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You posted - Proverbs 14:7
(Stay away from a foolish man it says)
Then there is that other one "You cannot make anything foolproof because fools can be so ingenious".
So we went through two pages so far before it became obvious that all the WWII movies had soldiers fighting mostly with M-1 Garand clip fed rifles.
No doubt we have all heard some actor say many times Get more clips, hand me some clips, no more clips in the box, or whatever. Now I need to watch a few just to check. If it was only the officers and maybe drivers and tanks that carried 45 autos, with magazines, they were seldom shot. My Marine brother in law that spent the war mostly on a Marine air base always had his magazine fed M-1 Carbine in his trunk. Guys that worked on airplanes or airstrips did not need the heavy M-1 Garand. They would not be using small arms at all unless the marines guarding them were overrun.
Anyway if maybe the movie guns never reloaded, we had millions of vets return, that had carried M-1 Garands, that sooner or later used the word Clips. My brother, my brother in law, my uncles were all issued or trained with M-1 Garands.
I once read an article about why their were so few 45 autos in old movies. The answer was that the blanks they fired were easier to do with revolvers. It was dangerous and expensive to make blanks powerful enough to work the action of a 45 auto. Movie sets have close quarters and sound can be added later.
So I have my alibi for using the "Clips" word too often all worked out.
