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- From: se08+@andrew.cmu.edu (Seth Adam Eliot)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Clips are not magazines
- Message-ID: <gfNmyrS00iUyA83eYX@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 04:17:24 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
- In-Reply-To: <ATAYLOR.93Jan25172736@gauss.nmsu.edu>
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- Excerpts from netnews.rec.guns: 26-Jan-93 Clips are not magazines by
- Nosy@nmsu.edu
- # 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.
-
- As more and more people use the word "clip" when referring to a
- "magazine," it becomes a more and more acceptable use of the word.
-
- Oddly enough, in the Berretta catalogue of spare parts, they have a
- section for 'magazines' for their various guns. Every one of them has a
- serial number of the form
-
- xxCLIP-xxx
-
- or something like that (where x is a numerical digit).
-
-
- -Seth
-
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- Carnegie Mellon Univerity, Pittsburgh, PA
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