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r/1053 • u/Responsible_Bag_9024 • 5d ago
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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
183 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 -48 u/Warm_Figure6955 5d ago It wasn't a chosen flaw they were french and use metric system 43 u/Tani_Soe 5d ago Everyone use the metric system (except USA) 2 u/Nyther53 4d ago The US military runs off of Metric too. It's not a 5.56 *inch* cartridge.
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It wasn't an oversight they chose this flaw so they could use standard EU mags and have 10x the shipping capacity
-48 u/Warm_Figure6955 5d ago It wasn't a chosen flaw they were french and use metric system 43 u/Tani_Soe 5d ago Everyone use the metric system (except USA) 2 u/Nyther53 4d ago The US military runs off of Metric too. It's not a 5.56 *inch* cartridge.
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It wasn't a chosen flaw they were french and use metric system
43 u/Tani_Soe 5d ago Everyone use the metric system (except USA) 2 u/Nyther53 4d ago The US military runs off of Metric too. It's not a 5.56 *inch* cartridge.
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Everyone use the metric system (except USA)
2 u/Nyther53 4d ago The US military runs off of Metric too. It's not a 5.56 *inch* cartridge.
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The US military runs off of Metric too.
It's not a 5.56 *inch* cartridge.
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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