magazine is an ammunition storage and feeding device
within or attached to a firearm

• tubular magazines
• detachable box magazines
• detachable drum magazines

magazines have parts;

• Spring
• Spring Follower
• Body
• Base Plate

Clip

• Device used to store multiple rounds of ammunition together
• Made of one continuous piece of stamped metal
• No moving parts
• (called chargers by the British)
• 1888 – developed in Germany

Volcanic Rifle

• 1st First tubular magazine
• Fed into the chamber from a spring-loaded tube called a magazine

Spencer Rifle

• 1st successful First tubular magazine
• used a tubular magazine
• Magazine located in the stock of the gun (not under the barrel)
• used new rimfire metallic cartridges

Rollin White

• 1855 – Patented Early box magazine

Robert Wilson

• 1864 – Patented detachable box magazine

Krag–Jørgensen Rifle

• 1886 designed in Norway
• Used a rotary magazine built into receiver

Lee–Metford Rifle

• 1888 designed
• first rifles to use detachable box magazine