1956 Comic - by NRA - The Right Way

[RicInOR]

The Right Way With Guns: The National Rifle Association Comic Book From 1956 |

I draw your attention to "the CLIP"

 

[3MTA3]

Looks like the NRA is twisting facts one again to create fake news. Compare the diagram above to the correct one provided by ABCBS news.

 

[orygun]

I draw your attention to "the CLIP"

Yup. Read older books about guns and it's not an uncommon term. Clip meant a "clip in" type of magazine, as opposed to a tubular or non removable mag.

Now a days we see people getting their panties in a bunch when someone uses the term...

 

[Flopsweat]

Grandpa misused the term so I can too?

 

[Wombat of Doom]

Honestly, My grandpas era called them clips. And I still call my grandpa's Hi Power mags clips, just like he did. Mostly because that gun was pretty much a part of him. I have it now, but it is still his gun, clips and all.

Personally, I view it as a sign of being a pedantic person if one is condescending about terms when meaning is conveyed perfectly.

 

[The Heretic]

Grandpa misused the term so I can too?

NO!

ABSOLUTELY NOT!

DOING SO WOULD OFFEND MY SENSIBILITIES!

 

[MrMillspecer]

I would rather they call it what it is. I usually take it as lack of knowledge.

 

[Stomper]

Grandpa misused the term so I can too?

Just remember, (Dirty old man) Gramps probably also "misused" Grammy a time or two in their younger days. You didn't get here by the Stork!



BTW- the muzzle of a rifle isn't the ONLY end that can bite, I recall once knocking down a dude with the other end.

 

[DirectDrive]

Yup. Read older books about guns and it's not an uncommon term. Clip meant a "clip in" type of magazine, as opposed to a tubular or non removable mag.

Now a days we see people getting their panties in a bunch when someone uses the term...

That comic wasn't far removed (11 years) from WWII where the M1 and its clips helped win the war.
Probably anything that held cartridges was called a "clip" in those days.

Nowadays it's the "Mark of the n00b" to call a magazine a "clip".

 

[Stomper]

Clips go in your hair and make you look all pretty and such!

 

[orygun]

That comic wasn't far removed (11 years) from WWII where the M1 and its clips helped win the war.
Probably anything that held cartridges was called a "clip" in those days.

Nowadays it's the "Mark of the n00b" to call a magazine a "clip".

True, but my point of reference is older than that.
Philip B Sharpe The Rifle in America. Printed in 1938 with the Introduction written by Julian S. Hatcher. (some may have heard of him, but at the time he was an active Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army)

I think there's a lot of people who would be better off reading and learning than just regurgitating.

FYI, I call 'em a mag, too. The whole "clip" word started to get under my skin only after it became a media hype word.

 

[orygun]

Clips go in your hair and make you look all pretty and such!

I'd need hair first and they would never make me pretty.

 

[Stomper]

I'd need hair first and they would never make me pretty.

Hair is overrated anyway.

 

[DirectDrive]

I'd need hair first and they would never make me pretty.

Just get a Clip-On Man Bun.
Done and done.




"The recoil from this thing is loosening my Man Bun.
Boy, bring me some more clips !"

 

[orygun]

I hate "man buns" more than I hate any thing revolving around clips vs. magazines....

 

[Stomper]

The correct term these daze is "mun"



C'mon, get with it ya old farts!

 

[orygun]

If I type my version of the correct terminology for that wad of hair on a guy's head when held up like a woman wears, all that would show up is a full sentence of bubbleguming bubblegummers and their bubblegumming bubblegum. BUBBLEGUM!

 

[DirectDrive]

I hate "man buns" more than I hate any thing revolving around clips vs. magazines....

I have a friend who is about as anti Douche Knot as a guy could be.
But he does like gag gifts...I might buy him a clip-on Douche Knot for his birthday.

 

[Medic!]

As long as we both know what were talking about. Were communicating right?

 

[orygun]

I was sure hoping for something better than that! All that effort.. for naught.