Before I start, a little bit of history: In 1995 while living in the US yours truly found a rather large loophole in the US Federal ban on 11+ magazines, namely that all the component parts are unregulated, so it was still legal to manufacture or import them as "replacement parts kits", to legally assemble them you had to take a pre-ban magazine (e.g. a $5 AK-47 magazine) and destroy it and "replace" all the parts with whatever parts you have. ATF didn't seem to mind this very much as having people getting rid of 30-round magazines and replacing them with 15-round magazines was fine by them, the problem was that some people were assembling the parts into magazines without destroying another magazine, or alternatively were going on holiday in a foreign country and illegally importing magazines that were indistinguishable from pre-ban magazines. Well, it would appear ATF has done some arm-twisting or something has happened, because I just bought a deactivated Glock (manufactured this year) and the magazines are stamped on the back "RESTRICTED IN U.S.A.-POST 9.13.94" Glock doesn't have to legally do this, because the mags sold to cops in the US say "LE/Govt Use Only 9.13.94" on the back of them. Mags made in the US but shipped over here have to have "For Export Only" stamped on them. This is something Glock have decided to do on their own, or with some cajoling from someone in the US Government. The net effect of course is to make it impossible to disassemble the mags overseas and import them as parts kits into the US. I will have to check other brands and see if they're doing the same thing. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
