Hey guys, a buddy of mine has an
EAA Witness PL Pavona 9mm that he bought for his wife and he's trying to find anywhere that sells magazines because the pistol only came with just one. The manufacturer's site says the 13-round magazines are out of stock and nobody seems to know wen they will come available again and out of all the 15 or 20 sites I found that sells that magazine, they all say out of stock and some even say out of stock with no backorder so, there is an alternative magazine for this pistol but its only a 10-round so it can be legal in those states that have a 10-round limit.
I found a video on YouTube where a guy took a Colorado-compliant 15-round magazine for an AR15, took the short spring and spacer out and replaced it with a new full-length spring and converted it back to a 30-round magazine so, would it be safe to essentially do the same thing with one of these 10-round magazines for this pistol being that the full capacity magazine is only 13 rounds? I guess the 10-rounder could possibly have a little bit shorter spring than the other one but would it really be enough to matter being that its only for another three rounds of already-small diameter 9mm? I told him to just get one, take it and the original mag apart, compare the springs and even if the other spring is in fact a tiny bit shorter to just take the spacer out, put it back together, load it up and try it and if it has feeding issues on either of the last three shots then maybe he'd just have to leave it as it came and hope some day they'll have a restock of the 13-round magazines.