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Why the G3 magazines are funny, is because in spite of West Germany intending for them to be disposable, they were in fact built perfectly fine it be reused again and again and again, just like a normal magazine. It feels so hilariously German to intend for something to be disposable, but then building it to last anyway.
As the Bundeswehr came to that realization, they sent out personnel on training grounds to go and collect magazines, which, since they were aluminum, were still in perfectly good shape and barely affected by the elements. As they had this policy of abandoning magazines for quite a lot of years, they ended up with quite a large surplus of magazines, so large that you can still to this day actually get these old magazines in large quantity for very cheap, as they sold off quite a lot of them.