Question for LEOs and GIs...

[charlie12]

I have a question for Law Enforcement Officers and military personnel. Do you carry with your magazine filled to capacity? I was in a deaf chat room last night and argued with this deaf man who said he was in the Army (that should have been my first clue). He insisted that anyone in the military who carries an M9 and ALL Law Enforcement Officers carry about two or three rounds less than the magazine's full capacity to protect the spring of the magazine. I told him that he was incorrect and they probably do carry with the magazine full. He said, "No. Carrying a full magazine will damage the magazine spring so they carry with two or three less." That stupid argument was giving me such a headache, I had to leave.

Am I right? Do LEOs and GIs carry with a full mag?

or

Is that idiot wrong?

Dave maybe he was in The Salvation Army.

 

[sraiford]

Are you saying your duty gun has an empty chamber?

Nope. Place a fully loaded mag in the weapon, chamber a round, holster and snap in a loaded weaon. Now your mag is down one.

 

[deafdave3]

Nope. Place a fully loaded mag in the weapon, chamber a round, holster and snap in a loaded weaon. Now your mag is down one.

Dats how I carry!

 

[sraiford]

Clips store ammunition
Magazines store and feed ammunition.

 

[deafdave3]

I hope ya'll know I was giving the ultimate sarcasm when I said, "what's a clip?" Someone else, not me, said its the same as a mag. Just gettin' the record straight.

 

[charlie12]

I hope ya'll know I was giving the ultimate sarcasm when I said, "what's a clip?" Someone else, not me, said its the same as a mag. Just gettin' the record straight.

I knew.

 

[jmanrogers]

I hope ya'll know I was giving the ultimate sarcasm when I said, "what's a clip?" Someone else, not me, said its the same as a mag. Just gettin' the record straight.

No offense taken. You are correct. I was just typing fast and said clip, and not magazine.

 

[charlie12]

MAGAZINE! Sorry, I wasn't politically correct!

Politics has nothing to do with it.

It's to different things like Spanky posted

 

[Vanilla Gorilla]

The Army and Marines had a bad batch of several hundred thousand M9 Mags from a Company called Checkmate. If you loaded the Checkmate Mags to their full 15 rd capacity they were very prone to malfunction. In the units I was in we sorted throught the mags and picked out all the Aero-Products and OEM Mags and tried to only use those. If we had to use the Checkmate mags we only loaded 10 or 11 rounds. NEVER buy Surplus M9 Mags. The Mil has fixed the problem and replaced the bad mags now and Checkmate M9 Mags have flooded the market.

 

[jmanrogers]

Politics has nothing to do with it.

It's to different things like Spanky posted

Spanky was only half correct. The pic that he posted is that of a "STRIPPER" clip.

Political or non political. I said clip and not magazine and I was wrong! Just in a hurry. It's like saying "gun" and meaning "pistol".

 

[Suburbazine]

I wouldn't be worried about the spring wearing out. Only downside I see to carrying a mag at capacity is that the guide at the top will wear out faster. Then you'll wind up like me with rounds stovepiping in the slide rather than going in the chamber.

 

[tunatuk]

Duty carry: Hot with mag topped off. Every round counts.

Off duty: Hot with mag topped off. Every round counts.

 

[SpeedRacer]

I can't imagine why you'd carry less than capacity. Some operator types will load capacity -1 in the mag to make insertion easier on a closed slide or bolt.

 

[krayzkajun]

Full + 1

 

[03protege]

I can't imagine why you'd carry less than capacity. Some operator types will load capacity -1 in the mag to make insertion easier on a closed slide or bolt.

Are the operator types mall ninjas? I here operator types being thrown around but idk.

 

[shoalsfugro]

Um, Deaf chatroom? Were you at OC..org again Dave?

 

[JBP55]

Duty carry: Hot with mag topped off. Every round counts.

Off duty: Hot with mag topped off. Every round counts.

Best Answer.

 

[103M 95G]

FULL!

 

[JR1572]

Full. All the time.

JR1572

 

[Jed]

The Army and Marines had a bad batch of several hundred thousand M9 Mags from a Company called Checkmate. If you loaded the Checkmate Mags to their full 15 rd capacity they were very prone to malfunction. In the units I was in we sorted throught the mags and picked out all the Aero-Products and OEM Mags and tried to only use those. If we had to use the Checkmate mags we only loaded 10 or 11 rounds. NEVER buy Surplus M9 Mags. The Mil has fixed the problem and replaced the bad mags now and Checkmate M9 Mags have flooded the market.

....good to know