All About Gun Magazines

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A magazine is the storage area and feeding device for ammunition in a firearm which is attached to a repeating firearm. When a gun holder fires a gun, the magazine operates by relocating the cartridges stored in it into a position where they may be loaded into the chamber to create impact. A removable magazine is normally called a 'clip' and are heavily monitored by gun control laws because it is an important piece of most repeating firearm.

Gun magazines are made in many shapes and sizes such as bolt action express rifles, that hold only a minimum amount of rounds to machine guns that contain hundreds of rounds. The guns that can utilize a wide variety of magazine usually use a box or drum magazine and some firearms can even feed from both magazines and belts. The most commonly used of magazine in modern firearms are the detachable box type magazines. This cartridge in this magazine is stored in either the column in a staggered zig zag manner or with the bullet placed one above the other. When the firearm starts to fire, then the cartridges are moved to the top of the magazine by another follower driven by spring tension to either a side by side or a single feed position.

Certain gun magazines such as the single or multiple tubular magazine are usually found on most lever action rifles, and pump action shotguns whether round or flat nose. These magazines hold cartridges end to end inside of a spring loaded tube, running parallel to the barrel or in the buttstock and is normally fixed to the firearm when being fired. The main problem with tubular magazines was that when the bullet tip made contact with the primer of the cartridge ahead of it during recoil, it would often times catch fire which made it very dangerous to use so it was made obsolete within armed forces when the pointed 'splitzer' bullets were introduced.

There are also cylindrical designed magazines like drum and rotary magazines that let you put more bullets inside than box magazines. Drum magazines are used primarily in light machines guns such as the Heckler & Koch MG36, however these magazines are less reliable and complicated. In some drum magazines, the cylindrical chamber pushes the loose rounds into an exit slot while the cartridge is stored parallel to the axis of rotation. When the magazine is filled, then a mechanical section forces the partition on the rounds. A single staggered column is forced by a follower through a curved path. From there the rounds go through a vertical riser either from a single or dual drums. Other types of magazines include, Pan and Helical. There are also special high capacity magazines which are designed to hold way more cartridges that the normal capacity but such magazines are usually banned. Magazine capacity is often limited by the design of the firearm, like for example internal, tubular, or rotary magazines. A lot of pistols and rifle magazines are considered as "high capacity" by gun control laws are in fact the factory standard magazines were initially designed for use with their respective firearms.

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