… not a fucking clip!
I’m reading Desperate Times by Nicholas Antinozzi. It was free on amazon as of yesterday. It’s not a bad “end of the world” story, although it is unrealistic in some (many) places.
But M16 rifles and modern autoloading pistols feed from magazines, not clips.
Dipshit!
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I’ve gotten to the point of saying, “Let it go.”
Language changes over time, and it’s now been so referred to as a ‘clip’ that everybody knows what’s meant. We’ve got other things to make noise about, such as what’s happening to our country.
You’re absolutely correct. I try to ignore it, but it bugs the shit out of me. I must have OCD or something. 🙂
Today we test your knowledge of gun lore and literature, you grumpy bastards! Identify the author of this piece of applicable doggerel, or be forever known as uncultured prunes:
*ahem*
“The bullet is part of the cartridge
The cartridge goes into the breech;
As you take pains with your rifle
Take equal pains with your speech1”
No Googling!!!
Uncultured prune, you say. Well, I guess I am that and more. The quote is very familiar, but I haven’t a clue who said it.
Jeff Cooper. I thought it would add to your scholarly lecture.
Really? I thought of Col. Cooper, but dismissed him as a possibility. Not sure why, but in my mind I thought it unlikely that he would have said it. Thank you for educating me otherwise.
Clips feed magazines, magazines feed firearms. The miscue comes from the M1 Garand, which used en-bloc clips in it’s magazine…but the clip still fed the magazine. One of my pet peeves, too.