If you leave the magazine disconnect on your Browning Hi-Power, the magazine notoriously does not drop free of the gun when the slide locks back.
I was speaking with a buddy about it and he thinks it's deliberate so that the magazine wouldn't be lost since pistols were intended to be carried a lot and fired sparingly in European armies.
That got my juices flowing and I hit on another explanation for it being intentional.
Many European pistol designs use a heel release instead of a button. The magazine disconnect retaining the magazine after it was released would help with someone transitioning from a heel release to a side button and keep magazines from being dropped to the ground to be lost or damaged.
I was speaking with a buddy about it and he thinks it's deliberate so that the magazine wouldn't be lost since pistols were intended to be carried a lot and fired sparingly in European armies.
That got my juices flowing and I hit on another explanation for it being intentional.
Many European pistol designs use a heel release instead of a button. The magazine disconnect retaining the magazine after it was released would help with someone transitioning from a heel release to a side button and keep magazines from being dropped to the ground to be lost or damaged.