SR: What were the first products AGP Arms offered for the firearms market?
AGP: Our first big deal was the 10rd. mag for the Saiga-12. We were the first aftermarket company to make a mag for the S-12. Back in those years you could get a S-12 with one 5rd. mag included. You pretty much couldn’t even find another 5rd. factory mag unless you bought another gun. I thought the S-12 was really something special but held back by the lack of magazines. So we started that project shortly after the AW ban expired and were extremely concerned that we could get the S-12 declared a DD and banned from importation. It was a crazy time back then, we were tip toeing around many potential issues. That first molding project took 10 times longer than it should and we had to start completely over, right when we thought we were done. We became serious experts at feeding flat faced, rimmed shells of various lengths from a magazine. Not many people have pulled that off reliably.
