Concerning firearms: What is the difference between a "Clip" and a "Magazine"?

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Clips - feed from the top. (US Navy M1)

Magazines - feed mainly from the bottom or sometimes from the side (British Stirling, 9mm, sub machine gun)
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r 30 years in the military
Army Vietnam Small arms expert, expert Marksman
Then jjoined navy , Small arms expert and expert marks man

Answer 1

A clip is something you put in your hair and a magazine is something you read..LOL.

Magazine is what holds your ammo and the clip keeps the hair out your eyes.

Answer 2

Clip Magazine Difference

Answer 3

Certainly the American press, surrounded by gun afficianados, should know the difference but they always get it wrong. A Clip, is used to either hold the ammo into a magazine well, as in the case of the M-1 Garands enbloc clip or the Mannilicher action enbloc clip, or it is a device to hold the cartridges together long enough to enable the cartridges to be loaded into a magazine. These are referred to as Stripper clips, as used in the Mauser type rifles and pistols and Enfield rifles. The AR/M-16 has clips which are used to reload detachable magazines. Magazines can either be a recess built into the firearm, usually with a spring and a follower, or the magazine can be a detachable or semi detachable magazine with the spring and follower built in. Single shots do not have either, cartridges are loaded directly into the chamber. Top or bottom functioning? Well as a matter of fact the Mannicher enbloc clip was designed to fall out of the "bottom" of the magazine well after the last cartridges is fired. That's one of the reasons why the Mannlicher system was not liked by the military..needless waste of expensive CLIPS, lost after firing. also it could not be topped of after firing one or more cartridges (one of the biggest critiques of the GARAND, by the way...many useless rounds were fired off by GI's just to be able to reload a fresh 8 rounds into the gun before they needed to)

Answer 4

Pain is a physical feeling, like when you break a bone, or get a toothache, or when you go into labor to have a child, even your stomach, when you get hunger pains. This is all connected to your nerves, which act as sensors and send messages to your brain, and you have the physical reaction. Suffering is similar, but not the same thing. Say you have a toothache, that's the pain part of it, but the suffering would come when you can't go to the dentist to have it fixed, and you have to suffer with the pain, and possibly the infection. There are other levels of suffering as well, like when you lose someone you loved very much, the pain of that loss causes your heart to endure this, and it can take a long time to heal, or never heal at all. Suffering happens over a long period of time, or what can seem to be an eternity. Hope this helps, good luck.

Answer 5

Simply answered..........
A 'clip' is a feeding device used to load ammo into a weapon's magazine, either into the magazine well in the weapon itself, or a separate detachable device. A clip has no moving parts. The SKS and AK variants use a single-piece, spring steel "clip". An M-1 Garand rifle is loaded with a clip that remains in the rifle magazine, and is ejected with the firing of the last round in the clip. (Excellent examples: Band of Brothers or Saving Private Ryan.)
A 'magazine', whether a space in the receiver of the weapon,or a separate feeding device, HAS moving parts, and is loaded with ammunition by hand, either one round at a a time, or in multiples from 'stripper' clips.

Answer 6

The magazine is the actual ammunition feeding device, a clip just holds cartridges together to facilitate loading into the magazine. A magazine can be fixed or detachable, and generally feeds cartridges into the action by use of a spring.

Answer 7

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Concerning firearms: What is the difference between a "Clip" and a "Magazine"?

Answer 8

Cerberusacp is correct as far as he went. But he failed to mention that clips are used to fill magazines.

And magazines may be detachable, such as the magazine for a Colt M-1911 pistol, or fixed such as the magazines on most Lever-Action Rifles, most bolt-action rifles, and the M-1 Garand. In pistols, the Mauser C-96 and a few other early automatic and semi-automatic pistols used fixed magazines and stripper clips.

FWIW, all my life, I've heard folks use clip and magazine interchangeably. It grates on my nerves, but I can't get most folks to stop doing it.

Doc

Answer 9

A clip feeds a magazine and the magazine feeds the Gun

Answer 10

A clip can be disposable. Stripper clips, the box clip for an M1 Garand. Magazines are intended to be reused. Clips can be reused, but disposal was expected in their design. So they are fairly simple, and cheap. A handgun uses a magazine.