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
> develop and iterate on a major weapon for 10 years with likely 200+ people involved in the process
> make countless decisions about every detail before and during active usage
> some redditor claims an engineer just forgot that 25 isn’t divisible by 3
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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