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minus-squareneanderthal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·21 days ago clips. Magazines. Magazines include a feeding mechanism, usually a spring. Clips just hold bullets together.
minus-squarerockSlayer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·21 days agoSo then all magazines are clips, but not all clips are magazines.
minus-squareneanderthal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·21 days agoSort of. Another way of thinking about it. Clips feed magazines, magazines feed guns. https://www.fieldandstream.com/gear/clip-vs-magazine/?origin=serp_auto
minus-squarerockSlayer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·21 days agoYou missed my point. I own guns, know how to operate them, and know the names of the parts. I use magazine and clip interchangeably, because pointless pedantry doesn’t contribute anything to the conversation.
Magazines. Magazines include a feeding mechanism, usually a spring. Clips just hold bullets together.
So then all magazines are clips, but not all clips are magazines.
Sort of. Another way of thinking about it. Clips feed magazines, magazines feed guns.
https://www.fieldandstream.com/gear/clip-vs-magazine/?origin=serp_auto
You missed my point. I own guns, know how to operate them, and know the names of the parts. I use magazine and clip interchangeably, because pointless pedantry doesn’t contribute anything to the conversation.