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Pre-ban AR magazine price
- Thread starter Mark L
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Ar mags are plentiful. Most people will charge 30 or so per, sometimes with new followers or refinished exterior. Most stores at least in my neck of the woods charge $45 (ludicrous). Always some up for grabs in the Classifieds
$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.
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.
Stryker
NES Member
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.
+1 on this
Machines
NES Member
They're really not worth the money most people ask for them in Mass. Don't forget that they made them from 1965-1994 for every country that uses the AR platform and in about 47 states they're just old mags that no one wants as long as new Pmags are $8. After I built my AR I bought hundreds of pre-bans for $5-10 ea from various sellers on Arfcom. Kept a bunch and sold the rest locally for around $15-20. Seeing them in local gun shops for $40-50 is crazy.
Just keep in mind 90% of the preban mags have no dates but they're pretty easy to ID.
Just keep in mind 90% of the preban mags have no dates but they're pretty easy to ID.
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Don't buy them in Mass. Buy them elsewhere and pay $15/each or less. Easy to find them online in various forums.
CWulf
NES Member
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 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 too bought mine from 55_grain, great seller. The ones I bought from him were brand new unused external dated in sealed packaging that was also dated.
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?
If you're vacationing or passing through a free state (one some distance away from NE) this summer stop in some pawn shops or gun stores and root through their boxes of old mags for date codes. I had one store that felt sorry for me and brought out all hands to root with me. I think my success rate was ~2 prebans for every 100 mags examined. But still, it was worth the time.
Machines
NES Member
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.
the_shootist
Banned
That seems so silly. It's so difficult to even identify pre ban magazines, they are identical in fit and function to the post ban ones, yet MA gun owners need to go through this hell to find one. It just doesn't make any sense Batman!!!
Machines
NES Member
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.
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.
the_shootist
Banned
The whole thing is silly....it's just thin gauge sheet aluminum for chrissakes. Way too much evil in the world
