is in contact with the follower spring 12 which is in turn in contact with the floor plate 14 when ammunition is loaded into the feed end 6 the follower plate 10 compresses the follower spring 12 against the floor plate 14 this compression is relaxed when a round of ammunition is loaded into the weapon 39 s firing chamber and the spring 12 therefore raises the follower plate 10 and associated ammunition relative to the magazine 2 and weapon the raising readies the next round of ammunition for loading into the weapon 39 s firing chamber after the first round 39 s casing is expelled the preferred embodiment of the invention shown in fig3 4 and 7 at least one wall 32 of an ammunition magazine 30 is extended above the level of the floor plate 38 the extension 35 may be fashioned into whatever shape a user desires including extending a plurality of sides and molding them together such as a loop 34 in fig3 or the tab 74 in fig7 a handle may be added to the magazine in a number of different methods referring to fig5 the magazine may be molded with an anchor point 52 and a separate handle 54 may be either molded onto the anchor directly or may be ultrasonically welded onto the magazine 50 handle 54 if molded separately may have molded notch 56 to interface with the anchor point 52 a handle may also be attached mechanically to a magazine such.