I've noticed over the past year that many places have been selling factory XD mags in 9MM for pretty darn cheap.

Some of them are in retail clamshell style packaging and others are not.

Anybody have any insight on what's going on?

It used to be you couldn't touch XD mags, of any caliber, for much less than $20 each, now you can find them for half that.

Link?

Maybe distributors stocked up in anticipation of a ban on 10+ round magazines.  Now, they don't see a ban in the works and reducing their inventory.

Here you go:

https://palmettostatearmory.com/springfield-xd-9mm-16rd-full-size-mag-xd5016.html

PSA has had these on sale between $9.99 and $14.99 for most of this year. Other retailers have been the same (Joe Bob's, Lando, etc.).

@Adirondack1

Maybe, but $10 is cheaper than Glock mags, which have maybe dropped to this price level once over the past year.

It just seems odd, who knows, maybe SA is finally going to discontinue the XD and are trying to flush some of the mags out before doing it.

That would leave them with the XDM and XDM Elite lines, and it's looking like subcompact versions of both are available there now as well. The original XD is down to one caliber (9MM) and 2 frame sizes (3" subcompact and 4" service).

They were pretty quiet about discontinuing the Mod. 2, maybe the original XD's time is coming up too.

Probably just a flood of distributors buying up a lot of them..

As a side note, we still do make all the XD models, in 9, 40 and 45.  They will probably never go away as they are legal for civilian purchase in California.

Is this still accurate?

Yes, all the California legal model guns will probably always be manufactured, as it is impossible to get new handguns approved by California DOJ.