LJ;1350657 wrote:False
I would value someone's opinion more that called it by it's proper medical term than a "baby scraping"
LoL it's not analogous to calling it "baby scraping". In fact, it's kind of similar to using the term "partial birth abortion" in place of intact dilation and extraction.
lots of Military personnel, law-abiding gun owners and police officers often incorrectly use the term "clip" when they mean to refer to a magazine. In my unit we used the term "clip" incorrectly if memory serves but we all knew what we meant. It is neat to know the true difference but is silly to focus on this and discredit their opinion.
It'd be like this;
a guy says: "We should get rid of the home mortgage interest deduction and all the other loop holes!" and a tax economist responds "Maybe we'd take your opinion seriously if you used the proper term "tax expenditure."
It's silly. In fact it seems to be a silly debate amongst gun enthusiasts. I saw these responses on a Clip v. Mag thread on another forum for gun enthusiasts.
http://www.gunrightsmedia.com/showthread.php?424919-Clip-vs-magazine-lol/page2
I’ve never made it an issue about someone calling a magazine a clip. Although incorrect I know what they mean.
If someone calls a cartridge a bullet I know what they mean.
You likely call your car’s generator an alternator. No biggie, I know what you mean.
I merely meant to point out that many of us do not always use the technically correct term and shouldn’t get bent out of shape because of this.
Never called a car engine a "motor" before?
It doesn't slow me down too much,
I have guns with mags and clips,
they both hold bullets. I actually
prefer clips,
like my Garand uses, they're a lot simpler, and don't
jut out of the rifle, and snag on "thingies".
But in reality, as an avid shooter with 20+
guns, I just don't care, really. Do you?

I have clips and I have mags.
If I say the wrong nomenclature, am I a ***?
Such a silly thread. Really...

NO, not a ***.
But if you spaz out whenever somebody calls
a mag a clip, you make a "***" look like a saint...
I've had gunshop people say that a magazine is called a clip when it's a handgun magazine. Bugs me to no end.
I should take a few Mosin-Nagant clips with me to Cabela's and ask them if they can find me some, they're always talking about clips there.
Same people don't know what to call the box a belt of ammo is, they probably call it a clip too, as it clips onto the MG.
Also, clips in the top, mags in the bottom. Easy to remember.
I brought that up already... that, or a magalip.
And what about the Lewis machine gun magalip/clipazine/drum/pan? Loaded from the top. And the Thompson 50-rd drum?
Actually, due to age-old verbal habit, I still call things like the .45 mag a "clip" once in a while, since I was shooting long before this silliness arose. And to me, a rifle is still a gun.
Oh, let's see... I think this is the 3,284th thread, across the gun boards I frequent, that this has come up in since about 2006. Check me on that number though, I want to be precise.
This is all a language game. Are we going to start discussing the philosophy of language and argue about Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam and how words obtain meaning?? In popular American discussions between non-gun aficionados you know what people are talking about. Even people who have competently used guns make this mistake.
People who call tax expenditures loopholes deserve consideration when giving their opinion on tax policy; people who call intact dilation and extraction partial-birth abortion deserve consideration when giving their opinion on abortion and people who call magazines clips deserve consideration when giving their opinion on gun policy.