Oh, I like that! I must say that other than the Vector I find carbines that use angled pistol mags to look a little odd, so a legal 10-round stick mag would suit my tastes perfectly. I could probably live with five-rounders, though. Could these new 102s be the start of NEA's redemption?
Look Whats Coming From NEA, 9mm NEA102 Variant
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So NEA would rather make more work for themselves? Did you not see where the mag release is on the gun? Do you know how long the magwell would have to be to use an unmodified Uzi mag? They would have to modify each and every magazine to work in that gun if the gun ends up as pictured. Not very smart, when 9mm AR magazines are built to use the higher up magazine release, and they are also very common on the world market.
And to address the Glock mag not being mass market worldwide, ANY country the Glock is able to be owned in by civilians will have a healthy supply of them. In fact, look no further than the USA for proof of this. The JR carbine, Thureon, and ASR certainly weren't made to cater to Canada's market, there was demand domestically for them there. We just benefitted from that demand.
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I wish good luck to them then. They're going to have to work around this:
http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-98-462/fulltext.html
Sometimes they're just going to have to learn the hard way.
Because the glock mag versions are fugly.
LOL, I like that photo!
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They must be pretty confident to post something like that! Hope it's justified!!!!
Me too!
I never said glock mags weren't available globally in quantity,I said the uzzi mags are MORE globally available,and considering NEA's biggest markets are South Africa and New Zealand,im sure that's where the majority of their market research is done.
As for the Thureons,the make a model that accepts modified uzi/Colt mags as well.so obviously the market is there,I'm not arguing that the glock mags aren't largely available,I'm saying the markets that NEA is targeting the Uzi/modified Colt mags are MORE AVAILABLE .
As for the modification of the mag,maybe that's the work around they are using,Uzi pattern mags that aren't compatible with uzi's,but Uzi mags are able to be modified to work .i don't know,we'll just have to wait and see.
Oh I think they understand the Canadian market, not sure they really give a rats arse about it. It appears that their market is elsewhere.
They Were not treated very well at the beginning by this Canadian market and some individuals on this site in particular continue to post hateful crap about the company.
I would really be interested in a 9 mm NR platform and would support NEA again.
I'm not really seeing what you saying about the magazine release ,how is it any different then any other AR?
Fair enough. To be honest, I like the look of the stick mags more than the Glock mags in a gun like this. And I can certainly see why they are going the stick mag route considering the other countries they wish to sell to. However, I do hope they will someday down the road take a page from Thureon Defense's book and eventually offer a Glock model to open up their options for those who want them. They certainly won't lose any business by doing so. But that's a decision they'll have to make for a later date.
Looking at the pic of the gun, it isn't any different. That means NEA are going to have to cut a new mag catch slot in every single Uzi mag in order for them to work in the gun, as the Uzi's mag catch is much lower. Either that or the gun is going to have to be redesigned to have a magwell that'll be about as long as the one on the LUSA A2 in order to accommodate a lower mag release. Either way, it seems like they're making more work for themselves when the Colt 9mm mags are already designed for the AR style mag release.
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Is it possible they are using the Uzi pattern mags,but with the mag catch in another area to accommodate the mag release,and possibly making it a "new" mag
