I wish that a gun writer would be more technically correct but it is not a fatal misstatement. A magazine is commonly called a clip and everyone knows what is being talked about. Anyone who corrects the speaker is being THAT guy and at a gun range runs the risk of being chased down range to become the target.
Anyone who uses clip for magazine at our gun range has their stripes ripped from their dress blues, then their sword broken in half, then marched out the gate while the band plays “Branded”.
Lunacy, sheer lunacy.
That boy’s elevator doesn’t go to the top floor!!