If I recall correctly, Mr. Ruger suggested, in his letter to John McCain, that pistol magazines up to 15 rounds should be legal, and rifle magazines up to 20 rounds should be legal. It was pointed out at the time that his idea "just happened to coincide" with what Ruger offered, but was lower than what his competitor, Glock offered (at least as far as pistol magazines). The whole idea, of course, that some magazines are ok and some are not was thereby given some steam and the end result was a 10 round capacity, which was lower than what Mr. Ruger had suggested. Naturally, the fact that he suggested that any magazines were bad, regardless of how he defined it, caused a great many to say that "there is nothing Ruger makes that I really need that I cannot get somewhere else." Lee is quite correct that Ruger always limited its factory high cap mags for the Mini-14, and that was always enough reason for most people to "shop elsewhere." That has, of course, changed under the new ownership after Mr. Ruger's death.