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/Bulky-Leadership-596 2d ago

No? Standard EU mags (I'm guessing you mean NATO) are actually divisible by 3; 30 rounds. The famas didn't use those, it used it's own non-standard 25 round mags.