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?
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Is that idiot wrong?
Dave maybe he was in The Salvation Army.