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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink10•5 months ago clips. Magazines. Magazines include a feeding mechanism, usually a spring. Clips just hold bullets together.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink10•5 months agoNeanderthals were fairly progressive, mancaves came later.
minus-squarePrehensile_cloaca linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoFacts are facts, otherwise they’d be opinions
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-1•5 months agoSo then all magazines are clips, but not all clips are magazines.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•5 months 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-3•5 months 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•5 months agoI think you would say the clip is inside the magazine.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-25 months agoNo, you can have non-removable magazines. The tube in a pump-action shotgun is the magazine, but it’s definitely not a clip.
Magazines. Magazines include a feeding mechanism, usually a spring. Clips just hold bullets together.
Very pedantic for a neanderthal
Neanderthals were fairly progressive, mancaves came later.
Facts are facts, otherwise they’d be opinions
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.
Certainly not to your side of it, eh?
I think you would say the clip is inside the magazine.
No, you can have non-removable magazines. The tube in a pump-action shotgun is the magazine, but it’s definitely not a clip.