Sam Adams
Member
Back in September, just after the AWB died, I ordered 6 magazines from TAPCO. These were supposed to be unused 30-rounders, Teflon coated with green followers, and were advertised as having been made and marked as being for law enforcement use only during the ban. The price was good ($11.99 each), and I wanted a piece of history - a genuine banned magazine that I could show to my kids and anyone else that I would like to teach about the idiocy of the AWB and gun control.
Fast forward to today - I finally got the mags. They are, indeed, new Teflon-coated 30-rounders with green followers. They are all manufactured by D&H Industries, Inc., and the floorplates say "Restricted Law Enforcement Government Use Only." OK, fine. EXCEPT that the floorplates themselves have the following code: 04T04. This says to me that they were made in the 4th quarter of 2004, i.e. AFTER the AWB expired. Further, 5 of the mags have "12 04" stamped into the body of the mag itself, and 1 has "1 05" stamped into the side. I strongly suspect that these mags were made AFTER the AWB expired, and that they therefore do NOT live up to being an authentic piece of history.
BTW, I called TAPCO and the guy on the phone said that they were pre-ban mags. Of course he did - he didn't want me to return the product. However, in view of the length of time needed to deliver them to me, I think that these are freshly made, not something that suddenly was found in a warehouse after sitting there for a few years.
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Fast forward to today - I finally got the mags. They are, indeed, new Teflon-coated 30-rounders with green followers. They are all manufactured by D&H Industries, Inc., and the floorplates say "Restricted Law Enforcement Government Use Only." OK, fine. EXCEPT that the floorplates themselves have the following code: 04T04. This says to me that they were made in the 4th quarter of 2004, i.e. AFTER the AWB expired. Further, 5 of the mags have "12 04" stamped into the body of the mag itself, and 1 has "1 05" stamped into the side. I strongly suspect that these mags were made AFTER the AWB expired, and that they therefore do NOT live up to being an authentic piece of history.
BTW, I called TAPCO and the guy on the phone said that they were pre-ban mags. Of course he did - he didn't want me to return the product. However, in view of the length of time needed to deliver them to me, I think that these are freshly made, not something that suddenly was found in a warehouse after sitting there for a few years.
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