No Wonder People Call Them "clips"...

[joatesiii]

I know...it bothers me a bit also, however, I picked up a new Mossberg .22 rifle today and in the instruction manual it specifically describes how to install the "clip magazine"...I will perhaps keep harping on it when I communicate with others, and, perhaps I will be a bit more accepting and understanding...maybe it's not a battle worth winning...

 

[S&W645]

Check history for definition of what a magazine truly is. Magazines were simply storage places for powder, ammo, projectiles, and pre-loaded clips. The military corrupted the term in the late 1800s. The Navy kept the correct terminology on their ships. And the Marines have kept it too. https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=5ddf582b22fa8fa52c050ad48cc00fc3&_cview=0

 

[NavyLCDR]

And the NRA glossary:
NRA-ILA | Glossary

CLIP
A device for holding a group of cartridges. Semantic wars have been fought over the word, with some insisting it is not a synonym for "detachable magazine." For 80 years, however, it has been so used by manufacturers and the military. There is no argument that it can also mean a separate device for holding and transferring a group of cartridges to a fixed or detachable magazine or as a device inserted with cartridges into the mechanism of a firearm becoming, in effect, part of that mechanism.

 

[bellyfat]

an M1 garand uses a clip and it goes ping and fly's out of the gun when the last shot is fired.

 

[NavyLCDR]

an M1 garand uses a clip and it goes ping and fly's out of the gun when the last shot is fired.

And the Army likely stored all those loaded M1 Garand clips in a magazine like this one:

 

[Kramer1113]

Man, I get hung up on that also. Clip, Bullet... But really, its not that I don't understand what they are talking about. Maybe I'm splitting hairs.

 

[CharlieK]

And the 1903 Springfields used a different kind of clip. They held five 30-06 rounds by the rims, so the five rounds could be loaded into the fixed magazine of the Springfield.

 

[S&W645]

And whether the Army likes it or not, at Crane NSWC, the Navy uses the term magazine in the old meaning even for new construction.

The facility includes an internal armory and multiple ammunition magazines, saving NSWC Crane professionals time and money by eliminating the need to transport items from off-site locations. The new ammunition conditioning bay enhances NSWC Crane's ability to test and analyze ammunition in different environmental conditions by allowing it to be heated or cooled to precise temperatures.

Observation bunkers, located at 600, 1,000 and 1,400 yards down range, allow workers to quickly and efficiently replace used targets and are equipped with high-definition video recorders to allow for accurate visual records.

Link Removed Crane also hosts Crane Army Ammunition Activity.

 

[S&W645]

And the 1903 Springfields used a different kind of clip. They held five 30-06 rounds by the rims, so the five rounds could be loaded into the fixed magazine of the Springfield.

Same guns also were rebarreled to take .270WIN. Mosin-Nagant 91/30 and M44 also used clips to load an integral 5 round mag of 7.62X54R.

 

[NavyLCDR]

Man, I get hung up on that also. Clip, Bullet... But really, its not that I don't understand what they are talking about. Maybe I'm splitting hairs.

Bullet v. round is my big one.

 

[K7lvo]

And the Army likely stored all those loaded M1 Garand clips in a magazine like this one:

There are big magazines, there are little magazines - both enclose powder and projectile - and there are magazines we READ. Then, there are "magazine-clips."

 

[NotTwoShure]

I cannot help it so here goes.
A Master Chief Petty officer was listing in on a new sailor’s conversation, running in he yelled at them stating, if any of you worms call this deck a floor or that bulkhead a wall, I am going to throw you out of that little round hole in the side of this boat.

 

[jcreek]

I know...it bothers me a bit also, however, I picked up a new Mossberg .22 rifle today and in the instruction manual it specifically describes how to install the "clip magazine"...I will perhaps keep harping on it when I communicate with others, and, perhaps I will be a bit more accepting and understanding...maybe it's not a battle worth winning...

Are you really surprised? Have ever actually read a firearm manual? They read like they were written by mentally challenged foreign school children.

 

[SR40c]

I cannot help it so here goes.
A Master Chief Petty officer was listing in on a new sailor’s conversation, running in he yelled at them stating, if any of you worms call this deck a floor or that bulkhead a wall, I am going to throw you out of that little round hole in the side of this boat.

I remember that same thing from bootcamp. "If any of you chit stain recruits call my deck a floor, I will turn you in to a steaming pile of chit". Had to love those CC's that served on river boats in Vietnam.

Now, you do realize that a "boat" is a submarine... right?

 

[jathtech]

in the NRA article, it says that the military uses the terms interchangeably. This is not true. The military is what caused this pickiness about the terminology. They don't let you call a rifle a gun, they don't let you call a round a bullet, and they don't let you call a magazine a clip. If you've ever been in the military and you call a magazine clip, or make any of the other terminology mess ups, you're likely to get smoked i.e. be forced*to do a lot of pushups.

 

[UATKP]

Well... how about "booger hook" and "bang stick"...? )

 

[NotTwoShure]

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I remember that same thing from bootcamp. "If any of you chit stain recruits call my deck a floor, I will turn you in to a steaming pile of chit". Had to love those CC's that served on river boats in Vietnam.

Now, you do realize that a "boat" is a submarine... right?

Yea, boat, ship, all that sort of thing, he was a B.T. and could hear everything he wanted, otherwise he said he was deaf. Other issues was the way I found out what a B.A.M. was.

 

[tbc27143]

I bought a computer mouse once that was made in China and the manual was written in China. In the definitions in the manual it said......Mouse - a furry little rodent. Some Chinaman got it straight out of dictionary apparently but it certainly had nothing to do with being a computer mouse.

 

[maine04619]

Are you really surprised? Have ever actually read a firearm manual? They read like they were written by mentally challenged foreign school children.

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