Posted: 11/28/2007 12:44:09 PM EDT
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Went with my son to his Tiger Cub (First year) Cub Scout meeting last night. The meeting was actually a tour of the police station down town. We live in a small town so the tour guide was our police cheif. At one point the chief has everyone sitting in the situation room and is going over what police officers carry in thier belts. He gets to the point where he is showing the childeren he has two spare "magazines" for his pistol. When one of the 6 year old boys raises his hand. The chief stops and asks if he has a question and the boy says those are clips not magazines. He stumbles through a babble and finally has to admit they are actually called clips not magazines. I could hardly keep from laughting out loud. Just thought you might like it also |
Magazine: Definition –noun 1. a publication that is issued periodically, usually bound in a paper cover, and typically contains essays, stories, poems, etc., by many writers, and often photographs and drawings, frequently specializing in a particular subject or area, as hobbies, news, or sports. 2. a room or place for keeping gunpowder and other explosives, as in a fort or on a warship. 3. a building or place for keeping military stores, as arms, ammunition, or provisions. 4. a metal receptacle for a number of cartridges, inserted into certain types of automatic weapons and when empty removed and replaced by a full receptacle in order to continue firing. ( this is like a 50 cal from the movies with the metal ammo can attached) 5. Also called magazine show. Radio and Television. a. Also called newsmagazine. a regularly scheduled news program consisting of several short segments in which various subjects of current interest are examined, usually in greater detail than on a regular newscast. b. a program with a varied format that combines interviews, commentary, entertainment, etc. 6. magazine section. 7. Photography. cartridge (def. 4). 8. a supply chamber, as in a stove. 9. a storehouse; warehouse. 10. a collection of war munitions Clip: Definition 1: any of various devices that grip, clasp, or hook 2: a device to hold cartridges for charging the magazines of some rifles; (Like Stripper Clips) also : a magazine from which ammunition is fed into the chamber of a firearm 3: a piece of jewelry held in position by a clip I can tell you I was taught by ye old sargent that a clip was a removable spring loaded devise that charges the chamber of your rifle ; A Magazine is place where you keep ammunitions. |
| "ye old sargent" is wrong. Clips do not have springs. Magazines do. Look at a Lee-Enfield stripper clip. No springs. Just bent metal. Look at a Garand clip. No springs. Just bent metal. The Garand clip goes into a non-detachable magazine - see the spring-loaded follower that pushes the rounds up to the chamber? Automatic pistols use removable MAGAZINES - not clips! |
