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My guess would be late Feb. or March for those. Magpul has a metric crapton of catching up to do on just the black 5.56 and 7.62 mags and they've said they won't be producing colored mags until market levels of black mags are caught up with demand.

150 down, 350 to go.

Also thought I'd mention that I'm not ignoring Order Comments. I've had a few folks ask that I hold shipping orders until the black mags are ready. I can't do that. I can't break from the internal process that I've put in place to handle the 400-500% workload that I'm currently under. The flexibility and exceptions that I normally make during non-panic times just cannot happen right now because if I start down that path, it's going to slow me down, make me less efficient, and ultimately, make me ineffective. My goal is to ship orders that have been paid for as fast I can. I can't single out orders to handle them in a special way because what that will cause is a slowdown in the rest of the orders being processed. Thanks for understanding.

Starting a new thread to give you guys updates on your orders. They're in production now and I'm building in batches of 50. Once 50 are built, I'm packing them up and shipping. Then building another 50. I'm going to keep doing that until all 500 are gone. I'm also now out of FDE ranger plates. I could only fill one order and was expecting a large shipment of them next week however the distributor I ordered from had a physical inventory error and doesn't actually have any to send me even though they were going to send me several hundred. I've emailed the folks who ordered ranger plates with one of two options. Either I build the mags with black ranger plates (which look pretty good in my opinion) or swap back to the standard floorplate. If you got such an email, please reply to it with what you'd like me to do.

Not until I can build new tooling. And right now, I've gotta process lowers and the 500 15/20 FDEs that were ordered up. Probably next week is when I'll get around to them. Lot of irons in the fire over here.

I will likely have another 300-500 NFA polymer lowers early next week.

Okay, I've got about 500 to build now. Between lowers that need shipped and mags to be made, I'll be running a few days behind on shipping so bear with me please. Also, I'm low on ranger plates so that may be a bottleneck. I have a ton of them coming in next week though.

I reserved about 25 FDEs to be done in pink at a later date. They will be more expensive however I'll be donating the net profit in entirety to the Susan G. Komen charity provided they'll take the money. I need to get in touch with them to arrange that.

I'll be working on these tomorrow when I'm not shipping lowers. Gonna start taking mags apart now because I can do that while drinking beer. Long, long day of shipping. 19 hours yesterday, 13 hours today. And an hour or so left of disassembling mags.

Ranger Plates are in short supply. Might cause delays. I should have more next week.

You would guess correctly

Sorry, I got tied up on the phone and UPS stopped by. Yes, the FDEs are live now

Yeah, it's the new body style throwing things off. FDE will be available this evening after I've caught up shipping lowers out. I've been at it all freaking day and am so close to be caught up.

Black 15/20s are not going to happen today. I need to build a whole new set of tooling.

LOL, that'd be so mean. As soon as they get in, I'll start working on modifying the block to make them work. Hopefully it'll be a simple fix like the Gen2 to M3 modification when the 30s came out.

Switch to decaf, guys.

Reloading with another 300 either later this week or early next week.

Put a handful of stripped lowers in the store. I didn't quite load everything that came in today to prevent overselling so now I'm selling the safety stock that turned out to not be needed.

Not even two hours and I'm out. 300 lowers *poof*

Completes didn't last long at all. Stripped are down to 100 already and I loaded 250 initially

I just released them to the online store. Both stripped and complete are in stock. Limit of five stripped per order per customer and 3 complete per order per customer.

Probably not gonna happen this time around. The time it takes to process the mags is too long. If that was all I had to do, no problem. However, I've got 400 lower receivers to process and work through. I'm going to make the FDE 15/20s available in the store when they come in and whatever is left next week, I'll work on getting dyed.

I'm betting they are primarily enforcement related rather than substantive. Things like increasing ATF's budget, manpower, etc.

Tuesday: New Frontier Armory LW15 stripped lowers, New Frontier Armory LW15 stripped w/ LPK (pre-sold two weeks ago), and New Frontier Armory LW15 Complete lowers Wednesday: 15/20 Black M3 PMAGs and 15/20 FDE PMAGs Lowers will be limited to three per person per order execpt the stripped ones, those will be five per person per order Black 15/20s will have a limit of 5 per person per order. 20 per person on the FDE (I have alot coming) Watch this forum for announcements for all products becoming available. Lowers I will send a newsletter out about as well. I am not taking pre-orders at this time. No dibs, no early orders, etc. Please don't ask.

I do transfers for local customers and more than a few have purchased from Buds. I can say that as the receiving dealer, it's a PITA because Bud's is terrible about communicating lead times to customers which then has the customers bugging me if their gun has arrived and they just didn't get the tracking info. Now, specific to NJ, there was a situation where a customer came to me to buy 15/30 PMAGs after buying a rifle from Buds. They took his money and showed his order as processing. When it came time to ship the rifle, they said they wouldn't ship it to NJ with the 30rd mag. They wouldn't strip the mag from the rifle because they didn't want to open the sealed case. They ended up refunding the customer's money but only after a couple weeks of the customer a) expecting the rifle and b) purchasing accessories for it.