A chambered round, but the mag isn’t? deliberately? That’s a pretty strained theory - not just when the mag is a mere 90 degrees from full insertion, and especially when involving a military which is borderline paranoid about chambered rounds. IDF handgun doctrine is built around “mag inserted, empty chamber”: first step on drawing is chambering a round.
Find some solid basis for your “chambered round but no mag” theory before propagating it.
Perhaps you are using the wrong context for interpreting my observation.
I was not suggesting that IDF or any other forces would be willing to allow a chambered round in a rifle which has no magazine inserted.
My comment was aimed at the open-carry demonstrators who got so much attention because they had magazines inserted, pointing out that the mere fact that the magazine is not inserted would not make the rifle unloaded.
Before open-carry was outlawed here in the People's Republik of Kalifornia, those who were open carrying were routinely detained and the officers would not be content to observe the lack of a magazine, they would take the gun and check the chamber.