Calling a Magazine a Clip

[squidsix]

When it happens at work, I am already in Chief Mode, and I go high order violence on them and lose my ever-loving mind for a good many minutes about how words have meaning, and ignorance of weapons as a professional warfighter is deplorable, etc.
When it happens out in the world, I say, "you mean magazine" nice and friendly.

 

[JcMack]

Mags are for guns
Clips are for hair
I don't have neither
right at this time

 

[ordy]

It does't bother me and I don't correct them. I work the proper term into the conversation and let it go from there.

 

[speedyquad]

Sometimes i correct them
Never rudely
Other times i let it go
Bothers me a lot? not really

 

[Delos]

Clips & Magazines

How do you react when someone calls a Magazine a Clip?

No doubt there are experts in US Military small arms that will fill us in.
I will try to get the ball rolling by some calculated guesses.
The 1911 45 pistol has always had a magazine.
The MI Garand was probably always using a stripper clip. (I do not remember a magazine being involved when I qualified with one in Navy boot camp in 1959. I only remember the verbal warnings about the dreaded "MI Thumb" when the bolt slams closed on your thumb).
When I bought my first MI "Carbine" in the 1960's it had a magazine (probably always did).

Obviously you could fit a lot more loaded stripper clips in an amunitions box.

I bet this was one of those supply officers & truck drivers nightmares. Ordering and transporting the wrong item.

I remember thinking that Clip was slang for Magazine. When young I recall the old retired master sergeants getting really tense and loud when someone called a magazine a clip, and I was just sure they were being jerks.

One of those things that is no longer an issue but at one time was a big deal?

 

[doublesharp]

Don't sweat the small stuff. My Marlin Camp 45 label calls mags clips and so does Remington banner ad in Jack Roy's gun shop.

 

[handejector]

My next pet peeve.....

The correct term is "standard" or "full capacity" magazine not "high capacity" magazine. In my mind the term "high capacity" magazine is an anti-gun person's term.

So,
you wanna buy my vintage 226 in the box with both high capacity clips?

 

[GKC]

So,
you wanna buy my vintage 226 in the box with both high capacity clips?

Firearms ads go in the classifieds....



JUST KIDDING!!!!!! Please don't ban me.

 

[wbraswell]

Why use a 3 syllable word when a one syllable word will do? My favorite magazines are American Rifleman, Guns and Ammo, and Playboy. I don't read the articles, I just like the pictures.

 

[lkelly]

I only get upset wen the word 'ban' is used with either term.

 

[Kelly Green]

It doesn't bother me if they call them clips or magazines. Now 'Bullet Holder Thingy' is another story.

 

[fat tom]

Using correct firearm terminology only shows your level of professional competence, or lack thereof. If you don't or won't understand that, then you have some learning to do.

I totally understand it. And I consider myself more than "competent". I just don't get my panties in a wad when someone uses "unprofessional" terminology. FWIW,we ALL have some learnin' to do,even you professionals.
f.t.

 

[tops]

It seems to me that the people that get upset over "magazine or clip" are new people that want to show their knowledge or people that want it known they were in the military. The same people are prone to call guns "weapons" I am just a dumb redneck that is like Donald Duck. I don't give a quack. Larry

 

[ladder13]

You call Dad, Pop....or Paw?

 

[Mickey D]

You call Dad, Pop....or Paw?

Dad Good ol' DAD

 

[Jlduke]

I think that making a big deal over something so petty and trivial only serves to make gun owners looks like jackasses. I was in the army, I know the difference, I just don't really care. If someone wants to call it a clip then let 'em, at least they're not out there with the nutbags trying to take our guns away.

 

[P&R Fan]

I think we should keep quiet about this, and let the Mensa members in Congress pass a law banning "Clips" over 10 rounds. Then, if it passes, we take them to court when they try to say our magazines are covered under this legislation. Caj could be our counsel.
We can all probably live with our M1 Garands and M1917 revolvers being limited to 10 rounds, right?
Jim

 

[mkk41]

Ya can call it a magazine , ya can call it a clip.

Call it a clip magazine like Marlin does.

Just don't call a S&W revolver a CTG!

 

[litenlarry]

A stripper clip feeds ammo into the M1's internal Magazine..A magazine is not always detachable..

No doubt there are experts in US Military small arms that will fill us in.
I will try to get the ball rolling by some calculated guesses.
The 1911 45 pistol has always had a magazine.
The MI Garand was probably always using a stripper clip. (I do not remember a magazine being involved when I qualified with one in Navy boot camp in 1959. I only remember the verbal warnings about the dreaded "MI Thumb" when the bolt slams closed on your thumb).
When I bought my first MI "Carbine" in the 1960's it had a magazine (probably always did).

Obviously you could fit a lot more loaded stripper clips in an amunitions box.

I bet this was one of those supply officers & truck drivers nightmares. Ordering and transporting the wrong item.

I remember thinking that Clip was slang for Magazine. When young I recall the old retired master sergeants getting really tense and loud when someone called a magazine a clip, and I was just sure they were being jerks.

One of those things that is no longer an issue but at one time was a big deal?

 

[handejector]

A stripper clip feeds ammo into the M1's internal Magazine..A magazine is not always detachable..

Nope.
The rounds are "stripped" from a stripper clip. A stripper clip never enters the weapon(gun, firearm, rifle, pistol).
The Garand uses an "en bloc" clip.