Simple answer...cost! Canada is an extremely small market when you're just talking about regular sporting rifles. It is even smaller when talking about black rifle guys.
To set up a specific operation just to produce injection moulded magazines to the same quality level of the PMAGS would cost hundreds of thousands, if not several million for the required machinery, not to mention an actual facility, incorporation costs, salaries, overhead, etc...
You can expect to sell less than 30,000 units to the Canadian market. Then what? The American market is extremely competitive and already over-saturated, plus there is no guarantees that another Democrat gun ban/magazine importation ban around the corner. Europe is another limited market. You can try for a military or LEO contract, but securing one of those could take years.
Even if you try and farm the moulding out to another company, costs would be prohibitive unless you placed a substantial order. A few thousand ain't gonna' cut it.
Either way you look at it, you aren't going to see a $10-$15 PMAG clone in Canada. You can try China or other Asian countries, but again, the quality isn't going to be there and when you factor in increasing prices from those markets, plus shipping costs, you aren't going to be saving that much, if anything. A few crappy mags, a negative comment or two here on CGN and suddenly the importer is sitting on thousands of magazines that no one is willing to take a risk on unless they're steeply discounted.
Paying $35-$40 a mag then, really isn't all that bad for an item that is otherwise unobtanium in Canada and in high demand in the US. Would I prefer to pay the American price? No question! Do I recognize that that isn't feasible, yes. Sometimes you just have to suck it up and accept reality. Of course, you could try waging a letter writing campaign to the US State Dept. and complain about their excessive fees and export restrictions. I'm sure they'll do what they can to accommodate you!
It sucks, but that is the price of living in Kanuckistan!
) I don't have a tendancy to set them down on satin pillows after being emptied. That said, I haven't been able to break PMAGs under normal use....yet. If I correctly understand what you were insinuating, then a comparison of the two would be cool.
