also safely fire the .223 Remington round). It usually comes in the same configuration as the WASR-2. These have known problems with jamming or failure to feed. This may be due to low quality magazines, or their followers. The WASR-3 was originally supplied with surplus 5.45×39mm AK-74 magazines, which do not reliably feed the 5.56/.223 cartridge. People have used Wieger magazines with some success. Century Arms eventually began including Romanian copies of the reliable Wieger magazine with these rifles. Some switch the follower of an AK-74 magazine with one from Robinson Arms. Israeli Galil steel magazines are also known to work without modification in the WASR-3. Some owners have also modified the rifle to accept Bulgarian Circle-10 5.56 magazines, or Polish Beryl 5.56 magazines. These sometimes require some material to be removed from the receiver center support bar. WASR-M The WASR-M is a 2020 variant pistol caliber carbine. Utilizing a direct blowback mechanism, the WASR-M is chambered in 9mm Luger, and feeds from Glock pattern magazines. Notable incidents The WASR-10 was used to kill 23 people in a terrorist attack at El Paso in 2019. It was also used by Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez in the 2011 White House shooting and by the perpetrator of the 2019 Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting. The WASR-10 was used to kill 8 people in 2007 in the Westroads Mall shooting in Omaha, Nebraska. A WASR-10 was also used in the 2009 shooting of Pittsburgh police officers. , the WASR-10 is frequently used by various Mexican cartels in the country's drug war. Between 2006 and 2011, the weapon was "the most common gun purchased in the United States ... to be traced to crimes in Mexico." See also Saiga semi-automatic rifle Zastava PAP series References External links American Rifleman review of Century's WASR-10 Roman-Forums.com - Romanian WASR-10 GP AK-47 Review WASR-10.com - Information about the WASR-10 Romanian AKM 5.45×39mm firearms 5.56×45mm NATO semi-automatic rifles 7.62×39mm semi-automatic rifles Kalashnikov derivatives Rifles of Romania