Clip Magazine

[jmorris]

That also reminds me of a story. Many years ago we were working on a project in the engineering lab at one of the colleges I went to when an engineering student needed to remove a 3/8-16 bolt and had grabbed a 5/8" wrench at first and said aloud "5/8 is too big".

So I told him that the head size of the bolt was 9/16". He came back and went back to it, then told me 9/16" was too small and that the size was in fact 1/2".

The point is, don't always go by "what it says" or it might make you look less intelligent.



I replaced it with a correctly marked wrench the next day and keep it hung up still.

 

[boricua9mm]

There are Marlin mag types that have a latch built into the mag body itself, hence the term, Clip Magazine.

In the bottom left corner you can see the clip/latch that is integrated with the mag.




...but let's not let that technical fact get in the way of a multi-page terminology argument.

 

[d2wing]

According to the dictionary one meaning of clip is, an ammunition carrier that attaches to a firearm. So it is a magazine that can be attached to a firearm. Also types of magazines include cylinders and clips. Clip can mean attachment. So a fixed magazine is not a clip, but a magazine that can be attached is both. So in common use they are the same thing. Clip also refers to a device to hold ammunition. I would conclud that the proper term for a detachable box magazine is a clip magazine. Called either for short. At least by laymen.
It is not wrong for us the narrow the definition and agree that they refer to specific types, but to criticise others for using the broader terms is not correct either.

 

[Theohazard]

When a "rifle" has become a "platform?"

Not this ridiculousness again. The term "platform" is a perfectly acceptable term, people use it to refer to an overall design of firearm and not one specific model. If I was referring to a Daniel Defense DDM4 V5 I would say "rifle", but if I was referring to the overall AR-15 family of designs I would say "platform".

And lo and behold, Merriam Webster agrees! Here is the first part of the definition of "platform" in the Merriam-Webster dictionary:

plat·form\ˈplat-ˌfȯrm\
noun
: a flat surface that is raised higher than the floor or ground and that people stand on when performing or speaking
: a flat area next to railroad tracks where people wait for a train or subway
: a usually raised structure that has a flat surface where people or machines do work

Full Definition

Usage: often attributive
1 : plan, design

(I added the bolding.)

 

[stiab]

Is this something new or have I missed something...

Lots of people have missed that the industry used the terms together or interchangabily for decades, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Remington, Savage, and many others make references to "clips", and it seems to be mainly the folks newer to the hobby that take exception to it. Here's a pic of two Savages, the one on the bottom is a 99-C, and yes the "C" stands for clip...

 

[greenr18]

Damn, I hate language NAZIs!

Yes, it is technically incorrect to call a magazine a clip. It is also incorrect to call your automobile a "car." (cars run on tracks.) It is incorrect to call your weapon a "gun." (guns have wheels on them.)

Aren't there more important issues out there than dissing people who use an incorrect term when everybody knows darn well what they mean?

When I was a child in the 1950s, everyone, even police and soldiers called magazines "clips."

It didn't become an "issue" until "Goofy Jeffie" started whining about i in the gun rags.

Bless you sir.

 

[ColoradoShooter77]

This is highly irritating to me.

A "clip" is what you use to load an SKS....a stripper "clip".

A magazine is what's in your pistol, or rifle that has a box "magazine".

Calling it a magazine-clip is just assanine and confusing.

 

[AK103K]

I think I got it figured out.

These are clip magazines. You load the "clips" into the "magazine".