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Ruger Nut
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Calling a Magazine a Clip
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sourdough44
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I just call it a magazine when my turn comes up. I don't try to correct everyone who calls it a 'clip'.
Grandpa Bear
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Clips can be used to load magazines
I first decide if it is worth my breath to tell the person the difference or just give them my "you dip-s&%t."
I guess its like the business with pistol and revolver, is the idiot worth correcting? Usually not.
Since most of the anti-gun lobbyists misuse these terms it makes it easier to point out their stupidity on the subject of firearms in general.
For those I choose to correct I use the simplest explanation I can, "a magazine has a spring and a follower, the follower is that thing that pushes the cartridge up." I like to use the AR-15/M-16 stripper clips/magazines when I can lay my hands on them, to also show the difference with, "you can use a clip to load a magazine; you can't load a clip from a magazine."
I first decide if it is worth my breath to tell the person the difference or just give them my "you dip-s&%t."
I guess its like the business with pistol and revolver, is the idiot worth correcting? Usually not.
Since most of the anti-gun lobbyists misuse these terms it makes it easier to point out their stupidity on the subject of firearms in general.
For those I choose to correct I use the simplest explanation I can, "a magazine has a spring and a follower, the follower is that thing that pushes the cartridge up." I like to use the AR-15/M-16 stripper clips/magazines when I can lay my hands on them, to also show the difference with, "you can use a clip to load a magazine; you can't load a clip from a magazine."
pinduck
US Veteran
Roger Miller said it best " You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd, etc, etc "
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Cdog
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Nothing, anything? I couldn't care any less what term someone uses.
I prefer to be like a clock. I sit quietly and only provide information people want.
I have nothing to gain by correcting people. It only alienates the unwashed. If they want to learn, they will pick it up on their own.
Clips Or Magazines?
I really don't care what they call them. I know what they mean.
What never ceases to amaze & amuse me is they way people
on forums(including this one)are always ready to jump on some
one when they use "improper terminology". Maybe there should
be a sticky that noobs(including myself)can refer to so that they
get it right. Maybe we should just lighten up!
I really don't care what they call them. I know what they mean.
What never ceases to amaze & amuse me is they way people
on forums(including this one)are always ready to jump on some
one when they use "improper terminology". Maybe there should
be a sticky that noobs(including myself)can refer to so that they
get it right. Maybe we should just lighten up!
Harrison
US Veteran
My generation was taught in basic training the difference between a magazine and a clip. We were also taught that the army issued pistols (1911a1) and revolvers (S&W K frame), and that the two were not the same. We also called our rifle a gun, only once. Oh yea, DIs could and did lay hands on a wayward cruit.
I, and everyone I knew called them air bottles for my whole career. Must be a regional thing.
canesfan33068
Member
Rims or Wheels
I find it odd but unfortunately it has become common place like the term "Google it" or "Tweet". There are alot of people in this Country and alot of them live in Urban areas where they don't grow up around Guns or Gun owners. So they grab what they know about Guns from TV and Movies.
Just like at some point Wheels became Rims. I have never served in the Military or been in Law Enforcement but I know people from both groups and they seem to use the term Magazine. It cathes my attention but I write it off as a sign of the times.
I find it odd but unfortunately it has become common place like the term "Google it" or "Tweet". There are alot of people in this Country and alot of them live in Urban areas where they don't grow up around Guns or Gun owners. So they grab what they know about Guns from TV and Movies.
Just like at some point Wheels became Rims. I have never served in the Military or been in Law Enforcement but I know people from both groups and they seem to use the term Magazine. It cathes my attention but I write it off as a sign of the times.
canesfan33068
Member
This is ugly
People who seem not to be able to divorce themselves from their need to worry about Americans exercising their rights start out with calling Gun owners "Gun Nuts" and before you know it graduate straight to the term "Nuts" or "Nut".
It is hard to have any type of civil conversation once it gets to that point. I would have to agree that it would get to me to be labeled as a "Gun Nut" or Nut" rather than "Average American" or Firearms owner".
I have even started to wince when I read threads that start out, "I am an active shooter."
Even though they do not mean "active shooter" in the context of what has been in the news lately.
People who seem not to be able to divorce themselves from their need to worry about Americans exercising their rights start out with calling Gun owners "Gun Nuts" and before you know it graduate straight to the term "Nuts" or "Nut".
It is hard to have any type of civil conversation once it gets to that point. I would have to agree that it would get to me to be labeled as a "Gun Nut" or Nut" rather than "Average American" or Firearms owner".
I have even started to wince when I read threads that start out, "I am an active shooter."
Even though they do not mean "active shooter" in the context of what has been in the news lately.
mjr
Member
It's odd how some folks are contemptuous of non-gun people who don't know the different between a magazine and a clip, yet they themselves have never taken the 20 or 30 minutes it should take to master the difference between "affect" and "effect" or among "there," "their," and "they're."
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Ray Vaughn
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It doesn't matter what is is called if both parties know what it is. Not everyone cares to be technical in their hobby conversations.
The WW2 vets that taught me to shoot in the 1960s called the magazine for the 1911 I was shooting a "clip".
If we as a group nit-pick over magazine v clip or assault weapon v semi-automatic military looking rifle...we have lost. That is not what the battle is about.
The WW2 vets that taught me to shoot in the 1960s called the magazine for the 1911 I was shooting a "clip".
If we as a group nit-pick over magazine v clip or assault weapon v semi-automatic military looking rifle...we have lost. That is not what the battle is about.
doublesharp
Member
From the "beat the dead horse" files. If there is even one legitimate exception then it isn't an absolute. Here are two:
Marlin is all wrong!
Jack Roy's gun store
Marlin is all wrong!
Jack Roy's gun store
Roadtrash
US Veteran
When I was just a wee lad everybody seemed to call them clips. Then when I joined the Army I was taught the correct nomenclature for various rifle and pistol parts. Actually I learned most of it in ROTC in high school.
Also when I was a youngster every thing was a pistol whether it was a revolver or a semi-auto. And let's face it at one time there were no auto's just revolvers and they were called pistols from the flintlock to the SAA.
Anyway it doesn't really bother me very much if they use clip or magazine as long as we both know what we are talking about.
Now it does bother me when old what's her name starts talking about high capacity magazine clips. She's supposed to be, and I said supposed to be, an intelligent person as she works in Washington. I know, I know, most of them are dumb as a bunch of rocks but they are supposed to be smart people.
Either way I don't let it bother me it's just not worth it.
Just my two cents.
Also when I was a youngster every thing was a pistol whether it was a revolver or a semi-auto. And let's face it at one time there were no auto's just revolvers and they were called pistols from the flintlock to the SAA.
Anyway it doesn't really bother me very much if they use clip or magazine as long as we both know what we are talking about.
Now it does bother me when old what's her name starts talking about high capacity magazine clips. She's supposed to be, and I said supposed to be, an intelligent person as she works in Washington. I know, I know, most of them are dumb as a bunch of rocks but they are supposed to be smart people.
Either way I don't let it bother me it's just not worth it.
Just my two cents.
Teddydog
Member
Aren't they all now "High Caliber Amunition Magazine Clips" or something of that nature? The Media cannot have it wrong.
Rob
Rob
richeyo2
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litenlarry
Member
Hickock45 has a video out about mag vs clip..pretty good..
Magazine vs Clip - YouTube
Magazine vs Clip - YouTube
You want an earful? Go shoe shopping with my wife. You will quickly learn the difference between "white", "off-white", "oyster" and "pearl." And why it's important.
Someone mentioned the old "automatic" vs "semi-automatic" thing. When I was a youngster I never heard anyone use the term "semi-automatic." I knew what it meant from the writings of Jack O'Conner, same place I learned about "clip" vs magazine by the way, but I never heard anybody use "semi-automatic." A Browning A5, was a "Browning Automatic." A 1911 was a "45 Automatic."
A machine gun, well, that was a "full-automatic." Never heard the term "submachine gun" either. Again, Jack taught me the difference.
Someone mentioned the old "automatic" vs "semi-automatic" thing. When I was a youngster I never heard anyone use the term "semi-automatic." I knew what it meant from the writings of Jack O'Conner, same place I learned about "clip" vs magazine by the way, but I never heard anybody use "semi-automatic." A Browning A5, was a "Browning Automatic." A 1911 was a "45 Automatic."
A machine gun, well, that was a "full-automatic." Never heard the term "submachine gun" either. Again, Jack taught me the difference.
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labworm
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Although someone means to say magazine, every now and then the word Clip slips out. Done it myself, imagine that?
No big deal, I understand what the other party is saying.
No big deal
, I understand what the other party is saying.
