Army buying over a half million AK mags

[jfeenin]

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2013 ... magazines/

Expect newly manufactured AK magazines to be in short supply in the near future. The Army is soliciting bids to purchase 592,825 7.62x39mm AK magazines.

 

[bigfutz]

Here comes the gouging panic again! So why would any branch of the US anything buy AK mags? Are they trying to cause a panic in the Middle East?

Speaking of mag panic, for anybody who paid more than $10 for a P-Mag in the past 9 months, you can go to PSA in G'ville and look at the 36 cases of them they have on the floor. Don't make that mistake with AK mags.

 

[jfeenin]

That sale is still on? I was under the impression it was opening day only. I may have to run over there tomorrow.

 

[armaborealis]

Here comes the gouging panic again! So why would any branch of the US anything buy AK mags? Are they trying to cause a panic in the Middle East?

I suspect they are for foreign assistance programs. There are lots of people who use AKs that we apparently like to arm.

On the plus side, they aren't being solicited by the DOJ. I'd like to see that order form!
BILL TO: AG, DOJ
SHIP TO: MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS

 

[Tigerstripe]

maybe there is some deception going on.

is our army looking at my you tube vids and upping their caliber, meaning they want AR 762x39 mags, not AK?

 

[Avtomat-Acolyte]

All the guns, mags and ammo we bought to give to the Iraqi Police and Iraqi Army were straight from China.

George W. Bush hates the US Constitution and doesn't want American citizens exercising their Civil Rights, so we can't get any gun stuff from China, so the magazines sourced for this procurement will likely come from the People's Republic and not be from a pool of supplies anyone in the shooting community can even access.

Net result will likely be that we don't even notice.

 

[Avtomat-Acolyte]

maybe there is some deception going on.

is our army looking at my you tube vids and upping their caliber, meaning they want AR 762x39 mags, not AK?

The US has bought millions of dollars worth of 7.62 AK pattern rifles, magazines and ammunition from various countries in the past dozen years.

 

[armaborealis]

All the guns, mags and ammo we bought to give to the Iraqi Police and Iraqi Army were straight from China.

George W. Bush hates the US Constitution and doesn't want American citizens exercising their Civil Rights, so we can't get any gun stuff from China, so the magazines sourced for this procurement will likely come from the People's Republic and not be from a pool of supplies anyone in the shooting community can even access.

Net result will likely be that we don't even notice.

Wasn't that George HW Bush (Bush I) that signed the EO banning imports of "non sporting" stuff from China?

 

[Avtomat-Acolyte]

All the guns, mags and ammo we bought to give to the Iraqi Police and Iraqi Army were straight from China.

George W. Bush hates the US Constitution and doesn't want American citizens exercising their Civil Rights, so we can't get any gun stuff from China, so the magazines sourced for this procurement will likely come from the People's Republic and not be from a pool of supplies anyone in the shooting community can even access.

Net result will likely be that we don't even notice.

Wasn't that George HW Bush (Bush I) that signed the EO banning imports of "non sporting" stuff from China?

I suppose it was. Sometimes I get my tyrants confused.