I had a great exchange with a gentleman from NJ from who I will be making a trade.
In our conversation we were talking about the NJ Sate Police and how they were the group that originally spec'd out the HKP7H8 beacause they wanted an American-type mag release on the PSP. In any event he mentioned that the Police recently looked at S&W99 as a sidearm and eventually rejected them. Apparently the hi-cap max in NJ is 15 rounds and S&W had to modify the 16 rounders to meet their specs. The modified mags would not function in a flawless manner.
Maybe this is the reason that the factory mags are now 15 rather than 16--a redesign of the original mags.
Interesting possibility.
In our conversation we were talking about the NJ Sate Police and how they were the group that originally spec'd out the HKP7H8 beacause they wanted an American-type mag release on the PSP. In any event he mentioned that the Police recently looked at S&W99 as a sidearm and eventually rejected them. Apparently the hi-cap max in NJ is 15 rounds and S&W had to modify the 16 rounders to meet their specs. The modified mags would not function in a flawless manner.
Maybe this is the reason that the factory mags are now 15 rather than 16--a redesign of the original mags.
Interesting possibility.