M&P Magazines

[Garys]

Apparently they MA compliant ones are different than the non MA ones. I ordered a couple of curved floor plates from Smith for my M&P 9c. When they arrived, I noticed that they were different than the one I already had. A call to Smith customer service revealed that they make different magazines and that the ones I received were for the non MA magazines. They've since sent the right ones, but didn't want the other ones back. So, if anyone has non MA magazines and wants curved floor plates, PM me.

My guess is that they did this so that MA magazines couldn't be converted to hi capacity ones. But, that's just a guess.

 

[Mike-Mike]

Unless you got a 40c. Then they are all the same.

 

[Garys]

That just makes it more confusing. I don't know if these floor plates will fit all non MA magazines or just the 9.

 

[TheRoland]

I have a generally hateful relationship with M&P magazines; they're expensive, always sold out, backordered out the wazoo, and have weird shaped followers.

 

[Len-2A Training]

Unless you got a 40c. Then they are all the same.

Not true.

Baseplates on the 9c hi-cap are different than 9c MA mags. I know because the same thing happened to me as Gary and I compared them side-by-side.

That just makes it more confusing. I don't know if these floor plates will fit all non MA magazines or just the 9.

see above comments.

MA 9c base will fit MA full-size 9 mags and make 9c mags out of them. The hi-cap 9c mag baseplates will probably fit all 40c mags and likely all other hi-cap M&P mags.

 

[Mike-Mike]

Not true.

Baseplates on the 9c hi-cap are different than 9c MA mags. I know because the same thing happened to me as Gary and I compared them side-by-side.

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I am talking about .40c mags. The 40c is a 10 round mag in any state, so why would the MA Mag be any different?

 

[Len-2A Training]

Mike, OK, I just edited my post to make it more clear. We both agree on this point.

 

[terraformer]

My guess is that they did this so that MA magazines couldn't be converted to hi capacity ones. But, that's just a guess.

I suspect it's a good guess. When you see what beretta does, sig and others, they all seem to make them so they can't convert them by causing the steel body to be shorter and the base plate to be longer to the point it's no longer a baseplate but a plastic pedestal. I believe this is hold over from the fed days where there was language saying the mag could not be "readily convertible" IIRC.