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    Blast from the past: AR15 magazine FAQs from the ban days

    Although ammo and com-bloc surplus guns were cheap during the "the ban," I do not miss the lack of options we had for magazines during this time, particularly for the AR15. I remember most non-USGI standard-capacity magazines being junk, since manufacturers quickly churned out mags before the 1994 ban took effect and worried more about quantity than quality. I stumbled across a couple of web pages from the ban era that happen to still be online and cracked up reading them as I remembered being at gun shows sorting through beat-up USGI M16 mags with no finish left sporting prices in the $20-25+ range. I still have a bunch of those mags, as well as the still-sandy Israeli Orlite mags that were common at the time.

    Now I use Pmags and Lancers purchased at half the cost of the old mags.

    Enjoy.

    http://www.biggerhammer.net/ar15/mag...rawlesfaq.html

    http://magfaq.tripod.com/mags2.htm
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    Yes we are much better off now. I wish I could free up enough money to invest in 1000 M16 magazines. I'd call it an investment for retirement.

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    I am so glad the ban was lifted 5 years before I got into "evil" guns. I've never had to deal with that much headache and hopefully never will.
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