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- From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Clips are not magazines
- Message-ID: <ATAYLOR.93Jan25172736@gauss.nmsu.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:52:24 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: NMSU Computer Science
- Lines: 32
- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- At the risk of being pedantic, I'd like to get on my
- soapbox and point out that magazines are metal objects
- that surround cartridges (NOT "BULLETS") with a spring
- and 'follower'.
-
- Clips are pieces of metal which do not enclose or completely
- surround cartridges.
-
- All modern self-loading pistols (with the exception of
- the early Grendels) that I know of use MAGAZINES. Early
- self-loading pistols such as the "broomhandle" Mauser
- used CLIPS. The early Grendels used CLIPS.
-
- The M1A (civilianized M14) uses a MAGAZINE.
-
- The M1 Garand uses a CLIP.
-
- The M1 Carbine uses a MAGAZINE, but a CLIP may be used
- to load the MAGAZINE (as may be done with the M1A/M14,
- AR-15/M16 MAGAZINES as well.)
-
- Yes, it seems a trivial distinction, just as making the
- difference between "bullet" and "cartridge" seems trivial...
- until one takes up reloading.
-
- Bear in mind, however, that laws have been proposed
- limiting the size of "clips"....as well as "clips,
- magazines and/or feeding devices"; these laws did not
- define what such things were, however.
-
- It behooves us to know what we are talking about.
-