YaGunT: What are Maglocks used for in AR15 mags? (PIC)

[JEDI]

i'm assuming the maglock is the bar across the 2 mags?

what's the point?

and whats the point of a removable floor plate?

THX

 

[olds]

Why do you want to know?

 

[DayLaPaul]

Your first mistake was assuming. Your second was going out and finding a picture to go along with your incorrect assumption.

A magazine lock is a device to bring an firearm into compliance with California assault weapons law.

What it does is creates a non-detachable magazine, which makes it exempt from much of the assault weapons restrictions.

 

[olds]

 

[SSSnail]

Basically, it's to disable the quick release function of magazine. You can still remove it, just not quickly.

To answer your second question, parts do wear out and don't function as they should, you figure the rest out.

 

[JEDI]

Your first mistake was assuming. Your second was going out and finding a picture to go along with your incorrect assumption.

A magazine lock is a device to bring an firearm into compliance with California assault weapons law.

What it does is creates a non-detachable magazine, which makes it exempt from much of the assault weapons restrictions.

ahh...

then what is that bar across the 2 mags?

Basically, it's to disable the quick release function of magazine. You can still remove it, just not quickly.

To answer your second question, parts do wear out and don't function as they should, you figure the rest out.

thx for the info about removable floor plate.

 

[boomhower]

AR's in California are required to have a bullet button. What it does is make it harder to change mags. Instead of having a standard mag release you have to use a tool to release you magazine, as the name says a bullet is the most common and readily available tool for the job.

What you have pictured is a magazine coupler with the point being faster initial magazine changes. I use one of these on my work gun: http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=27286/Product/AR-15-M16-AR-STYLE-308-FASTMAG-PMAG-COUPLER

Removable floor plates are necessary to rebuild them. Internals of magazine wear out, assuming you actually use them.

 

[pontifex]

a mag coupler?

this is in response to his question about the bar holding the 2 mags, not the original question.

 

[JEDI]

What you have pictured is a magazine coupler with the point being faster initial magazine changes.

so it's like duct taping 2 mags together (albeit in opposite directions) ala the bad guys in one of the Die Hard movies?

or angelina jolie in Salt when blasting thru the concrete wall to get to the door controls.

except the bar is more secure/reliable than duct tape? 🙂

 

[boomhower]

so it's like duct taping 2 mags together (albeit in opposite directions) ala the bad guys in one of the Die Hard movies?

or angelina jolie in Salt when blasting thru the concrete wall to get to the door controls.

except the bar is more secure/reliable than duct tape? 🙂

No, they go in the same direction. Hit the mag release, pull out mag, move over a couple inches, and reinsert mag. Much quicker than dropping the mag and pulling one from a pocket, mag carrier, etc.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

except the bar is more secure/reliable than duct tape? 🙂

Nothing is more secure and reliable than duct tape.