I have an m1 carbine that I swear is just a lemon, I feel like I have put a lot of work into it and it just doesn't want to function without problems.

My current problems:
This one has always been a problem, see picture for hopefully more clarity. When I put a full magazine in the gun the magazine will lean down because of the weight which prevents the gun from feeding in another round. The round will hit the magazine well and jam. I can fire it if I hold the magazine up, but I don't feel like that is what is intended.

New problem is I am getting random misfires where the firing pin will hit the primer but not hard enough to fire the round.


Things I have done
replaced the springs, replaced the magazine catch with the additional nub for the longer magazines, bought new magazines(a g1 one and one of the Koreon ones)
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