Sorry - I’m being a wanker. Throw a couple of hard returns into a long-ish post like that and you’re good. 
(TL: DR = Too Long/Lame, Didn’t Read.)
I do think the “garand clang” = doom for the shooter thing is a myth. Both for the reasons already presented and that no effort ever made during production to muffle the clang. By contrast for the problem with the rear sights was reckonized and fixed in the course of production (although the first fix caused it’s own problems which weren’t solved until after WWII).
Someone claimed it happened though that he was basically on a one on one dual with a hidden soldier in the early days of Vietnam. He fired seven times and threw an empty clip in the air. The enemy came out of hiding and charged and got bullet #8 in his brain.
Still that was probably an exception. If I were being shot at I’d probably be thinking more about shooting back or hiding as opposed to theatrics. I just a few minutes tossing empty Garand clips at my rifle while holding it. Trying to hold the rifle in ready postion while bouncing a clip off it (to make it clang, which didn’t sound exactly like when a clip was ejected but was probably close enough) and having it bounce in about the right direction was doable but not easy. If you’ve never held one, a Garand is long and heavy.
Ah, I see, ignorance fought. Thanks
And when I started here I got shit for my too-short paragraphs. “One sentence is not a paragraph,” people would say, so I started writing longer paragraphs, though they were still one sentence; one long, convoluted, over-punctuated, eventually incoherent sentence that I had even lost track of near the two-thirds mark; a sentence with more than a paragraph’s words but none of its meaning, as far as anyone could tell; a sentence more in keeping with the works of Bulwer-Lytton than that misnamed contest, which instead rewards jokes with zingers on the end like miniature O. Henry stories (sorry, Boyo Jim) rather than continue the tradition of its namesake, a man who stood above the masses of bad 19th-century authors by virtue of being merely pretty awful.
Oh, that was two sentences, wasn’t it. I’m losing my touch.
Klaatu I sincerely appreciate your OP. I had no idea there was a distinction between a magazine and a clip. Now I know. Ignorance fought.
For the record, I’m anti gun.
That guy in Aurora sure made it clear what a movie clip is.
Of course not. But if you drive by a bar and the sign says, “Beer and Billiards”, if you don’t want to be laughed at, don’t go in and ask for a fuckin’ glass of billiards.
Dictionaries just report errors these days, thereby reinforcing them.
Funny (sort of) scenario. Crazed gunman walks into mall, starts shooting, runs out of bullets. A shopper screams at a armed security guard, “He’s putting in a new clip!” Armed security guard yells back " As long as it’s not a new magazine, we’ll be okay! Wow, I guess you’re right, ignorance about this two words is dangerous huh?
So, does “anal retentive” have a hyphen or not?