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Gun nuts of the fediverse. Do any guns use two magazines at once? (piefed.social)

submitted 5 days ago by HubertManne@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I hope folks read more than just the title. So im watching a show with a gun exchange and the person has to reload and you can see they are nervous to get the new magazine in so they can fire again and it made me think. Do any guns have two magazine where you can either manually switch to the other magazine or maybe automatically do it when the first one is empty. With the idea that if you need to fire while in the middle of changing out the empty magazine you could. I feel like this seem obvious enough that someone must have tried it. I mean considering the crazy gun things I have seen. Since im not aware of anything I figure if it has been done it had an issue or was just not useful enough to make worth it. So for the folks that are really into guns, especially wierd protoype ones. Has there every been anything like this?

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

Well in most of the movie situations its an area where people are far enough away that the gunshots don't bring police and usually there are some family or such that is in a known direction usually behind them a ways that they are out of the fray. So its an idealized situation. I actually thought more pistol as soldiers will mostly be in a team where hopefully only one person is reloading at a time. I assumed that is why you would hear individual ones shouting reloading sometimes (again in movies). granted if separated and down to one I could see it being useful again. I mean im guessing given the 40i never took off so the idea is out there that it must not be all that useful.