Glock magazine splitting

[Bailey Guns]

I Googled "older glock magazines cracking" and got tons of pictures of exactly the same thing, even with FML mags. It obviously happens, even with Glock Perfection.

[Graves]

I was looking at some of my older mags that aren't cracked but I did notice some weird "swirl" paterns from hole to hole as seen on the left column of holes on the third mag from the left...




I'm willing to bet that is where they will eventually crack...

[Wulf202]

I posted about this somewhere here. Its going to happen with any first gen mag left loaded

[ray1970]

Sucks that it cracked. Probably darn near 20 years old anyways. Toss it and spend the money on a new one. Maybe the new one will last another 20 years or so.

[hatidua]

Sucks that it cracked. Probably darn near 20 years old anyways. Toss it and spend the money on a new one.

While that is possible right now in CO with a 15rd mag, imagine being in a state (or point in the future) that doesn't allow new mags over 10rds. Although I understand the "mags are consumables" theory, we are getting to a point where that might become problematic.

[Skip]

While that is possible right now in CO with a 15rd mag, imagine being in a state (or point in the future) that doesn't allow new mags over 10rds. Although I understand the "mags are consumables" theory, we are getting to a point where that might become problematic.

You read my mind. I have a mix of metal/plastic AR mags.

Pistol mags are all metal (Sigs) except for some extensions. I have replacements for those.

I am more worried about a loss event though. There is nothing in the law that allows me to repurchase mags I owned in the event of theft/fire/etc...

That law needs to die!

[kidicarus13]

The magazine is a 15rd + 2 so I guess ow it's, according to Colorado law, a 15rd magazine. When this happens to a G17 mag it won't be such a simple solution.