Poll of the Day > Clip v Mag

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A lot of people will give flak for someone saying "clip" over "mag". For people who didn't grow up with guns, but grew up with games, a lot of them (games) used the word "clip" over "magazine". Turok is one of these games, as I've recently purchased the updated version on Xbox One, and they didn't change "clip" to "mag". So "Picked up a clip" meant "You got more ammo", and most of us never knew any better.
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I just call them bullet houses.


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I used the word "holster" outside of the term for a place you put your gun one time on the MS Xbox forums, and I got flak for that from about fifteen people, even though I was right, as the English language allows for such a thing, and now people use "____ holster" as an insult, commonly. Started a thing, I did.
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Clips and magazines are different things, which is why it will bother me. Clips actually clip onto the rounds, while magazines house rounds inside of them. The majority of guns use magazines. The Springfield rifle used in ww2 used clips. If you've ever played a ww2 game, or watched a movie set during the war and you hear a ping sound when a rifle used by an American is emptied, that was the clip getting ejected from the gun. I don't know if they still use them, but the Marine Corps used to use stripper clips to load magazines faster.

It's a wrongly used term that keeps getting perpetuated by people that don't know any better, don't care, or think it sounds cooler. I'd be fine with the term if it was simply slang, but it's just incorrect.
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Right ^

But the fact that games made in the 90s by Americans who should have known better didn't teach us what is right says a lot in defense of a bunch of us.
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zebatov posted...

Right ^

But the fact that games made in the 90s by Americans who should have known better didn't teach us what is right says a lot in defense of a bunch of us.

Californians shouldn't know about guns.
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For me, a magazine will always be that glossy book.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I just call them bullet houses.

lol
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Speedloaders can be considered clips, as they are attached via clipping
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