Why people call Mags clips?

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Originally Posted by Evil Tim

Well yeah, but by the US legal meaning a sear can be a machine gun, even though a sear isn't a gun at all.

Of a block of metal with a S/N stamped on it that has a Tax stamp associated with it. Remember when the ATF tried to declare a 'shoelace' when tied to the trigger of a weapon whose vibration would initiate another firing pin actuation, to be a machine gun. Yes, a SHOELACE would be a machine gun if attached to a semiauto rifle. Either way that is WHY no historian or scholar would use the Lawyer's definition of a machine gun.

According to government lawyers, if you spill a bunch of water on your own property and don't drain it in less than 30 days, that property magically becomes a 'wetland' and is protected by the EPA. Doesn't matter that NO environmental scientist or botanist or whatever would EVER even look at that land as a 'wetland'.

Acceding to Lawyer speak in this realm means giving in to 'crazy town' definitions.