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.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'm not sure that any manufacturer of semi-auto pistol magazines has ever referred to them as clips.Just out of curiosity, what manufacturers in particular refer to semi-auto pistol magazines as "clips?"
Me either.I didn't know there was a dispute over magazines vs. clips until I joined gun boards on the internet.
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.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.
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.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.
Don't see why it matters. Like asking for a Coke and getting a Pepsi. It happens.
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.
If they're an anti-gun Richard, I correct EVERYTHING, including their grammar.