Fucking sweet fucking Og you media morons and some of you here need to understand the fucking difference. It’s not a clip, it’s not a fucking “magazine clip” :rolleyes: it’s a fucking MAGAZINE!
To my fellow gun people, apologies I am trying to make this simple for those here that know nothing(no offense) about guns.
A primer on magazines and clips:
To get right to it, the "Eeevil “Assault Weapons” like the semi-automatic AR15 have what is called a detachable box magazine. You all know what they look like. This is a removable unit and it has a spring at the bottom. The spring allows the next round to pop up into the chamber after a round is fired. After the last round is fired a button or lever allows the mag to be removed for reloading.
Generally they are reloaded by hand. You pick up rounds and press them into the magazine one by one until all 30 rounds, I mean 7 are loaded. And it gets harder and harder to press them in the fuller it gets.
Then you pop the mag back into the rifle. Most semi-auto pistols also work like this. There is a handy thing called a stripper clip that allows more rapid reloading to magazines like that and can only be used when the mag is detached from the weapon. It is basically a unit that holds rounds and you can slide it into the mag and pull it out. It strips the rounds into the mag all at once. Just easier than doing it by hand.
Now to the “clip”
Many rifles (and shotguns) have internal magazines. You don’t pop it out and reload it. They load the same way. You press rounds into them like the detachable ones and some load from the top of the rifle and some from the bottom.
Although rifles used it before, to me, the classic rifle that used a clip was the M1 Garand, the standard US battle rifle in WW2. It used an 8 round CLIP. Inserted from the top of the rifle, the clip allowed 8 rounds at once to be inserted into the magazine instead of trying to jam each one in by hand. Pretty cool for an infantryman. It was a steel strip that held the rounds and once you loaded it into the rifle it stayed in the magazine until empty and then ejected with a distinctive metallic “ping” sound.
Don’t know if it’s an urban legend that the M1 ping let the enemy know they were empty.
I heard that one one the new psych tests used to determine who will be permitted to own a gun is whether or not a person rages about morons who don’t know the difference between a mag and a clip.
I just think journalists on both sides sound like fucking morons when they are uninformed about what they are reporting. Would you want to sound like a dumbass if you were doing an investigative report?
Regardless of my views on guns, the reporters should have their basic shit straight.
See, if I was listening to you guys on the news, I would immediately dismiss you as uninformed and pay no attention. That is not a good way to promote your message, whatever it may be.
Now let’s argue over whether the plane “crashed” or made an “excessively, extremely hard, emergency landing.” However you phrase it the same number of people are dead.
It’s cheaper hiring a generic dumbass who has no understanding of what they are reporting on than to hire specialists. And it’s easier for the reporter to just copy some public relations department’s press release than it is to do actual research. So the combination of American hypercapitalism and human laziness means you tend to get reporters who don’t really understand what they are talking about and just parrot whatever bit of propaganda they’ve been handed last.
Well, I was mainly talking about the media, but it pisses me off that some liberal dopers just jump when it comes to the guns they want to ban. They don’t the difference from a bolt action .22 to a mossberg pump gun, its just ban em all.
Yeah but so what. The OP is trying to make the claim that because certain dopers don’t know the technical name to certain parts of a gun that they somehow shouldn’t be able to argue against gun ownership. It’s ridiculous. And certainly not pit worthy, IMO.
Er, the OP was just making the fucking claim that many in the media, and some here, do not know a goddamn thing about how guns work. And that lack of knowledge can be dangerous, hell about anything not just guns, when considering what to ban.
Come on Jain, you know where i am coming from. You can’t just be afraid of something and want to ban it, if you don’t know shit about it.
And it gets harder and harder to press them in the fuller it gets.