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Well a TEC-9 can be a machine-gun by the basic dictionary or the US legal meaning of a firearm shooting more than one bullet with a pull of the trigger.
Also the 'perception' of mags being clips and so on is reality because it is very prolific. Not so much "tec-9 machinegun, m1 garand assault rifle". If I picked a random individual on the street he or she would likely not even know what a tec 9 or a m1 garand is. Also if said person knew of these firearms by name, more likely than not they would know that said firearm is not an mg or assault rifle. |
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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. Last edited by Evil Tim; 04-29-2012 at 09:27 AM. |
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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. |
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I'm playing devil's advocate and yeah it's incorrect practice to call a mag a clip. I just think it's obnoxious to snap on someone for something small like that. |
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To give the example I should have given to begin with, "chaingun" is a good example of a term almonst universally used incorrectly. You ask your average man on the street what a chaingun is and you'll almost certainly have a gatling gun described to you. Which is fine until you're trying to explain what kind of gun a Bradley has and realise the actual term for it doesn't mean what it's supposed to anymore. Last edited by Evil Tim; 04-30-2012 at 01:06 PM. |
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Maybe it is a regional thing (I'm from England) but I have never heard someone refer to a rifle magazine as a clip, only pistol magazines. Also soldiers today definitely know the difference between a magazine and a clip, otherwise you would get situations like you carry 8 clips in your webbing and 15 clips in a bandolier and to fill up a clip you empty 3 clips into it. This is just my personal opinion, but I've always thought that the reason clip is used rather than magazine is because it is a "cooler" sounding word, so gets overused (relative to the correct term magazine) in films, television and music, leading to people thinking it is the correct term. Personally I won't correct someone if they use the term incorrectly in conversation, I will just take that as a cue that I probably know more about the subject than them.
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