Help with identifying mystery AFTERMARKET 32-round Uzi magazine

[nagmashdriver]

Hey guys,

I'm not new at all to the world of Uzis, having carried one in my post-IDF service in the 1980s-1990s. Now that I'm living in the US I own an Atlantic Firearms semi-auto Uzi and love it.

I'm also a longtime seller of guns, etc. on both the Web and at local gunshows which is why I'm stumped to have come across these aftermarket Uzi magazines which will NOT lock up in both my Atlantic and other surplus SMG magazine housings.

I fully realize that surplus Uzi magazines are very cheap, plentiful and excellent quality but this has me scratching my head; why would anyone go to the trouble to make magazines out of a thinner, flimsier piece of metal? I love mysteries and would like to ID these so I can get rid of them, er, um, "sell" them.

 

[dustindu4]

When in doubt, USA Mag. That's just a guess

 

[dustindu4]

Actually I'm 99% sure that's a USA mag

 

[David Hineline]

USA magazines and ProMag are companies that for what ever reason chose to make crap so cheap they just don't work, it would only take 50 more cents in production but they don't. They would rather sell product that does not work. Throw it away.

 

[cajun 22]

Yep. the one on the right is a cheap USA brand mag. Scrap metal.

 

[slimshady]

USA magazines and ProMag are companies that for what ever reason chose to make crap so cheap they just don't work, it would only take 50 more cents in production but they don't. They would rather sell product that does not work. Throw it away.

Comparing USA magazines to Promag is an insult to Promag. Promag occasionally turns out a mag that works. But I agree that looks like a USA mag, the very thin metal and dip paint job gives it away.

 

[Jmacken37]

Promag Saiga drums and HK93 mags are surprisingly OK.

 

[dustindu4]

BTW I identified the mag using Roverdave's uzi book. If you dont have one you should check it out. Worth every penny of 50 bucks

 

[fortyfive1911a1]

I suspect these only exist because there was a point in time where surplus mags, and the highly underrated new IWI mags were not available or cheap.

 

[dustindu4]

USA mags were made pre 94