That’s a lot of weight to put onto the magazine/magazine catch in a way engineers certainly didn’t foresee. Slightly bending either can make them non serviceable.
Actually between 1937 and through the end of WW2, the central approval committee for Red Army small arms conducted a number of tests, including a bodyweight test. Throughout WW2, Lev Andropov, a 205 kilo (450 pound) man who was a disabled veteran of the First World War would sit on all designs while eating his lunch. If the weapon did not break, it was approved for that stage of testing.
That’s a lot of weight to put onto the magazine/magazine catch in a way engineers certainly didn’t foresee. Slightly bending either can make them non serviceable.
Actually between 1937 and through the end of WW2, the central approval committee for Red Army small arms conducted a number of tests, including a bodyweight test. Throughout WW2, Lev Andropov, a 205 kilo (450 pound) man who was a disabled veteran of the First World War would sit on all designs while eating his lunch. If the weapon did not break, it was approved for that stage of testing.
My source is that I made it the fuck up.