Your questions grow more difficult, Kemosabe.
Mark Twain makes a case for a tactical reload. But do we have any indication that Quaid fired several times? Or even more than once? Maybe I missed something.
Hard to imagine he would eject the mag after one shot unless he was really jittery which he does not seem to have been.
I wonder if Cherry’s gun might have been dropped and hit the ground when he tossed it to Jones. The mag might have been ejected after the toss, either by impact on the ground or by Jones when he caught it or grabbed it up.
I’d have to bet it was the morons’ magazine. Everything that could go wrong for them did.
One report said witnesses heard 5-8 shots.