Magpul has a 20 round magazine for DPMS AR10’s. Pmag’s have long been considered the best polymer magazines for .223 AR15 rifles. Magpul is best known for rebuild kits for USGI magazines and AR15 accessories. Both DPMS and Brownells.com stock the new .308 magazines.
The 308 PMAG will not fit Armalites but will fit a variety of other’s like the Remington R-25, LaRue Tactical OSR, Lewis Machine and Tool (LMT) MRP 7.62 and others. With every Magpul PMAG a molded polymer dust cover is included to use during long-term storage.
University of Alabama Birmingham professor Timothy Kraft, PHD is developing a new gunsight design using his experience as competitive marksman/shooter and Retinal Electrophysiologist. Dr. Kraft is a member of the Vision Science Research Center in Birmingham, AL and has trained with the US Olympic Shooting team.
According to UAB Magazine Kraft “is developing a new kind of gunsight that relies on a trick of the eye to improve a shooter’s aim.” Little information is available about the new sight but trails are expected soon. The sideshow below from the UAB Magazine provides some insight into the groundbreaking new weapon sight.
The video below shows Tim Kraft demonstrating and talking about the new gun site at the very same range I practice.
As new information becomes available I will post and keep you up to date. I look forward to seeing more of the sight. I especially like to see great innovations coming out of a great University in my home town.
I get lots of questions about XDM prices and in doing so I hear prices all over the place that people get quoted. When I purchased my XDM the market demand was lower and It seems that demand for guns is up around the country.
CNN.com is reporting that gun sales have surged since Barack Obama has become President Elect. The CNN article quotes gun shop owner Bernie Conatser – “I have been in business for 12 years, and I was here for Y2K, September 11, Katrina,” Conatser said, as a steady stream of customers browsed what remained of his stock. “And all of those were big events, and we did notice a spike in business, but nothing on the order of what we are seeing right now.” And the LA Times is reporting that the surge is “brisk, particularly for military-style weapons, because people are concerned about stricter gun laws after Barack Obama becomes president and Congress begins leaning more to the left.” Even Alaskan’s are Nervous and Armed according to the Anchorage Daily News.
So what all this means for XDM owners and potential owners is that Gun Shop’s are going to be less willing negotiate on price – while they capitalize on the bubble in the rush to purchase weapons. If you wait the prices will come down but then again you might not be able to purchase it all. I doubt the XDM will be on any list to ban except perhaps a HI-Cap Magazine may be out. But truly nothing will really happen to the XDM. There is a bubble and demand for the weapon so a Price of less than $600 out the door for the .40 S&W in all black and the Bi-tone for $620 is pretty good in the current situation. I suspect that the demand for the 9mm is about $10 more than the .40 S&W.
In a following article I will talk more about the price gouging and what we are really facing. The XDM falls into the sensible weapon category and very little needs to be worried about. Stay tuned for a full analysis of the market situation and what is to come in the political reality of what is to come.
