What is this ring?

[vliberatore]

Geez no,

Where would you attach your keys, nail clippers, whistle, and bottle opener?

Bruh, do you even operate?

I'm glad someone gets it.

[saudadeii]

It's for your streamers like you had when you were a kid.

[Killer Bee]

Honestly, it comes handy when you are jumping off from plane, have to swim, and etc... so you wont lose your sidearm.

yep, handy on small boat patrols where you apt to lose just about anything not tied down..

also handy on any kind of extended field duty where your gear moves around a lot..

my last unit switched to serpas which does have a robust retention, but we still wore lanyards just in case..

there are some practical applications outside of the .mil as well.. lanyard ring?

but this was certainly the first time I've ever heard of a gun owner not knowing what it was for

[EspoMan]

I understand the function of ths ring. Much appreciate the info everyone.

However, I hate the look. Is it possible for me to remove it and replace it with something that will flush with the end of the mag?

You can swap it for a WC mag guide.

http://shopwilsoncombat.com/Wilson-Combat-Mag-Guide-Beretta-92_96/productinfo/676/

[71MUSTY]

I got me a buddy who can fix ya right up. He can shave it, chop it, replace it with internal servos, chrome, repaint even put in hydraulics, bro. Any you need. Twice pipes, chain steering wheel, you name it anythin custom.

[cannon]

It's for your streamers like you had when you were a kid.

That's what I use them for.

[Rottentofu]

You can swap it for a WC mag guide.

http://shopwilsoncombat.com/Wilson-Combat-Mag-Guide-Beretta-92_96/productinfo/676/

Exactly what I am looking for! Thank you so much!

[CAGLS]

You can swap it for a WC mag guide.

http://shopwilsoncombat.com/Wilson-Combat-Mag-Guide-Beretta-92_96/productinfo/676/

For $50? I'd just leave it there. Maybe you can cut it off and sand it smooth.

[rm1911]

Just take a dremel to it. Man, the dremel is the greatest gunsmith tool in the world. I've done so much work on my guns with it. You'd hardly even recognize what they once were.

[The Gleam]

One older use that has lost favor in modern times; the lanyard ring was on the magazine, and not the butt of the gun, as can be seen on such earlier guns as 1911s and the Steyr-Hahn.

If you look at some earlier semi-automatic magazines, they have a "lanyard" loop on the floor-plate. In that regard, you could take 4 or 5 magazines, loop them through the same cord and now all of your mags were accessible during combat and ready within inches for a mag change.

More importantly, they did not get lost and discarded once spent; that latter factor an extremely important issue during times of war when manufacturing and replacement magazines would be scarce to none. You can put the lanyard around your wrist, then through the loop, and through the magazine loops.

And if you had a way of looping the same lanyard ring through the mags as to the gun as well, it kept it all together in one package.

[EspoMan]

Exactly what I am looking for! Thank you so much!

You're welcome.

[Tok36]

[dachan]

Honestly, it comes handy when you are jumping off from plane, have to swim, and etc... so you wont lose your sidearm.

Wasn't it first used for calvary?

[357magnum]

It allows you to wear your gun like Tuco in the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Blondie, you dirty rotten son of a ahhhhh !
Just could not help myself.

[perpetual otter]

You can swap it for a WC mag guide.

http://shopwilsoncombat.com/Wilson-Combat-Mag-Guide-Beretta-92_96/productinfo/676/

I had wilson add this to my Brig Tac and it works pretty well. Nothing works better than a 1911 magwell but this is as good as it gets for 92s.