We were never issued a tool to load the SMG magazine, it was done by hand. It was a pain as it was slow load the magazine. You placed the blank round on top of the previous blank round then pushed down then to the back of the magazine, then kept repeating this till you had inserted 28 rounds to save excess strain on the mag flat spring. But you could load all 30 rounds if you wanted to, but for exercises we only put 28 blank rounds in the magazine. When on the firing range we were issued fully loaded magazines with 30 live rounds to be used on the live firing range
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