Missed this when it happened!

Wishbone

New Member
LAS VEGAS -- When the Marine Corps announced in December it was authorizing Magpul's PMAG Gen 3 magazine for operational use with the M4, M16 and M27 rifles, the company celebrated the news on its social media accounts.

"In light of the results from an enormous body of reliability and durability testing and 4 years of combat use, today it was announced that the PMAG 30 AR/M4 GEN M3 Window, in Black and Medium Coyote Tan (MCT), would be the official magazine of the entire United States Marine Corps," company staff wrote Dec. 20.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/...l-of-pmag-may-lead-to-international-buys.html

Too bad Magpul isn't publicly traded.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Nice ....

considering at one point one of the Services, Army I think, banned them from use, March 2012
ah I missed where The Army reversed that a few months later
 

Wishbone

New Member
Don't understand why they didn't switch over years ago. Lighter, cheaper, more resistant to damage.

Some of the decisions made about equipment defy all logic.
 

black dog

Free America
Don't understand why they didn't switch over years ago. Lighter, cheaper, more resistant to damage.

Some of the decisions made about equipment defy all logic.

I believe at that time the 249 would tear the lips off the plastic magazines.
With magazines being a consumable, it now makes sense to shift over to them.
 
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