You know these guys buying hundreds...

However, I just wonder what the heck anyone needs 100's of mags for anyways.

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Uh, dude, haven't you heard about the imminent ZOMBIE INVASION?!?!?!?!?!?!

I can understand a coupla' dozen mags per gun you have, but if guys are buying THOUSANDS, then they better have a lot of ammo and guns to fill that. I know someone who has one AR, and a LOT of mags, 99% of them he doesn't use. Otoh, i understand if people use them...

People are banking on a ban so they can sell them at a profit. They probably sell them at a profit now.

yea, i know, not promags,

might as well just saw off the feed lips in pmags because they will crack anyway, at least the AK ones do

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This statement is full of ignorance, or sarcasm, or something.

Does Magpul makes polymer AK mags??? Doesn't show it on their website The Pmags are some of the BEST AR masg on the market, they are in a different class than most polymer mags.

SilentStalker said:

However, I just wonder what the heck anyone needs 100's of mags for anyways. I mean unless you are the military or something what in the heck are you going to do with that many magazines, besides sell them?

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What do you need an AR-15 for? Unless you're in the military, what are you going to do with it except kill people?
Don't play that stupid game just because you're sore over missing out on a couple PMAGs.

As the sig says,

I'm sorry man, but...

They don't give anyone else a chance to buy anything.

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Boo hoo. You had plenty of chance before this, and you'll have your chance after this. IF you missed your chance, that's not the fault of the guys buying them up now.

"This statement is full of ignorance, or sarcasm, or something"

settle down, i thought you were talking about promags (i know, im the idiot)

Stop with the whining, already.

Really? It's not like Pmags were introduced right before the election...
The writing's been on the wall for how many years, and you wait to pick up Pmags until now?

When the Zombies come you will wish you had a hundred magazines and the bullets to fill them.

I'm sure that they're considering them an "investment" and that's why they are being bought up in such large quantitys at a time.

Think about, with the way things are now and the paranoia among the gun community (for good reason I hear) they could sell for a pretty penny in the future.
If there's another assault weapons ban and it's illegal to sell any newly manufactured hi cap magazines, then all these guys with previously made ones can sell them still, and probably hike up the price.

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they could sell for a pretty penny in the future.

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They're selling for a pretty penny now. BravoCo is doing consumers a favor by offering PMAGs at pre-retarded pricing, so people are picking them up to resell and make a quick buck. If they were stocking them @ $25-30 apiece so as to keep them in stock longer, I'm sure the OP would be complaining about price gouging.

i thought thats what they were for...



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Originally Posted by SilentStalker
However, I just wonder what the heck anyone needs 100's of mags for anyways. I mean unless you are the military or something what in the heck are you going to do with that many magazines, besides sell them?
What do you need an AR-15 for? Unless you're in the military, what are you going to do with it except kill people?
Don't play that stupid game just because you're sore over missing out on a couple PMAGs.

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Does it bother you that I have so many P-Mags that I've begun using them as doorstops, dog toys, and back scratchers?

I also began using the windowed ones in the fridge after filling them with condiments. I can now tell when I'm running low on ketchup with a quick glance.

However, I just wonder what the heck anyone needs 100's of mags for anyways.

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They are pmag collectors. I know why they are doing it. ITs not a mystery. Just go on gun broker and see the guys who are selling them for $40 a pop. Even I got hammered by this. I was forced to pay $25 for my 8 Pmags. Well, any person who is buying quantity like this is turning them around and sellin gthem for twice as much. Actually that gives me a bright idea.. Maybe I should get on the pmag waiting list and when I get them, turn them around for twice as much. Too bad I will have to wait 2 years or so to get them at retail.

Just as bad as being behind the guy buying 20,000 rounds of 223 and clearing out the shelves and all I want is about 200 rounds to shoot gongs with at a few hundred yards.

It's their legal right to do it, but at the same time they are screwing the average person out of buying a couple of mags that want an extra or two, or if the ones they have are originals and are worn out.

It is most likely they are selling them for a profit, in which case can be illegal if they don't claim it on taxes, and they probably aren't. And if they are buying hundreds of mags and keeping them, that's just paranoia, and in my opinion (like anyone gives a crap about my opinion) is stupid and selfish.

But if they are doing it legally, and just profiting off paranoia and fear, so what. I did the same, I took an AR lower I have had setting around and sold it for triple what I paid for it, went to the gun store and bought another brand new one and had a few hundred left over. So what?

Supply and demand, people. Until everyone wanted a pmag, there were several to be had, rather cheaply at that. Why are the people who beat you to the punch the "bad guys"? Once again, its a case of "I didn't want/need/have to have 'em, until I couldn't get them" situation to me. If you had a bit of froresight, finding these mags wasn't all that hard a few months ago. Of course, you probably didn't "need" them then, did you? Am I somehow "wrong" for realizing ammo prices were going up, and buying all the "cheap" ammo I could afford, because I knew it was only going to cost more in a month or two? If you see a rise in demand just around the corner, regardless of product, its wqise to stockup before the prices ge to the point where you cannot afford to. If you missed that boat, who is really to blame?

Do you want the government to step in and regulate this or what ? What happened that you suddenly need these mags?

Since when did USGI mags become unusable garbage? 44mag has new D&H mags for $13 in stock. Buy all you can afford, they will gladly make more.

http://www.44mag.com/prodinfo.asp?number=DH30B

Personally I'm waiting for CMI M14 mags to come back down to $20-22. Since CMI is a government contractor, I'm sure they can make more than we are willing to buy. Manufacturers just need a little time. (I think they are going to get it, too.)

People are banking on a ban so they can sell them at a profit. They probably sell them at a profit now.

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This is what's happening. They are cool and tactical looking. I bet these are the same guys that sell them on ebay for $50/magazine, or try to gouge you at gun shows.

You just have to try and get what you can, when you can. Sure, it's a totally inconsiderate thing to buy all of one store's inventory, but it's for sale and a business is in business to do business.

I'm sure there are just as many guys that buy mags by the 100 that are preparing for their one man tactical assault when the "SHTF" or something like that.

I don't know. Like I said, just get what you can when you can. Once you have 4-5 good magazines, whats the point in buying more anyways? I know about being prepared in case of some sort of magazine ban, but a couple mags should be fine in case you can't get a hold of more.

Around 1990 I bought three 30 rounders for the 10/22. Paid $10 each for them. Didn't care much for the big mags and threw them in a drawer and forgot about them.

In 1996 I remembered them, dug them out and put them up on GunBroker. They sold for an average of $55.

In 2004, right after the AWB expired I bought another one just for fun. It cost $10.

Why do you think some guys are stocking up?

Anyway, that's the free market. Buy what you want when you want and in whatever quantities you want.

As for me, I recall what the late Jeff Cooper once told someone who asked where he bought his Colts. "I don't buy my Colts; I have my Colts."

I am not scrambling around since Nov. 5 trying to buy guns, ammo and magazines. I already had all of those things in long supply.

Hey, for me it was just bad timing. I only recently got an AR. So yeah, it sucks, so does death, but that's just the way it is. The world isn't fair, never has been never will be. There are scumbags who love to pricegouge, charging triple for gas or water during a disaster etc in order to make money from others misfortune. This is just based on paranoia though and we certainly don't want the gov involved. I just hope with the sinking economy and a lack of an AWB these guys will get hosed and end up with a bunch of merchandise they have to sell at a loss. Either way, their punishment is having to live with themselves, ugh.