Wednesday, January 19, 2011

One more time

We're going to go over this one more time. All you clueless journalists out there, pay attention.

This is a 30-round clip.


It's useless without a magazine. Clips load magazines. Magazines feed firearms.

Hat tip, Say Uncle.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

just have to ask this always some one nit picking - what did the enblanc clip fit into? wish I remembered my m1 nomenclature better.

Now that I have picked my nits have a good one.

Pawpaw said...

As long as we're picking nits. The en bloc clip of the US Rifle M1 fit into the fixed magazine of the rifle. The M1 wasn't the first rifle to use this design, but it was arguably the most successful. From Wikipedia: Other rifles utilizing a frequently improved en-bloc clip include the German 1888 Commission Rifle, the French 1890 Berthier Cavalry Carbine and later models (upgraded to 5 rounds in 1916), the Italian M1870/87 Vetterli-Vitali and M91 Carcano, the various (Romanian, Dutch, Portuguese) turnbolt Mannlichers, the Austro-Hungarian straight-pull Steyr-Mannlicher M1895, the M1895 Lee Navy, the Hungarian 35M Mannlicher, and the US M1 Garand.

Anonymous said...

Paw Paw, trying to teach "news journalists" anything about firearms nomenclature is just about as worthwhile as trying to teach a feral hog the History of The English Speaking Peoples.

I've encountered several news journalists in my time, and to a man they already had their narratives worked out long before they talked to any of the actual participants. Now, I know that anecdote does not equal datum, but long ago I learned the old maxim that once could be happenstance, twice might be coincidence, but the third and all consequent events of the same nature are enemy action. News journalists are the enemy.

Gerry N.