Whats the difference between FML/DF/NFML/NDF magazines?
The original Glock magazines were designed to stay in the gun if the magazine release was pressed and there were bullets still in the magazine. They did this by making the magazines without the metal lining running all the way to the base of the magazine. These are Non-Fully Metal Lined (NFML) magazines also known as Non-Drop Free (NDF) magazines. In current magazines the metal lining extends the whole way down the magazine tube. These will drop out of the gun even when full of bullets. They are called Fully Metal Lined (FML) or Drop Free (DF) magazines. See Glockmeister for details and pictures: http://www.glockmeister.com/3genmags.shtml http://www.glockmeister.com/magtype.shtml Many Glocksters consider the 1st generation hi-caps mags, or drop-free non-full metal-lined mags (DF-FML), as inferior. Actually, some knowledgeable Glocksters consider the non-drop-free non-full metal-lined (NDF-NFML) mags better than the later DF variety. In his 1998 Glock Annual article entitled, “How To Be
