A magazine charging apparatus includes a carrier that holds cartridges and facilitates their transfer to a magazine; the carrier having a body that encloses an interior compartment, the body having a first side and a second side to receive the cartridges therebetween, the first side and the second side each having a cutout extending partially a length of the first side and the second side and the cutout having a notches; slider plate, having a body to fit with within the interior compartment; and two protrusions extending away from the body and to protrude through the cutout of the first side and second side; the notches allow for one direction longitudinal movement of the slider plate within the interior compartment; a lid pivotally attached to the body; a displacement leg rigidly attached to the bottom back end of the carrier and to depress the follower of a magazine; a cradle integral to the first side and the second sides at the bottom end of the carrier and extending radially inward to hold a cartridge; and a seating plate rigidly attached to the bottom of the front end of the carrier to push the cartridges in the magazine.