Talk:Drum magazine

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Feel free to expand--TGC55 12:16, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

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What the Thompson and PPS have is a spiralling magazine. A drum magazine is the type which is what the Degtarjev, the WWII soviet light machine gun has. It is a flat circular box, with the cartridges arranged inside in a radial fashion.

I've seen the term drum more often used to refer to the kind that stores all the rounds facing forward, rather than inward. Most often those are called "flat pan" magazines. Night Gyr 18:06, 17 June 2006 (UTC)