner 50 fuckin years. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:41:41 AM EDT
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I found a guy on GB selling a ton of mags. Cases were $800 pre GA runoff. Then $989 after. Now they are at $1200.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:42:09 AM EDT
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And yet once news of a proposed federal ban on “high capacity” magazines starts making the rounds, they’ll be gone in 3 days
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:43:44 AM EDT
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The people that know, already have mags.
The newbies haven't seen the flag go up yet. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:43:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: because despite the blah blah i lived through the first AWB bullshit from boomers that first go around, magazines dont get lost or broken anywhere NEAR as much as the fudds say they do. 10 PMAGs will last your run of the mill AR owner 50 fuckin years. If you train regularly, 10 mags will not last 50 years. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:44:51 AM EDT
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted: If you train regularly, 10 mags will not last 50 years. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: because despite the blah blah i lived through the first AWB bullshit from boomers that first go around, magazines dont get lost or broken anywhere NEAR as much as the fudds say they do. 10 PMAGs will last your run of the mill AR owner 50 fuckin years. If you train regularly, 10 mags will not last 50 years. Do you believe the run of the mill AR owner trains regularly? |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:45:49 AM EDT
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Quoted: Or is this short lived? as soon as biden does a potus speech screeching about banning assault rifles and high cap mags... they will vanish lickity split. i ordered 30 glock 9mm magazines yesterday alone. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:46:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you train regularly, 10 mags will not last 50 years. So train with 5 and keep 5 for a loadout? |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:48:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This. I've only had 3 aluminum mags and 2 pmags fail in all the years i've been shooting. Most of those were from drops on cement or doing something dumb like throwing a brick in the back of the truck and smashing an empty mag. No doubt. I own like 30 mags. In my 10 years of shooting, I've had 2 mags go "bad". One was a 20rd PMAG where the follower would bind up as it traveled up the magazine and the other was a metal 30rd with a similar problem. My guess is I smashed them enough to flex the case transporting them or something. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:48:50 AM EDT
[#21]
Volume is king.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:49:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So train with 5 and keep 5 for a loadout? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: If you train regularly, 10 mags will not last 50 years. So train with 5 and keep 5 for a loadout? and when mags are hard to get due to a ban, they become REALLY sought after..... ranges will be targeted for theft, and someone steals your range bag out of your car... then what? id just go back home and pop open a ammo can and pick the new mags to use from a wide variety of spare mags... if you only had 5 - 10 total, your now fucked. what about your future kids / grandkids? you want to pass on a few 15 / 30 rd mags to your new son and daughter / grand kids? you might want more than 10 on hand to do that. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:50:16 AM EDT
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I love buying mags. After the last go round I just buy a few every time I'm at the store and I too am shocked they aren't all sold out. I think it's largely due to the panic this time is mostly comprised of a lot of newer shooters that don't know the magazines are targeted as heavily as they are. Wait until Biden starts actively talking about magazines and I imagine there will be a run.
I have been meaning to get just a couple more 40 round PMAGs before I'm satisfied this time, but they seem to be out of stock everywhere. It might be starting real soon. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:51:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you train regularly, 10 mags will not last 50 years. Wut? I have friends still using mags they carried in Cental and South America in the eighties. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:51:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Most people have 3-4 magazines for each gun they own and thats more than enough. I understand why they are sitting on the shelves Shit, was I wrong to buy 20? |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:52:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Because the vast majority of AR owners have bought enough to last a lifetime already. 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." |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:52:33 AM EDT
[#27]
What are people supposed to fill them with?
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:54:55 AM EDT
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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. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:54:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The people that know, already have mags. The newbies haven't seen the flag go up yet. I think this is it. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:55:03 AM EDT
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5 years into the clinton mag ban, i never encountered anyone who said " man, im glad i didnt buy more mags when they were cheap and easy to get " / " im totally happy with my 10 ar mags and 3 glock mags..
i wonder why? i did encounter tons of new shooters who cried hard that they could not afford $100 buck 15 rd glock mags to use in their shiny new 10 rd g-17 / g-19 etc. and many wished their dad etc had bought some extra to hand down to them. though. 
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:56:33 AM EDT
[#31]
Pepperidge farms remembers
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:56:42 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Because the vast majority of AR owners have bought enough to last a lifetime already. This |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:56:57 AM EDT
[#33]
I've picked up another 10 pack off PSA but I figure 30 will last me. Not much to put in them these days in any event.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:57:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What good are mags with no ammo to put in them? Nailed it. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:57:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Because the vast majority of AR owners have bought enough to last a lifetime already. This, and they're easy as shit to make. A magazine is essentially just a small plastic or metal box with a spring and another piece of plastic inside. The manufacturers all ramped up capacity in 2013 and can keep cranking them out by the truckload. Ammo is a lot more complicated. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:57:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What good are mags with no ammo to put in them? They are a currency among gun people, like $10 and $20 bills. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:58:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Because the vast majority of AR owners have bought enough to last a lifetime already. Came to post this |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:59:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Most people dont have ammo to put in them? No need to buy serially, i.e. ammo first and mags second. That order can be reversed with no ill effect. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 10:59:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What good are mags with no ammo to put in them? ammo will come back, might be a little more expensive, but it will come back.. banned mags not so much. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 11:00:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The people that know, already have mags. The newbies haven't seen the flag go up yet. This. The newbies seem to be happy with their 2 to 6 magazines. Once they live through a ban scare, they will come to the realization that those are rookie numbers. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 11:00:33 AM EDT
[#41]
200 dollar tax per mag adds up
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Posted: 1/20/2021 11:00:51 AM EDT
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Everyone who’s owned an AR for a while already has more than they need. Everyone who is buying their first one probably doesn’t realize they should buy a ton of mags and gets maybe five, max. Any Fudds who are buying an AR probably only buys one mag, because when are they going to need more than 20 or 30 rounds?
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Posted: 1/20/2021 11:01:15 AM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: What good are mags with no ammo to put in them? |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 11:02:31 AM EDT
[#44]
The AR market has this covered. And here I am, unable to find any 10rd mags for my HK.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 11:03:57 AM EDT
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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. 
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Posted: 1/20/2021 11:05:01 AM EDT
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Yep, those of us who have been through this already know the game and have been ready. I don't think I'll buy another AR or AK mag as long as I live. I could still use more SCAR 17 and SR 25 mags long term, but I have enough to not buy at a premium.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 11:06:27 AM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Because the vast majority of AR owners have bought enough to last a lifetime already. And the new AR owners think one is enough! 
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Posted: 1/20/2021 11:07:28 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Because the vast majority of AR owners have bought enough to last a lifetime already. Backpacks, carriers, belts, guns... all full of magazines. Going through my range bag last night there were four empties. Another half a dozen under the back seat of my truck. The men in blue helmets will have pinned me down and poked me full of holes long before I'll ever need to reload a mag. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 11:09:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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 and this thread makes me sad as fuck as its filled with short sightedness. Been buying all the mags the past 6 months since ammo has been unobtanium at even a decent panic level price. I still need another RAR 308 mag though as I only have one 
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Posted: 1/20/2021 11:10:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What are people supposed to fill them with? The ammo that was widely available and cheap for YEARS. At least, that’s what the ants will fill them with. The grasshoppers...not so much. ETA: In 2019 I remember getting, like, two marketing emails per week from SG Ammo. Each email started with something like this: “Folks, ammo is now widely available and the cheapest it has been in years! You had better stock up because we can promise you this will not last. We’ve ‘been there, done that’. Buy it now or regret not buying it later.” In other words...it’s not as if people weren’t warned. But just as we saw with toilet paper last March - and are seeing with ammo now - a majority of Americans simply aren’t prepared for the proverbial lights to go out tomorrow |
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