"clip" versus "magazine" - word usage matters?

[Haxby]

According to the NRA Firearms Fact Book, "...in 1909-1910 U. S. Ordnance reports referred to the "clip" (not "magazine") of the upcoming service pistol..."

Senator Feinstein seems to have the terminology covered with:
"...a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds."
and
"...large-capacity ammunition feeding devices capable of accepting more than 10 rounds."

 

[DanTheFarmer]

I'm going with larryh on this one.

Arguing clip vs. magazine doesn't get us very in much in a discussion. Those who are interested will look forward to learning the difference should they be using/talking about those relatively rare weapons that use an actual clip. Otherwise it comes across as nit picking. As far as what your Drill Instructor called, I figured the faster I learned HIS terminology the faster I got my face out of the dirt. I tended to learn things his way pretty fast.

Assault weapon vs. assault rifle is an important distinction and care should be taken, in my opinion, to use the terms properly.

By the way, as a former Army Ordnance officer, I spent a good deal of time working in a magazine (known by those outside the field as an "ammo bunker"!) Words have multiple meanings.

Dan

 

[lloveless]

BHP I was not implying anything about my old man can whip anything. Merely, the first gun I shot was a 1911 it had a clip as did dad's .32 acp Jaguar from France. Until I was in my 20's everyone called them "clips". Everyone knew what we were talking about. WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? I don't get the need to berate people over their choice of words, when we all know what they are talking about.
ll

 

[taliv]

good grief, people

3 pages of "clip vs magazine"?? don't we have anything better to discuss?