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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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