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$15-20.
Maybe $25 tops if it were NOS with external date stamp.
Think about how many millions of them are out there. Don't rely on the NES classifieds only. Look around on other sites like ar15.com or m4c. It takes some patience to find them for less than $20, but they are out there.
I've gotten my best deals on Ar15.com - usually around $15 give or take - just have to be patience and be ready to jump on it when you see it.
There are a couple of guys in the classifieds that have them between $25-$35.
I bought some from 55_grain in the past and they work fine.
http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/263526-AR-15-mags-USGI-COLT-Isreali-MORE
I was buying them NIW for $25.00 - $30.00 a few months prior to the 94 AWB sun setting.
Paying more than $20.00 used in 2015... walk away.
As has been mentioned, there's a much smaller market for pre-ban mags now.
Yep, Mass is pretty much the only market left. The best I've done recently is a little under $14/each shipped for a lot of 9 NIW 30 rounders.
AR newbie question, where can you buy those items?Keep in mind you will probably need to replace the springs/followers in a lot of these.
AR newbie question, where can you buy those items?
Most prebans were never dated, and a large percentage of the dated ones only had internal markings. Getting to know manufacturers and construction styles will probably turn up a lot more prebans than you think.
It's not hard. Most preban mags are from manufacturers who either stopped making them in 1994 or started dating them then. Paranoid types like to talk up "BUT THEY COULD SWITCH THE FLOORPLATES!" Well if you find a mag from a preban maker, with an old style follower, and a mag body that looks 20 years old, 149 times out of 150 it's a preban mag and if it isn't no one on this planet could tell. I've been through hundreds of them and I only saw one that didn't check out.
Every mag from 1994 until the ban sunset was dated, too. So something undated is either brand new or over two decades old.
Only real concern with faked mags is old floorplates on new bodies. You see them sometimes as "refinished" at gun shows. But it's not common.