That’s physically impossible. You cannot fire a round from a semi-automatic pistol and still have a full magazine.
If the slide didn’t cycle back far enough, maybe it didn’t chamber another round.
“That’s physically impossible. You cannot fire a round from a semi-automatic pistol and still have a full magazine.”
It’s actually a reasonably common failure. A round gets chambered. At some point during gun handling, the magazine release is bumped or pushed. The magazine slightly dislodges. IT can appear to be seated, but it is not.
When the chambered round is fired, the mag is not high enough to strip off the next round.
The chamber will now be empty, and you will have a full mag. If you stayed in the fight,, you would next pull the trigger on an empty chamber.
It happens from fiddling with the gun a lot,, a poor carry system, or as the result of a struggle. The most common way it happens is that someone chambers a round for carry,, then removes the mag to “top off” the one they just stripped away. When they replace the mag back into the gun, they don’t seat it right.
It’s enough of a problem that rubber “magazine bumpers” are a very common accessory.