I'll only be pedantic about them rarely being forged (mostly stamped) and definitely still having problems of overheating. Try firing one on full auto for more than one clip - better have gloves...
They are great weapons though. I've never cleaned mine or had a jam. I hope this database is that good!
Actually, the words are interchangeable. You've heard of "Banana Clip" I'm sure. Clip is just slang for magazines, but the short word is for some reason associated with small magazines. The manuals all call them magazines - rifles or pistols.
To any firearms enthusiast, hearing clip and magazine being confused is like hearing nails on a chalk board. Imagine someone at your work insisting that Java and Javascript are the same language.
"Imagine someone at your work insisting that Java and Javascript are the same language."
This is a rather poor analogy. Someone confusing Java and Javascript might believe they can paste their Javascript code into a Java program and have it work. Nothing of this nature will result from confusing clips and magazines. A shooter isn't going to expect to be able to use their Mosin-Nagant clips with their PSL, any more than they would expect for the PSL magazines to be valid replacements for their Winchester 1895 magazines.
It is incorrect, but it's not all that bad. 95% of the time, it is clear from context; the remaining cases primarily concern weapons with a fixed magazine, for which the user probably does know the difference.
No true Scotsman... Really - this is a matter of taste (what slang you prefer). As a former arms dealer / in a family of government weapons contractors and servicemen, we all use "clip" as slang.
Really? I am in the Canadian Forces infantry, and if anyone ever used the term "clip" in reference to a magazine, and was actually serious, I'm pretty sure they would get beat up. May I ask what country you are affiliated with and in what branch of the military those servicemen are? It is interesting to see such a basic difference in terminology.
USAF and small weapons / ammo manufactures. You're right - military nomenclature (US) uses very precise (and verbose) terminology: "magazine" is always used strictly. Though the words "gun" and "rifle" are dropped in favor of "weapon" in some cases. What I find is that the longer you're out, the more the language becomes civilian - unless you're a hardcore / die-hard kind of person.
My understanding of it (and wikipedia seems to back me up) is that the term 'clip' when used properly refers to the device used to assist in loading a magazine.
For example, you use a clip to load ammunition into the (internal) magazine of an M1, and you could use a clip to load ammunition into a "banana clip", which actually refers to a style of magazine.
You're referring to "stripper clips" that were invented before guns had removable springed magazines. Those are a type of clip (and lead to the term), however the slang term clip doesn't refer to pistol magazines - it's merely slang for a magazine. It's a common misconception and what I was responding to.
In fact, the internal pistol magazine of a C96 pistol is still a magazine, but it loaded by a stripper clip, and some guns like the Japanese Type 3 are fed directly from stripper type clips - but those aren't "speedloaders" as the article suggests.(To juxtapose the concepts completely...)
I'm refering to the wikipedia article on ammunition clips in general: "A clip is a device that is used to store multiple rounds of ammunition together as a unit, ready for insertion into the magazine or cylinder of a firearm. This speeds up the process of loading and reloading the firearm as several rounds can be loaded at once, rather than one round being loaded at a time."
All I'm saying is "clip" doesn't mean "magazine for a pistol" - which is the misconception. Clip, as used commonly in slang, is for any magazine. Rarely would one refer to stripper clips as just "clips" - usually it's "stripper" or "strip" to avoid confusion.
Well, few people own true AK47's, most own copies of the Russian AKM which is made from stamped parts (as opposed to machined on the true AK47 [1]. I own a semi-auto Romanian WASR 10 - which is very common in the US (PA). They go for ~$300 at a sporting goods store.
It's a lot of fun to shoot, the AK is cheap reliable, historical and can be used for fun, hunting (yes) and in survival situations. I actually do a "StartupGuns" [2] event in Pittsburgh where a bunch of us go shooting like OpenCoffee or similar.
They are great weapons though. I've never cleaned mine or had a jam. I hope this database is that good!