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!!
Lunacy, sheer lunacy.
Better leave all your Marlins, Winchesters, Remingtons, Mossbergs, etc. in the car trunk, then - especially if they're of '60s-'70s vintage. It is well known that most of the sporting firearms manufacturers during that period used the word "clip" in their advertising copy, mostly to distinguish integral/tubular magazine models from the detachable/box magazine variants.
The fixation on "correct usage" of the words "clip" and "magazine" began with the expansion of interest in milsurp rifles and really gathered steam after Al Gore invented the internet.
Personally, I don't see enough of a controversy to get all wrapped around the axle.