Un-Gelding 10 round mags

[Carbon_15]

Anyone planing to modify 10 rounders to full capacity after the ban?
I have a few glock Klinton mags that I am thinking about moding after September. What kind of tool could I use? DO they make a long shanked grinding bit for the Dremel?

 

[Tamara]

Most of them are designed to be un-modifiable without destroying the mag tube.

 

[Jason Demond]

There is no way you could modify a Klintoon Glock mag, other that putting a +2 extention on it without destroying it.
There are some mags (S&W), that were made to fall apart if they were messed with.
I am not sure of others.

You would be better of buying new mags.

 

[Badger Arms]

The vast majority of Klinton magazines are unmodifiable. Don't bother trying, you'd do much better to just buy new standard-capacity magazines and be happy.

Some advice: BUY MANY, BUY SOON after they are legal. Load up because you never know when the next ban will come. 50 years ago, it was quite common for guns to come with a single magazine and nothing more. If there is one thing the AWB did, it was to cause an exponential jump in the popularity of extra mags. So much is this that it's not uncommon to find guns with 10 or 20 extra magazines expecially when talking about autoloading rifles.

 

[Jim Watson]

Each individual design of Klinton Klip had to be approved by the BATmen to 1. hold ONLY ten rounds, and
2. not be readily convertible to full capacity.

I guess you could take one of the all steel magazines with the cuts 80% of the way around and weld them up, broach out the inside, grind down the outside, and replace spring and follower. Then hope it worked. I haven't been into a Glock low IQ magazine to see how they are made.

 

[Treylis]

I know that apparently some of the Browning High-Power mags are supposed to be easy to modify back to standard capacity, but, as others have noted, the Glock ones are too crippled.

 

[Ivy Mike]

I'm going to purchase some full capacity mags (assuming FN releases them) for my Forty-Nine and then try to modify my 10 rounders. If I screw them up, its no big loss. My mags look like they might come apart if modified, but with a spot weld here or there, they should be fine. FN really needs to release those magazines though.

 

[Jerry the Geek]

If you're using single-stack magazines ... no advantage, really. Keep them

Everybody else .. use know what to do.

When the AWB ban goes away, for which all good Americans devoutly pray, tubes will be priced according to merit instead of for rarity.
Get new magazine tubes. You can use the followers and the base-pads from your old 10-round magazines. Sometimes you can even use the springs. Gotta replace your springs for double-stack magazines? I recommend STI springs. They last longer.

Jerry the Geek

 

[WonderNine]

The magazines with the plastic removable bottoms should be able to be modified back after the ban if the manufactorers make an accessory. The mags with the split down the middle and the dimple to stop the follower from going down any further....good luck.

 

[c_yeager]

On the other hand people who live in states with their own AWBs would probably be really happy to buy those neutered magazines after the rest of us in the free work replace them with new standard-caps.

 

[SapperLeader]

I have 6 xd-9 magazines that Im going to take a shot at changing after the ban sunsets. Looking at them, it looks like it will be fairly easy to change the springs and basepad. I think they just use a bigger pad than a standard capacity as I dont see any dimples on the magazine body.

 

[Walt Sherrill]

If the ban does actually sunset (and not rise again), a lot of the mags with indentation can probably be modified by inserting new or different followers, with cuts in them that would let the follower ride PAST the bump.

For some reason, maybe old age (and experience), I'm sceptical that our politicians will allow the ban to die...