Dan Murphy

The 15 in the magazine, the one that was in the chamber, have all been discharged.

He's not aware that he's out of ammunition.

He's so caught up in the moment, he continues to depress the trigger, thinking he has more ammunition.

This is a typical magazine.

This contains 15 rounds.

This magazine slides into the handle or the grip aspect of a weapon and then positions a round on top ready to be loaded into the chamber to be fired.

With a 15-round magazine, you can chamber a round and then pull the magazine out and top it off, as we say, with a 15th round.

So that weapon now has a 16-round capacity, which is a typical 9mm weapon many people carry.

Yes, you do.

That's correct.

In order to load this, as you mentioned, when you first beginning to load it, it's somewhat easy.

There's a spring inside.

The spring enables each next round to be pushed up into the chamber to be used.

So that spring gets much more taught as you fill this up.

It's an intentional act.

And for someone who is not very experienced, and even for those of us who are, there can be some difficulty putting the last couple of rounds in.

It really takes some oomph.

so this is a very intentional act to fill this up and that's an even more intentional act to then take the slide chamber a live round eject this magazine top it off with the 15th round so it's full again giving you a handgun with 16 round capacity so currently this has 12 rounds in it i'm going to top it off with some more rounds and i have to push down on the round that's in there already

and squeeze the next one in.

And as you can see, they don't always go easy.