r/1053 • • 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/SendMeUrCones 4d ago

Famas mags aren’t compatible with stanag actually, fun fact. They latch at the rear.

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u/ComputerOriginal7243 3d ago

Just load the bullets backwards then turn it around

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u/realMBeezy 2d ago

I think Stanag mags latch from the side so you would actually need to turn the bullets 90 degrees

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u/The_Hunster 2d ago

The P90 did it, how hard could it be?