New from FAB Defense: NY legal 50-round magazine

[Larsonb]

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-is-not-a-lost-space-marines-prop-from-an-aliens-m-1502777568



It's a new gun industry invention: a "NY legal" 50-round five-magazine part for the AR-15 semi-auomatic air cooled rifle. I can't understand how can this be legal in NY or anywhere else. Just look at the description from The Truth About Guns—you can't miss it:

"The concept is solid and well established on Ruger 10/22 magazines: couple a whole bunch of them together at the floorplate and rotate the contraption when the mag runs dry. But FAB Defense took things a step further, gluing five 10-round magazines to a central spoke to create a New York-legal 50-round arrangement. Well, as near as we can tell NY legal..."

While utterly impractical, it does seem to accomplish its purpose: extending a middle digit to NY gun laws.

[Straw Man]

1. Not new.

The article itself refers to the 10/22, for which this has been available for a long time. It's not a 50-round magazine; it is five 10-round magazines. It has to be manually removed, rotated, and reinserted after every 10 rounds. It is large and unwieldy. Changing a standard 10-round magazine is much quicker and easier.

[sarisataka]

2. not really any different

than taping magazines together. Probably gives many of the same reliability issues...
Separate magazines would still make more sense.

[Eleanors38]

3. Taped mags. Rarely seen in gun threads, but often in war zones.

The practice seems to be the most effective to get around mag limitations in home defense situations. Mass murderers seem to place some value on concealment (standard mag length), a la Virginia Tech.

Perhaps we should outlaw all mags below 30 rounds as the smaller ones are easier to conceal.