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- From: jeffc@sad.hp.com (Jeff Crowell)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Clips are not magazines
- Message-ID: <C1HEI0.13t@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 03:39:58 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID)
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- Nosy (ataylor@nmsu.edu) wrote:
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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'.
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- : Clips are pieces of metal which do not enclose or completely
- ^^^^^^^^^^
- : surround cartridges.
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- Does this mean that the cartridge storage device on my Springfield
- Armory M1911A1 is a 'clip'? It has holes in it so I can see how many
- bullets I have left.
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- Also, does it mean that the plastic thingie I put shells into to shoot
- in my 10-22 (or my Glock, come to think of it) isn't a magazine?
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- Oh, yeah. 8-)
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- Jeff
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