Edward,
Another facet of this situation would be that when the gun was captured the first thing in the GI's mind was to render it inoperable. To do that you drop the mag on the ground and clear the gun. Then you might stick the pistol in your belt, if you want to keep it, and recover a magazine after the prisoners had been moved out and there would likely be a number of mags on the ground.
I think the same thing happened with bolts in rifles. You remove the bolt, the rifle becomes a club. The rifle goes in one pile and the bolts in another. To acquire a souvenier the rifle was picked out of the rifle pile and the bolt was picked out of a bolt pile and "matched". If it fit, it was good enough. No one would have paid attention to numbers.
My thoughts, Leon
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