Do you correct someone if they refer to a magazine as a clip?

Do you correct someone if they refer to a magazine as a clip?

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Why bother? Even manufactures refer to them as "clips" so it's pretty much universal using either/or and everyone knows what the "clip" user means for a removable mag gun. I went down this road with my daughter when she was 9 or 10 thinking I was the big teacher. She started calling them "those clipymag things". I was done.
 
Only when when with somebody, in person. I corrected my brother twice, because he sounds like a bit of a (for example) Youtube amateur "good ole' boy" if the word magazine isn't consistent.

It it weren't for the M-1 Garand, the 60's tv show Combat and movies Band Of Brothers/S. Private Ryan (or SKS' stripper clip), this topic would not exist.
 
Is a gun magazine something that you read or is a gun magazine something that holds ammo???
 
I won't correct a stranger, but If I know you, I'm saying something.


I work in the wireless phone industry, and the one that makes my ears bleed is when someone calls a sim card a sims card. I can't let it go without saying something anymore. There seriously needs to be a PSA for this phenomenon.
 
Scooter22 said:
Why bother? Even manufactures refer to them as "clips" so it's pretty much universal using either/or and everyone knows what the "clip" user means for a removable mag gun.
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Just out of curiosity, what manufacturers in particular refer to semi-auto pistol magazines as "clips?" I ask because I've been buying autoloaders since, oh, about 1978 or thereabouts, and every single manual in the box that's come with the many (far too many) new pistols I've purchased, has used the correct nomenclature. As does every major gun manufacturers' websites.

And yes, I'll say something. It IS a magazine, dadgummit. There's enough ignorance on display from the mainstream media when it comes to firearms. It should be addressed.
 
Just out of curiosity, what manufacturers in particular refer to semi-auto pistol magazines as "clips?"
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I'm not sure that any manufacturer of semi-auto pistol magazines has ever referred to them as clips.

However, Remington has advertised and sold magazines for various rifle models, both for semi-auto and manual repeaters, listed as clips on their website and packaged labeled as "Magazine Clips" or 'Extra Clips". It has also referred to various rifle models, again both semi-auto and manual repeaters, as "clip fed repeaters".

If you do an image search on the internet, you can come up with some pictures of the packaging. The current Remington advertizing/packaging doesn't appear to use the term 'clip', however, you can still download vintage owner's manuals which use that terminology.

Here are some examples:

https://www.remington.com/sites/default/files/5559 - Remington 581-582 Owner's Manual - Rev 04-1982_1.pdf

https://www.remington.com/sites/default/files/Nylon 66.pdf

https://www.remington.com/sites/default/files/6650 - Remington 541S Owner's Manual - Rev 10-1980.pdf

https://www.remington.com/sites/default/files/Model742.pdf
 
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When it matters. Same with grammar. I work with writers. I correct because it is the friendly and professional thing to do.
 
Depends. When wrong terminology creates confusion in the conversation it sometimes becomes necessary. Rarely with clip and magazine. More often with reloading terminology.
 
Old Dog said:
Just out of curiosity, what manufacturers in particular refer to semi-auto pistol magazines as "clips?" I ask because I've been buying autoloaders since, oh, about 1978 or thereabouts, and every single manual in the box that's come with the many (far too many) new pistols I've purchased, has used the correct nomenclature. As does every major gun manufacturers' websites.

And yes, I'll say something. It IS a magazine, dadgummit. There's enough ignorance on display from the mainstream media when it comes to firearms. It should be addressed.
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Remington. Marlin, and Mossberg I remember. Sometimes just "clip" or "clip magazine". Generally these are older guns and many are .22s. Look up some of the ads or manuals .You can Google .22 Ads and look at the images.
 
In literature leading up to the 1960s the dividing line between "clip" and "magazine" seems to be whether or not the device in question is considered to be expended and disposable after a single use. If it is normally reloaded after normal use it is regarded as a magazine, otherwise it is just a clip.
 
That sounds correct... What magazine are you going to throw away after a single use? That's going to increase your shooting cost substantially!

Heck, I don't think anyone really tosses stripper clips either, lol.
 
theotherwaldo said:
In literature leading up to the 1960s the dividing line between "clip" and "magazine" seems to be whether or not the device in question is considered to be expended and disposable after a single use. If it is normally reloaded after normal use it is regarded as a magazine, otherwise it is just a clip.
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In some such literature, perhaps, but in a lot of advertising literature, parts lists, packing sheets, written instructions, articles, books, and in old Army manuals, what people so properly insist to be correctly called "magazines" have been referred to as "clips", and not all that infrequently.

Do I "correct" someone? NO! I question the reasonableness of those who would insist on doing so.
 
dh1633pm said:
Don't see why it matters. Like asking for a Coke and getting a Pepsi. It happens.
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Mattered a great deal to me in 1968. Not so much now. Clips were "charge clips" for rapidly loading magazines. When the guy next to me yelled, "toss me a magazine" he would get a clip. Merely semantics now. Didn't try to correct his terminology. That's just rude ;)...
 
Milt1 said:
I assume that we're talking about adults. Adults should not correct other adults is the way that I look at this unless it's in a teaching position where one is the instructor and the other is a student.
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Much as I despise redundancy, sometimes I do wish we were allowed to post more than 1 "like", for I surely would have done so, Milt1. kudos
 
I used to do that, but I mellowed out with age, I guess. Gun, clips, bullets, doesn't matter unless there needs a distinction to be made for a valid reason.
 
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