I have seen many articles saying that leaving magazines loaded for long periods will ruin the springs and cause malfunctions.
Is there a number or percentage of rounds less than maximum that can be left in a magazine for long periods that reduces this problem?
I was told by my gunsmith that the Israeli military has studied this and came to the conclusion that leaving the last two rounds out from full capacity, pretty much stops the failures even for long term storage of loaded magazines.
I don't have a lot of extra magazines and need to have most if not all of them loaded at any given time for my defensive handguns. I really don't want to have failures at a bad time.
I would gladly give up a round or so to maintain function.
Do the newer handguns have better springs in this regard?
Does anyone have any recent info into this?