I took Daughter #1 for her 2nd trip to the range yesterday. She is pretty much doing everything by herself already.

However, we discovered that it is possible to load a magazine incorrectly. Somehow she loaded the magazine so that the follower was perfectly horizontal rather than sloping upward towards the feed direction. This prevented any feeding from the magazine.

She did it with 3 different magazines of 3 different calibers.

The only thing i can think of is that maybe she started pressing down to close to the leading edge?