The return of the Hi-Cap 9mm

[Oceans]

How I remember so well in the late '80s when the Beretta 92, the Glock 17, the Sig 226 were all the rage, people were dumping beautiful Smith revolvers, including pristine model 29s(which in the '70s, you could not get for love nor money) for ridiculously low trade in values on those Hi-cap 9mms. Then after the horrendous Assault weapons ban of '94 the 1911 was all the rage, I even remember some books with esoteric titles like "Zen and the 1911" Every would be closet commando and parlor room pistolero was into the 1911. Revolvers( and of-course the cowboy craze) staged a big comeback in the early 2000s, but now I'm noticing a BIG return to the Hi-cap 9mm, with people trading in all kinds of 1911s, cowboy guns and revolvers for the slick black Euro pistols again. Funny how things come full circle.

 

[VegasAR15]

One of the reasons that I bought my XDM9 was the 'evil high capacity' nineteen round magazine.

 

[sidheshooter]

I traded a stock G19 (with 3 hicap mags and 500 rounds of ammo) and some very minimal amount of cash (like, less than a hundred bucks) at the height of the Clinton hi cap ban madness for three pristine S&W model 65-3s with 3-inch tubes. One went to a friend, my dad has one, and I'm sending the last of them to grant cunningham sometime next year.

I like hysteria.

 

[Black Dime]

Bought in 1975. No modern hi-cap.............yet.