Why people call Mags clips?

[Spades of Columbia]

It cant be ignorance if big companies in the industry also call them clips...take a look at at Marlin 17hmr rifle box because it says that the gun comes with a 4rd & 7rd clip....hmmmm....if marlin calls it a clip can people be concidered 100% wrong.

[mpe2010]

Around here clips and magazines are practically interchangeable. One notable gun store here has an old bucket helmet full of 1911 "clips." I know I called them magazines or clips up until several years ago when I was enlightened by you guys.

[Excalibur]

Originally Posted by Spades of Columbia

It cant be ignorance if big companies in the industry also call them clips...take a look at at Marlin 17hmr rifle box because it says that the gun comes with a 4rd & 7rd clip....hmmmm....if marlin calls it a clip can people be concidered 100% wrong.

It's most likely because the people who wrote the advertisement is also wrong. Just because an "expert" says it, doesn't mean it is right all the time. People can be wrong

And I checked their site, Marlin actually calls them "clip magazines"

[AdAstra2009]

Does it really make a difference if someone refers to a mag as a clip. If you search 30 round clip in google search you'll get back 30 round magazine as a search result. Magazine and clip nowadays are interchangeable terms. Bagging on someone for calling a magazine a clip is just nitpicking. Stripper clip on the other hand.

[Yournamehere]

Originally Posted by AdAstra2009

Does it really make a difference if someone refers to a mag as a clip. If you search 30 round clip in google search you'll get back 30 round magazine as a search result. Magazine and clip nowadays are interchangeable terms. Bagging on someone for calling a magazine a clip is just nitpicking. Stripper clip on the other hand.

It's not nitpicking since they are different in a simple technical sense. They are both different items and perform different functions. I agree it's one thing to correct someone for technical purposes and another to do it for the sake of being an elitist asshole, but small details matter in pretty much every hobby.

I find myself doing what predator20 does mostly though, constant reference to the item being a magazine and not a clip when referring to a magazine, as it's the most subtle and mannerly way of letting the correct information get out. Rarely do I outwardly dispute the difference between a magazine and a clip unless I'm among company who respects me and who I respect enough to know it's not about ego, it's just about correct terminology.

[Evil Tim]

Originally Posted by AdAstra2009

Does it really make a difference if someone refers to a mag as a clip.

Depends, does it really matter if someone calls a TEC-9 a machine gun or an M1 Garand an assault rifle?

[Excalibur]

Originally Posted by Evil Tim

Depends, does it really matter if someone calls a TEC-9 a machine gun or an M1 Garand an assault rifle?

A tech 9 a machine gun? Ok, that's kinda true.

An M1 is NOT an assault rifle in any sense of the definition because it isn't select fire.

[Evil Tim]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

A tech 9 a machine gun? Ok, that's kinda true.

Um, except the part where it's semi-automatic.

[AdAstra2009]

Originally Posted by Evil Tim

Depends, does it really matter if someone calls a TEC-9 a machine gun or an M1 Garand an assault rifle?

Not really.
Though the M1 Garand's a bit of a stretch and TEC-9s can be machine guns..
All I'm saying is clip is now modern vernacular for magazine.

Perception is reality

[Yournamehere]

Originally Posted by AdAstra2009

Not really.
Though the M1 Garand's a bit of a stretch and TEC-9s can be machine guns..
All I'm saying is clip is now modern vernacular for magazine.

Perception is reality

The thing is, by that logic, a TEC-9 is a machine gun and an M1 Garand is an assault rifle, depending on someones definition or "perception" of the terms or weapons. What I'm saying is that in purely definitional terms, clips and magazines are different devices. Connotatively they are the same, but by definition (at least as I know them) they are not, just as those weapons are connotatively something to someone when they aren't to someone else.

Now without getting too deep into it and too technical, I understand appreciating that thee two terms are colloquially interchanged today, but just the same, it should be respected and understood that in a purely technical sense, they are different.