Clip or Magazine

[Big Frank]

That's not a magzine, it's a catalog. Call it by it's right name.

[blackwolfe]

Seems to me that one the major firearms manufacturers used a "C" designation in some of their magazine fed rifles Model Numbers with the "C" denoting clip.  I think it was for a removable magazine as opposed to an internal fixed magazine.

[tombogan03884]

Everyone here that has read my spiel about "ignorant" versus "stupid" knows that I agree using the correct word is important to accurately express thoughts and idea's.
That being said, If the manufacturers themselves use the words interchangeably (at least as far back as the M-1 carbine's "Banana clip" )
It seems to me that the makers should know what their parts are called.
Which renders this whole debate, where otherwise knowledgeable people are arguing over clip or magazine, a ridiculous time waster.
Besides, you're all wrong any way, the box is a clip that inserts into a "well" type magazine. Same idea as the Garand.

[kmitch200]

Sure looks like a mag to me...

[billt]

I don't know why this causes panties to bunch up, but it sure seems to.

This whole "clip" vs. "magazine" issue spiked with the introduction of the Internet, and so much printed word. Personally, hearing or seeing someone calling a shotgun a "shotty" irritates me far more than someone slipping and calling a magazine a "clip".

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[DaverZ]

Personally I have more important things to worry about.If some people want to use the wrong terminology let them,they can look ignorant all they want,us guys know better.Right now I'm going through a magazine,going to clip an article about a stripper.

[Solus]

Everyone here that has read my spiel about "ignorant" versus "stupid" knows that I agree using the correct word is important to accurately express thoughts and idea's.

Now this thread is a good example of Tom's spiel.

If you use the wrong terminology for magazine or clip because you don't know the correct definitions and usage, you are ignorant.

If you learned the correct terminology, but continue to use the wrong terms because you can't keep them straight or are to careless and lazy to think before you speak, you are stupid.

[tombogan03884]

Personally I have more important things to worry about.If some people want to use the wrong terminology let them,they can look ignorant all they want,us guys know better.Right now I'm going through a magazine,going to clip an article about a stripper.

WOW, You really do have higher priorities !   

[billt]

Now this thread is a good example of Tom's spiel.

If you use the wrong terminology for magazine or clip because you don't know the correct definitions and usage, you are ignorant.

If you learned the correct terminology, but continue to use the wrong terms because you can't keep them straight or are to careless and lazy to think before you speak, you are stupid.

Has anyone ever heard the term "clip" instead of "magazine" and not known what the person was referring to? And it's TOO careless and lazy, not "to". Point being we can all be experts at picking the fly $h!t out of the pepper. What does it prove?

[tombogan03884]

Has anyone ever heard the term "clip" instead of "magazine" and not known what the person was referring to? And it's TOO careless and lazy, not "to". Point being we can all be experts at picking the fly $h!t out of the pepper. What does it prove?

I'm stealing that