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To: Kartographer

A lot of guys don’t know that back when the men were all WWII vets and Korean War vets and the young ones were fighting in Vietnam and everyone kept guns on display in the cabinet in their living rooms and hunting was common, we all just called
our magazines “clips”.


66 posted on 10/12/2023 7:56:48 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

A lot of guys don’t know that back when the men were all WWII vets and Korean War vets and the young ones were fighting in Vietnam and everyone kept guns on display in the cabinet in their living rooms and hunting was common, we all just called
our magazines “clips”


Yup. Guess that dates me


149 posted on 10/12/2023 9:06:37 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: ansel12
Due, perhaps, to the M 1 Garand’s use of en bloc clips to reload.
161 posted on 10/12/2023 9:23:27 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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