"Special" Magazines

[rokwell]

Hi:

You'll enjoy this one.....This on ebay:

US M1 .30 Carbine Magazine RARE MFG MARKING (SP) STANDARD PRODUCTS | eBay

The claim made is actually true, BUT....less is more?
Anyone else figured out what's going on here? Get it?

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[Clash77]

They don't appear to be pinned, so I suspect that either the seller is lying so ebay doesn't remove his listing, or there's some kind of different follower to restrict capacity.

[Bill Hollinger]

Everyone selling M1 carbine magazines is listing them as 10 rounds because of eBay's 10 round limit magazine policy.

[USGI]

I didn't read all the descriptions, but he's got a bunch of other mags too. Isn't (SP) Seymour Products, though? Lot's of funny things here like the "hardback" and even his username. I've noticed that a lot of sellers say, "this mag will hold 10 rounds" - yes, they will.
- Bob

[rokwell]

Like Bill & USGI said, I also have noticed quite a few 10 round M1 Carbine magazines posted for sale. I look to buy a few now & then, and I was just overlooking these until the other day when it dawned on me what they must be doing, esp. when you look at them and they really look the same as any other USGI magazine. Have to admit I passed up a few and at good prices because of the 10 round description (just was not reconciling with the brain case housing group)

[DaveHH]

Those of us in Politburo Kalifornia have to run what we owned before the thumb came down. I'm lucky to have owned a carbine in the 60s and have quite a few. It is sad to see some guy at the range single shotting his cool carbine because he has no magazines.

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

My range said they don't care, bring what you want. But I have had many before the thumb too. Thing is, how would they know when you got them. You didn't have to register the GI mags.

[imarangemaster]

CA laws do suck, but having been an FFL from the 1980 to 2006, and having had numerous guns in my LEO career, having had registered ARs and AKs back in the day, I have pre-2000 high capacity for all my weapons, and even some I no longer have. Between 15s and 30s, I have about 50 USGI carbine magazines still.

[shadycon]

Hi:

You'll enjoy this one.....This on ebay:

US M1 .30 Carbine Magazine RARE MFG MARKING (SP) STANDARD PRODUCTS | eBay

The claim made is actually true, BUT....less is more?
Anyone else figured out what's going on here? Get it?

Did anyone notice that some of the sellers claim that "ALL" the mags they sell are "RARE", no matter what manufacture.

[Bill Ricca]

It definitely was Seymour Products, a spare parts contract.