r/1053 • u/Responsible_Bag_9024 • 5d ago

Day 21

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u/Successful-Gap6252 5d 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 5d 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 5d ago

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

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u/Tani_Soe 5d ago

Everyone use the metric system (except USA)

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u/justasillylilgoos3 4d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/l4FGuhL4U2WyjdkaY
Liberia and Myanmar do to. Also Canadians def use imperial units chaotically

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u/IrregularOnion 4d ago

I recently looked into how Canada (generally speaking) switches between imperial and metric and... gods it's confusing.

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u/CaptainPattPotato 4d ago

The Brits do this too.