Modern magazines feed bullets with thirty pounds of spring force
Crime
The internal spring of a standard handgun magazine pushes bullets upward with enough force to lift a heavy cinder block or a small toddler.
Inside the sleek metal casing of a modern semi-automatic magazine, a heavy-duty spring exerts up to thirty pounds of pressure to ensure the next round is ready the instant a shot is fired. This engineering allows a practiced shooter to swap a fresh magazine in just over one second. In contrast, reloading an older style revolver can take thirty seconds, a mechanical gap that makes modern hardware five to ten times more lethal in a crisis.