Yeah, and another question might be involved in the statement "...so he pulled out the gun’s clip..."
Might be too fine a point, but I believe that we're talking magazine here not a clip.
The staff of the local McAllen Monitor are pretty much all left wing progressives that support the LGBT sector and are really down on guns. They report semi-automatic weapons as “automatic” and “machine guns”.
However, they did provide full coverage of the “Naked Bike Ride”, where the organizer rode in woman’s garter belt and stockings.