Clip?
A defense to the magazine police...
In the Army, we had a ‘magazine’ for the M-16....I think it held 20 rounds.
Then, we also had some 30 round magazines, I think bought ‘on the economy’, and not through the normal government supply system. We called these ‘banana clips’.
I am well aware of what a clip is...and its persistent use by the media is annoying. In fact, it displays to me that the ‘gun culture’ they bemoan is born in Hollywood, where the term is often used, and not by true gun enthusiasts.
However, I will confess to using the term ‘clip’ from time to time. Maybe my mind has been polluted by the movies. Or it may be that we had those ‘banana clips’ in the Army.
Its kind of like the term pencil ‘lead’....we all know it isn’t really lead; but, at some point the usage becomes common, and we don’t even care.