magazine pouches US sun-machine guns

[Malygris]

I've seen fellas all but eviscerated on forums for using the word 'clip' for a magazine. Seems like some gun guys think that sarcastic remarks will help the less knowledgeable, I dunno. I'm not referring to anyone on this forum, but from other forums I've been on.

But, when I saw this thread, I got curious to see if it could be just possible to use the two interchangeably. Oddly enough, Webster's seems to corroborate that:

"a device to hold cartridges for charging the magazines of some rifles; also : a magazine from which ammunition is fed into the chamber of a firearm"

You see where it says 'Also: a magazine from which ammunition is fed....'?

That tells me that 'clip' is also a 'magazine' and probably vice versa. Prior to this when I saw someone, a newbie, refer to his Luger's 'clip' or his 1911's 'clip', in my mind I always said 'It's actually a magazine dude, a clip is for feeding fixed magazines, they're called 'stripper clips', yada yada. Now I'm not so sure. If, according to Webster, a clip is 'a magazine from which ammunition is fed', then there are lots of guys out there that need to tone it down a bit when a newbie calls it a clip rather than a magazine.

But for me, I'll still think of clips as strippers and Enblocs, and magazines as an assembly with at least the four parts: a box, a spring, a follower and a floor plate.