Gun people again.

Not asking what is the correct word mind you but what actual word do you actually use day to day to

  • Clip

    Votes: 29 39.2%

  • Magazine

    Votes: 42 56.8%

  • Other.

    Votes: 3 4.1%
  • Total voters
    74
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Hodawg said:
It is not snobbery, it is merely a fact of using the correct term. Magazines are any box like object used to contain ammunition in a preloaded fashion, ready for immediate insertion. Clips simply hold onto the base or rim of the cartridge, with the majority of the cartridge exposed. In a magazine, you will only be able to see one or two rounds at the most at the top of the magazine. With clips, you see almost the entire cartidge with all cartridges exposed. Correct usage of the correct term is not snobbery. It's like calling an internal combustion engine a "motor". Sure, lots of people do it, but lots of people are wrong as well. What is the problem of learning the correct terminology when talking about a subject that you have a lot to learn about? I'm just now starting to learn about chickens, and I'm trying to learn things correctly as much as I can. Wouldn't I look foolish, and get corrected by everyone on this forum if I repeatedly got "combs" and "waddles" mixed up? Would the correcting members then be "snobs"?

Beers y'all,
Ken
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Using correct terminology is not being a snob. Throwing a fit cause someone else does not is.
I went to school for auto mechanics an use to run a shop. I now a motor from a engine. I have never in my life seen anyone that was confused cause someone used the wrong one so there is no reason to care what word people use.
Same with clip v/s magazine...
 
Hodawg said:
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Old unabridged Marriem-Webster Dictionary

Clip, .... "A mechanical contrivance used to hold cartridges for use in a firearm."

Magazine.... Among other things... "A locker for the storage of munitions."

Gun... "A smoothbore firearm."

Pistol.... "A handheld weapon with a single chamber."

Revolver.... "A firearms with a rotating cylinder which has multiple chambers coming in line with a common barrel."

Rifle... "a firearm with a rifled barrel"

I wont even get in to the stupidity of the ATF an there classifications of guns.


Edited to add..
Interestingly the 1828 edition of Websters dictionary says this "But one species of fire-arms, the pistol, is never called a gun."
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When humping B-52s in the '70s we were issued 3 magazines of 18 rounds each (stateside). They were never called clips, although today I refer to magazines for pistols as clips. I guess 'cause the bullets are smaller. Go Figure
 
my husbnd and i own and run a gun shop.we sometimes call it a clip ,sometimes a magazine.
 
rebelcowboysnb said:
What percentage of your customers call it which ya figure.
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After looking at your last several posts, rebelcowboysnb, and based on your deep knowledge of the subject on which you started a thread, it is obvious the level of competency that we're dealing with, Sir.

From earlier:

"I went to school for auto mechanics an use to run a shop. I now a motor from a engine."
I believe the words you are so fervently searching for are.. "and", "used", and "know". You might want to write them down.

"What percentage of your customers call it which ya figure."
I still can't figure out what you mean by this........????????

"I have never in my life seen anyone that was confused cause someone used the wrong one so there is no reason to care what word people use."
I believe that the word that you are so futilely looking for is "because", which is sometimes commonly shortened with the preceding apostrophe resulting in " 'cause". "Cause" without the preceding "be" or apostrophe is a totally different word. But since the meanings of words do not seem to matter to you, never mind.

Now, back to your original question of whether the object that you depicted in your original post should be considered a "magazine" or a "clip".

I challenge you to ask the same question on a firearms related forum. Ask their opinions if you will. The answers will 100% come back as "magazine", for the same reasons that I stated earlier.

You can stick with 1800's definitions if you like. Go ahead, tell the friendly Police Officer in California that your 15 round magazine is not a "magazine", but a "clip". You can disregard legal definitions all that you like, but do so at your own peril. Just because (there's that danged word again) you want to change the definitions doesn't make them correct.

Again, I came to this forum to learn about Chickens, a subject that I knew nothing about, and I absorb every bit of information that I can because (there it is again) I will admit that I am basically ignorant on this subject. So, I defer to those with far more information and experience than I possess to help guide me along the way in my newly found hobby.

You decided to interject the firearms subject into a Chicken forum. You obviously do not sit well with not being the expert on everything. Let me assure you, Sir, that even though you may have well over 8,000 posts on this forum in just 2 years, I hold your opinions very low. You must have a lot of time on your hands to type, with little need for true expertise to back up your opinions or definitions.

Ken
 
rebelcowboysnb said:
Engine burns something internally an a motor runs on a outside power source, usually electricity.
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Ok, thanks!!!
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