Well, if you’re gonna have an Uzi (or two), you’re gonna need mags….right?
Fifty oughtta be a good start. And I’ve a few other accessories for the new acquisition that have started trickling in.
This was a 50-mag package from Atlantic Firearms. These are 25-rd mags and, thoguh used, they appear to be in pretty good shape. I need to thoroughly examine each one closely, but so far they all look good.
12 bucks a piece great price
Be sure to check them for cracked feed lips. The Israeli 25-rounders were notorious for over-heat-treated lips. If you find any with cracked lips just wrap the bottom with red duck tape, to designate them for range/fun shooting only.
I would love to be there to clean your house out when you die! Lol it would be a dream come true
Commander:
Two guns. Fifty mags (to begin with!)
Not even your go-to.
When is too much too much?
Ceejay
Since theyre going to be SBR’d, and all the attendant paperwork that goes with that, its likely I’ll be sitting on these he rest of my life. Assuming my meter still has about twenty years on it, that means 25 magazines have to last me twenty years. Thats twenty years of not losing a magazine, having it break, forgetting it at the range, losing it in a car theft, etc, etc. How many magazines do you feel a person should have for a gun that has to last them the next twenty years? I’ve addressed this before. Go read the tail of this post.
To each his own, Liberty, etc, etc, – Just for discussion purposes
Following your logic to it’s conclusion it still kind’ve doesn’t make sense.
As your 4th, 5th, 6th, 10th (?) level backup: If no SHTF, you could take these to the range once a year for testing and cleaning and then literally throw away the mag you used every time, and still end up with 5 left per gun at the end of your 20 years.
Or if S does HTF, as your 5th level backup your hypothetical group of 10 people could get into could into 40 or 50 gun fights, losing or throwing away every single rifle and mag in the process (and somehow survive) before even arriving at using these.
Selfishly I’m arguing this because I’d like to see you get your remote property so we can all benefit from your learning and posts as you set that up.
How many remote-land payments are passed up for the 19th level backup set of firearms – how many years of your aforementioned 20 will you not have on the property to have that 19th level back.
Just my .02, again all in good fun
Well, first, youre comparing apples to oranges. Magazines vs land. Theyre both items I want to purchase, but the land isnt an Uncertain Good. It’s pretty unlikely that the next Congress is going to prohibit me from purchasing land, but there’s a better-than-zero chance that they will do something to prohibit me from buying magazines. So, say, ten years from now, I’ll still be able to buy land if I want but I may not be able to buy more magazines. So, since theres a higher chance of a magazine ban than there is a land ban, it seems to make sense to get the mags. All this to say that it isnt’ as cut-and-dried as it seems. There are other factors to take into consideration.
As for the depth of redundancy and where you draw the line. The Uzis arent a first or second choice. But, as I mentioned, they (will) have a unique property – being an NFA weapon. Because of that, its pretty unlikely I’ll ever get rid of them since it’s more of a pain in the ass to do so than, say, a 10/22 carbine. So, its a virtual certainty that I’ll be holding onto those guns for the next twenty years. Since I know I’ll be holding onto them for that length of time, it makes sense to have the magazines to last me for that length of time.
1994 – 2004 ring a bell for you?