JOE LAFOON wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 JL> Hi Roy,
 JL> On , you wrote me:

 RJT> I haven't been keeping up with the magazines...

 JL> You should, because...

 RJT> Speaking of magazines,  when I mentioned to a gun store clerk needing
 RJT> some hollowpoint because I'd been carrying the same too long,  he said 
 RJT> something about needing to relax the springs in the magazine.  Since 
 RJT> I've four for the Taurus,  I guess I can rotate them (and yes,  
 RJT> it's been a while).  I also took notice that the two for the 
 RJT> Makarov were both fully loaded and had been that way for some 
 RJT> time.  So I dealt with that.

 JL> AH answered this. :-)

When?

 RJT> How important is this?

 JL> It turns out that it isn't important. They did tests and all, and
 JL> there was no failure to feed, even from magazines loaded since
 JL> WWII.

Ah.

 RJT> I need to look at the Taurus mags and see if they also come
 RJT> apart easily -- somehow I don't think so.

 JL> Just keep them clean and they will be fine. 

That's what I was thinking,  but it's a whole lot easier to clean them if I
can get them apart.

 JL> I have never had a magazine problem in my Taurus. I got a bad Colt 
 JL> magazine that wouldn't work with my Kimber, but it wasn't due to 
 JL> spring loading.

Well,  I'm paying a bit more attention to it than I was before.

 JL> * If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.

Mine too!  Funny how that works...     :-)

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