Limit Of Rounds To Carry In Magazine

Laws limiting you never apply to government agencies....

 

Bingo!

 

Because California has capacity limits, you'll just have to check with your gun dealer to find out if it's available to you.

 

Well, that's a little different then. I'm sure as a peace officer you'll be able to use it, but I wouldn't doubt that once you clock out, the mag has to be locked up. You're still a civilian after all. I don't know if there's an off duty exemption from gun laws for police.

 

After having spent more than half my life with a Colt 1911-A1 fitted with a 7 round magazine, I fail to see the disadvantage to carrying 10 rounds of 45 acp in the pistol? In earlier days we used to carry 2 extra 7 round magazines on our belts and never loaded an 8th round into the chamber on top of a fully charged magazine because that might have caused a top round jam.

Today, I carry a Glock Model G-21. That's 13 rounds in the pistol and 17 more rounds carried as backup inside an Arredondo magazine on my belt. That's 30 rounds in total! OK, shooting style and technique have changed; so, I'll grant that 30 rounds today doesn't equate to the same thing as 21 rounds yesterday.

Nowadays, a combat pistol tends to be fired, either, twice or thrice every time that it's used. Roughly speaking the total 30 rounds I carry, today, equate to the spare 14 rounds I carried yesterday. This means that today's different self-defense methods and pistol firing techniques have effectively reduced the greater amount of ammunition I'm presently carrying by more than half!

This being said: I, too, really like and trust my G-21's. All pistol ammunition performs, at best, only marginally. Still, with a longer barrel and larger heavier bullets my G-21's hit about as hard (and as often) as I could hope for out of any combat handgun.

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Now -

 

Far enough that you couldn't carry the pistol with the Arredondo extension installed in the gun. If you did, you'd be, 'patterning' just about every time you moved. I carry mine, straight up and down, on my belt; it's strictly a backup magazine. Still, the Arredondo magazine runs flawlessly and is not, at all, difficult to carry.

If you carry a Glock with a backup magazine then, as far as I'm concerned, it might as well be an Arredondo.