Magazines can be stored fully loaded indefinitely without worrying about the springs taking a set. What weakens springs are compression and depression cycles. It is much the same with the springs in your car or truck. They won't wear out, or begin sagging from just sitting in the garage under their own weight. But if you drive thousands of miles on very rough and bumpy roads, they will weaken, eventually to the point of needing replacement.
Jeff Cooper once told a story of a friend who discovered a World War I vintage, 1911 pistol in an old trunk in an attic. The gun was fully loaded, and had been left that way for decades. They took the gun out back and pulled the trigger 7 times. It went bang 7 times. He said after that he no longer worried about storing magazines fully loaded. Bill T.
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