Quote Originally Posted by Bailey Guns View Post
Huh...I must've missed that part. LEOs couldn't just walk into a gun shop and buy standard mags. You had to have a letter from your department, on dept letterhead, stating exactly what the mags were for and who would use them. It was generally a PITA. The letter was to be filed with the 4473 in cases where a gun (like an AR-15) was purchased or kept on file with the FFL if it was just mags.
A family friend recently retired as a commander from a metro agency and he was telling me the department wasn't sure how to handle acquiring the magazines from officers who bought them. They were forcing officers to give the PD their purchased magazines when they left the agency and not compensating them, unknown how long, until someone finally made a stink about it and said the agency had to compensate them for the property if they weren't going to let the officers keep the mags.