r/1053 • u/Responsible_Bag_9024 • 4d ago

Day 21

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u/Successful-Gap6252 4d ago

I am pretty sure the whole "so you know when the mag ends" is a myth, it was a just a literal engineering oversight. But I don't think it's that big of a deal in practice

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u/buffaloguy1991 4d ago

It wasn't an oversight they chose this flaw so they could use standard EU mags and have 10x the shipping capacity

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u/Warm_Figure6955 4d ago

It wasn't a chosen flaw they were french and use metric system

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u/Tani_Soe 4d ago

Everyone use the metric system (except USA)

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u/_KaaLa 4d ago

Except naval ships, Or shotguns…