Many believe a repeating firearm's reliability is based upon its operating system. While this assumption is true, the root cause of most weapons' malfunctions center upon a failure to properly feed live rounds, or properly eject spent brass. A clean properly lubricated operating system is important, but the vast majority of malfunctions can be ultimately attributed to some form of magazine failure. This is true for all repeating actions from manually operated bolt and lever actions, to self-loading semi-automatic and automatic actions. Jams, stovepipes and ejection failures tof the malfunction list; but first, some design success stories.
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