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Don’t Call a ‘Magazine’ a ‘Clip’: We Spoke With an Ex-SEAL About the Difference and Why It’s Important

Jan. 24, 2013 7:38pm Liz Klimas

Do you know the difference between this …

Difference Between a Guns Clip and Magazine

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… and this?

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One is a clip and one is a magazine. Yes, they are different, non-interchangeable terms. Although, do a quick search of recent news covering the gun control debate and you’ll see how often the term “clip” specifically is used incorrectly. Like here, here and here just to point out a few instances.

TheBlaze spoke with Brandon Webb, the president of SOFREP media and a former Navy SEAL, about the difference between these two firearm components and why it’s important to be clear with your terminology.

“It’s common for people to get the two mixed up,” Webb said. “If you hear someone talking about clips … you know they don’t know the difference.

“No one uses clips anymore.”

A clip describes cartridges held together with a strip until they are loaded into a firearm.

A magazine on the other hand is is a container that holds the cartridges. Sometimes magazines themselves are loaded with cartridges by clips. On most firearms a magazine is detachable and replaceable.

Or as Jan Libourel for Montgomery Citizens for a Safer Maryland explained in the “Handgunner’s Glossary“:

A [clip is a] device for holding cartridges together, usually to facilitate loading. Widely used as a synonym for “magazine” (although most firearm authorities consider this substandard usage). Technically, a magazine has a feeding spring, a clip does not.

This video is also very helpful showing off clips vs. magazines (and showing how magazines can be loaded by clips or a firearm directly loaded by a clip:

Even with the subtle differences though, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a clip as “a device to hold cartridges for charging the magazines of some rifles” and ”also : a magazine from which ammunition is fed into the chamber of a firearm.”

Still, Webb said it is like comparing apples to oranges. Although most people would know what you’re talking about if you use the term interchangeably, as this YouTube user put it,”many will judge you as someone who doesn’t know much about firearms if you call them ‘clips.’”

As Webb said, “if you are going to talk about guns, let’s know what we’re talking about.”

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Comments (179)

wellright
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 1:09am
Gumrock and indyguy’s additions reinforce the use of proper terminology.
Maji, I rarely get upset anymore. And if all you saw in my post was the clip/magazine part, you missed the whole point.try reading it again , and pay attention to all the words. Misusing clip and magazine is not going to end the world, or even cause much of an upheaval.
The point was not letting the progressives change the definition of terms to reshape the debate. Clip/magazine…Assault rifle/semi-auto…. Classic car/hot rod… words have meaning. And language is based on shared understanding of those meanings.
A Glock model 17, is not the same as a Colt Peacemaker. Both are sidearms , but with vastly different capabilities. Am I being petty to differentiate between them. well maybe so. That’s just how I am, I guess..So call me petty…

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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 1:16am
  Naw…You’re not petty…This is Petty….http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnYk4Hfzs_c
  
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- wellright
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 1:39am
  Indyguy—- thanks for a good bellylaugh..
  
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- BIG_G
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 1:58am
  Ol hickok45 is good.
  
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- old white guy
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:38am
  if you know that a clip holds ammo and a magazine holds ammo and you can slam one into a gun, then you know what you need to know. historically a magazine was the place where munitions of all sorts were stored.
  
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- ginger100
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:34am
  Progressive have already changed the debate, next we’ll be seeing kids disciplined for carrying bubble guns and paper guns to school. Doh!
  
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- rjtaurus605
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:57am
  You are not petty. MSR’s are not “assault weapons” clips are not mags, and black rifles are not evil. We could use Democrooks own words against them, and say they are “racist” for hating “black guns”!
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 10:36am
  @WreakAlotOfHavoc…..Yup…
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 12:00pm
  Hickok45 80+ yards out….PING PING PING on the gong!!
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 12:00pm
  This is what you must know:
  
  Someone should tell Sean Hannity.
  
  It is so.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 2:28pm
  What are you, a Jean Luc Picard clone? What’s this “it is so”? thing?
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 4:20pm
  @Anonymous
  
  He’s trying to create a style of posting associated with his handle. You’ll find no end of Leftists who do this, they think it creates an image of a sage, witty soul who comes down from the mountain to deliver wisdom to the unwashed masses. If you boil down his posts, he basically writes one sentence bumper sticker ad hominem and little else. He wants desperately to be perceived as “cool” by his leftist buddies though, so the act will continue on. Well, at least until he logs off that account and logs onto another one.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 4:45pm
  You know what else I’d like to see taken back? Stop calling sidearms “handguns”. Growing up we always called them sidearms, and I cannot for the life of me remember when precisely it switched over culturally. I mean maybe they were called handguns before I was born, but the preference until at least the mid 1980′s was sidearm. Maybe I just grew up in a weird place though, quite likely.
  
  I also wonder the same thing about police/peace officers. When did we start referring to them as Law Enforcement Officers precisely? I don’t recall that term in widespread use prior to the early 1990′s honestly.
  
  And, let’s stop calling every robber, murderer, rapist, terrorist and home invader a “gunman”. They are not. They are a robber, murderer, rapist, terrorist or home invader (aka burglar, another fine word that’s been replaced).
  
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- helluvagoodgod
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 5:54pm
  This is the dumbest damn story of all time. Who cares. Your country is burning in hell and this is important. March on Washington and tell these traitors that their finished and we will not yield to any government coward or elected official. This is my damn country not yours you socialist worm.
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:22pm
  Mr or Ms GHOSTOFJEFFERSON,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  So much for that no read list, eh Peter? That’s OK. It was a charade all along. Just another empty commitment from the faux intellect of the libertarian dream. So what was it about this post that brought you out of your Cher-like retirement to offer this latest ad hominem attack? Trying to impress your lemming-esque brethren here no doubt. Well, you know what Reagan said, “Nobody ever lost an election underestimating the ignorance of a conservative voter.”
  
  It is so very so.
  
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- LIBSALWAYSLIE
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:12am
  YOURSENSEI
  
  This is what you know: Very little
  
  This is what you think you know: Everything
  
  It is so.
  
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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 4:30pm
  Thank god.
  Someone who doesn’t say “clip”.
  Hollywood says clip, so everyone thinks it’s correct.
  Very few own a gun that uses clips, many own guns with magazines.
  
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whitealaskan
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 12:40am
Ive been reading some Tom Clancy books recently and he even calls them “clips” sometimes too. I thought that was strange that he would get that mixed up.

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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:34am
  I think the word “clip” is cultural. I am a baby boomer which means I watched movies and TV shows about the military. Clip was used because the military arms at that time mostly used clips and not magazines. Hollywood ingrained “clip” in to the language. Anyone using the clip in the Army is quickly and sometimes painfully made aware that a clip was not a magazine.
  
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wellright
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 11:48pm
The fact that we let the left set the parameters for these discussions, puts us behind the 8 ball from the “git-go”. The 2nd Amendment is not about hunting or self-protection, except as it pertains to protecting ourselves from tyrants. Every time a progressive (Dem or Rep) starts talking about hunting, and we let them, without correction, we lose control of the debate. We need to bring the correct terminology to these discussions. I was always taught that a “gun” is mounted on wheels or the deck of a ship. Anything you carry for personal use, is a rifle, a weapon, a piece, a firearm, a sidearm, a pistol etc. Way back when I was in boot camp, we caught hell if we called a rifle a gun. Shotgun is the only personal weapon that I can say comfortably using the term gun.
An assault rifle is a fully automatic, select fire weapon. Very specific. If we let them get away with mis-labeling everything the debate is lost before it’s begun.
It would be like calling a classic car a hot rod. Possibly, it could be converted into a hot rod, but without modification a 1953 Mercedes “Gullwing” is a classic car , but definitely not a “hot rod”.But if you let people continuously call it a hot rod, eventually the meaning of hot rod is lost. And that is why we need to define the terms of this debate properly.
It’s what the progressives do in almost every case. Change the meaning of words to change the debate. Learn the proper terms.

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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 11:58pm
  One more time… I clipped this from a magazine…http://www.thegunzone.com/clips-mags.html
  
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- Maji
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 12:14am
  If you get upset by the misnomer clip verses mag thing.
  You’re either petty or don’t know about guns and trying to impress people.
  
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- GumRock
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 12:36am
  hickok45 says it best…
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoSNHe413rY&list=UUvB3solmhqtgDeLpD-yTtfg&index=5
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 12:45am
  The author or SEaL claims, “…“No one uses clips anymore.”…”
  
  WRONG! Clips are still widely used by people who don’t have scopes/lights/dotsights/etc cluttering up the top of their rifles. Especially those who use AK, SKS, M-N, Mauser, Enfield, Garands, and some M15 style recievers. Not to mention, they’re an easy way to carry ammunition outside the box they come in rather than loose in a pocket. Bandoliers are available as well for carrying ‘your’ clipped ammo.
  
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- Jwmajic
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:51pm
  “An assault rifle is a fully automatic, select fire weapon” Your only half correct a B.A.R or Thompson sub machine gun is not an assault weapon even though they are full auto.
  A assault weapon is a High capacity, full auto , CARBINE. The key feature of an assault weapon is their size and full auto. Frankly I’d take a semi auto M-14 over a M-16 any day. I like accurate weapons and the short barreled .223′s just don’t have the range and stopping power of a good .308 long barrel rifle.
  Any one with skill is far more deadly with a bolt action rifle. Ever hear of a guy named Charles Whitman????
  
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- Jwmajic
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:58pm
  The US Army defines assault rifles as “short, compact, selective-fire weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power between submachinegun and rifle cartridges.”
  
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- Lt_Scrounge
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:38pm
  I use clips to load the magazines for my rifles. I even taught a buddy how to use stripper clips to load magazines faster than one round at a time. Before that he’d never seen a use for them. When I loaded a 30 round magazine in a matter of seconds using 15 round stripper clips, he was impressed. I also use clips to load the magazine on my WWI SMLE through the top of the receiver. It’s almost as fast as changing magazines.
  
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 11:25pm
I Use a clip.So Sue me.

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- MormonPiper
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 11:36pm
  then you are an 1di0t
  
  Do you call your car a bicycle too? Words mean something, only those not properly educated on a given topic will use incorrect terminology. Good thing your dr doesn’t all your heart a liver, eh?
  
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- Jive Mickey
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 11:50pm
  “No one uses clips anymore.”
  I guess he means that not many sport shooters actually use clips anymore, unless you own an M1 Garrand. I use 5 round strippers to load my M1As and ’03 Springfields. My Garrands take an 8 round clip. I load my AR-15 and M1A magazines with stripper clips and a loading tool. To flat out say that no one uses them is incorrect.
  
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- wellright
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 11:55pm
  Is the clip to load a magazine
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:24am
  Okay this clip vs magazine conspiracy theory has got to stop. Someone please contact Glenn so he can put his people on it. I am sure they can make a quick check with snopes.com to debunk the theory one way or the other.
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:42am
  I use stripper clips to load my magazines.
  
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- SONOFNANYE-HI
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 11:03am
  Ah.. the magazine verses clip debates. Was wondering when this would come up. Even though most of us that have been shooting all our lives understand the difference, we are not Magazine/Clip Nazis. We do understand the difference in the terms but simply do not care if someone else or even we misuse it since it makes no difference in the grand scheme of life. For those that call others idiots for the miss-use of the terms, I call these people Magazine Nuts ( I have one of those on my shot gun). Anyway I might be all for the change of the meaning of the term once high capacity “magazines” are outlawed. Then we can do what the libs do and change the meaning and rename them clips (or bananas for that matter) then we can again have more than 10 rounds in “whatever you wish to call them”.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 4:22pm
  Actually Mormon, I use clips as well. You do know the SKS uses clips, as does the M1 Garand and Enfield .303, right?
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 4:23pm
  @Dismayed Vetran
  
  What a coincidence! I take strippers out to the shooting range with me.
  
  Don’t tell the wife though.
  
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- Yazzle
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 11:47pm
  I am 57 years old and when I was 1 my dad put a 22 rifle under the tree for me. This 22 had a 10 round “clip” not a magazine. My dad fought in WW2 and I assume he knew the difference between a “magazine” and a “clip”. If I call it a clip today and you want to call me “stupid” you can go to hell!!!!
  
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sasquatch08
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:53pm
Why are the casings on those 7.62x54R cartridges dented/crimped that way? I’ve used a lot of milsurp ammo in that caliber and never seen that.

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- Jarhead 88
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 10:46pm
  That signifies that they are dummy rounds, inert.
  
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- Cicatrix76
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 10:46pm
  I believe they are dummy rounds. The crimped shoulders I believe is usually how they mark dummy rounds.
  
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- Cake
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 10:46pm
  Crimped cases are usually dummy rounds.
  
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- sasquatch08
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 5:54am
  Dummy rounds is pretty much what I figured, but then I thought maybe they had been run through a weapon I have never seen in real life before, like an RPK.
  
  Thanks guys!
  
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valiant1776
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:31pm
The Truth About Assault Weapons

http://www.assaultweapon.info/

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mcmeador
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:22pm
Ok, you explained the difference. Now why is it important? I, for one, already knew the difference and am annoyed with the misuse of the term “clip,” but why is it important in the current debate?

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- woodyee
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:42pm
  Basically, it’s about taking back control of the language, so that everyone understands and can talk on equal terms; sort of like making “gay” mean ‘happy” again…
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 10:04pm
  It’s important because those who know little about firearms (liberal politicians) want to dictate to us legal gun owners what terms we must abide by. Theses politicians are a bunch of wimps and expect the people to be ignorant and to blindly follow their agenda. The most useful weapon we have against these cowards is truth and logic.
  
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- r3dbull4dd1kt
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 11:23pm
  because literal terminology is required for proper legislation and litigation…Beck is making sure the Left correct themselves before they pass a ban–so they can properly prosecute people and make it stick
  
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- rabblechat
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:35am
  So if they ban high capacity clips, do I get to keep my 30 round magazines?
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:45am
  Mc
  
  I agree with woodeye. It is about regaining the narrative and forcing anti-gun advocates to speak the truth.
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:43pm
  Mr or Ms WOODYEE,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  You seem pretty happy to me.
  
  It is so.
  
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woodyee
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:22pm
Oracle12389 said -

“Here’s a thought how long after they ban guns do they ban hunting since it hurts the environment? I’m not giving up my guns so when I say cold dead hands it’s not a slogan.”

Excellent point. Here in California, we now have “lead-free” hunting zones, because environmentalists and State zoologists claim that the rare California Condor might eat lead fragments from the corpses of escaped game. A box of lead-free ammo in California costs upwards of $2.00 PER ROUND. The current lead-free zones encompass approx 1/10 the land mass of California (rough guesstimate). It’s not ridiculous to think that the Kalornicate State Communist Legislature will proclaim the entire state lead-free.

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- readyontheright
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 11:27am
  Keep an eye on Cal. It will be an interesting study to see how liberalism eventually will devour itself. All their laws and all their taxes. Working people bailing from Cal. left and right. Pretty soon they will have all of these laws on the books but no one to enforce them due to lack of revenue.
  
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freeme
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:07pm
” No one uses clips anymore.” Wait, there is still one person using clips, and just to be obstinate I am going to keep using them.

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- kettererbg
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:14pm
  I have to use clips in my M1 Garand. Eight shots is better than one at a time.
  
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- mgh999
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:31pm
  And when I have emptied my clips I still have 10 lbs of American hardwood and steel….
  
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- Bodacious_Boedi
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:35pm
  ….rrrrms…YEAH!! My Mosin-Nagant takes clips!
  
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- Lockpick
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 10:31pm
  I like to use clips with the Mosin as well. Saves on the fingers.
  
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- winin2012
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 10:37pm
  I have a clip I use in my ****.
  
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scrapadapolis
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:00pm
What do you mean noone uses clips anymore,I own an m-91 and have stripper clips for her.

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Dr.Fez
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:54pm
While yes, people need to learn the difference, I look as their ignorance of the terms beneficial to a degree. Imagine, they go to charge someone with possession of a banned object, and it falls flat, because they confuse the two. The law uses incorrect terms, which should make it all the easier to fight it.

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- sasquatch08
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 10:06pm
  Or all the easier for the law to make an M1A, SKS or similar rifle with a 10 round mag being fed by strips illegal.
  
  That’s a two edged sword there.
  
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captquest
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:22pm
OK, now someone explain the deference between double action and single action to Glenn.

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Mike Benton
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:19pm
And consider this: a six shot revolver is a “semi automatic” weapon. Every time you pull the trigger it shoots until it is empty.

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- 700P
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:47pm
  Nope,
  Not unless its a Webley-Fosbery or similar design. Semi-automatic implies self-loading aspect and asthe late Chuck Heston explained, the great-grand daddy of progressives, Teddy Roosevelt, hunted with semi-automatics.
  
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- eddvoss
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:58pm
  Not all revolvers will fire every time you pull the trigger. That only works with one that is double action, others are single action and the hammer must be cocked for each new shot.
  
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- donttreadonryan
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 2:28am
  Cant fault a guy if the only revolver he has contact with is double action. While he might be incorrect with the exact definition; right now he has a good point. If Diane was at the pistol range when I rapid fired a double action .38 and every poor guy with a “high capacity magazine ” glock got yelled at but I didn’t she would consider my revolver a semi auto due to absolute ignorance. Because how could a cowboy gun that looks less scary be dangerous… not trying to be a jerk but the guys point is the libs will stop at nothing.
  
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- Lt_Scrounge
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 12:04am
  Some of the twits in DC need to look at the video of Jerry Mikulek firing his revolver on YouTube. He can fire 6 shots, reload and fire 6 shots more in under 3 seconds TOTAL.
  
  Then these idiots think that you can jump a guy while he’s changing magazines just because that’s what happened with Jared Laughner in Tucson. Here’s a bit of information for those low information idiots who believe that. It only worked with Laughner because his gun was a Glock and he didn’t practice with it. Glocks have small magazine releases from the factory (bigger ones are available) and take practice to change magazines quickly, especially if you have short thumbs like I do. The 30 round magazine he had also slowed his magazine changes down because they tend to not drop free like the normal length ones. Had he been using 17 shot magazines like a Glock 17 uses, and practiced his magazine changes, the outcome would’ve most likely been more people dead not fewer. Then again there’s what’s commonly referred to as the Brooklyn Reload. It’s old school slang for simply pulling a second gun. If Laughner had been carrying a second handgun instead of not trying to reload the first one, he’d have been able to kill anyone trying to tackle him. The FBI learned the importance of carrying a backup during the 1984 Miami Shootout. One of the SWAT trained officers was killed after being left defenseless when his sidearm was hit by an incoming round.
  
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Uechi
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:06pm
How many times do we have to get the definition straight. It is excusable for dumb ass politicians and the media. They are all too stupid to find their own ass with a seeing eye dog, GPS and a map. No excuses for gun owners.

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FISH_BONE
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:03pm
Is that DougHuffman in the video?

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- Oath-keeper
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:10pm
  What is funny to me is I have been trying to tell all the idiots calling them clips they are wrong. Add that to the wrongfully used term assault rifle and it goes even further in helping all the progressives push their Tyrannical agenda. All of you so called firearm enthusiast should do your part to set record straight, further saying the 2nd amendment is for hunting and self defense NO it s not period. If we do not drive the proper narrative along with protesting, sending letters and e-mails to all representatives we honest Patriots will become criminals. Oathkerpers.org.. I will not comply will you?
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:10pm
  Hahahahaha. Could be, but this doesn’t appear to be an island back yard-
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:21pm
  I for one am glad Doug H is on our team. Just like to throw that out there.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:31pm
  Stelex
  Ditto, but old Doug has alluded to living on an actual island, wasn’t being my usual smart ass self…
  
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ORACLE12389
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 7:59pm
Hey Hickok45 finally got on the Blaze! This isn’t even up for debate because the people debating don’t even know what the hell they’re talking about since they can’t even get the proper names right. So it goes without saying that they didn’t read the “Shall not be infringed” part of the second amendment. Folks if it’s hand held and fires a round, cartridge, shell, and or bullet then we can own it. Rockets, grenades, flame, missiles, nukes, or any other explosive is not an arm, or gun. Thus I’d agree that if you want to buy an M203 or any new grenade launcher you would have to go through some red tape, silencers as well. But GTFO of my business when it comes to my guns, and if they fire semi or automatic. Yeah I want an automatic… a lot of them. Here’s a thought how long after they ban guns do they ban hunting since it hurts the environment? I’m not giving up my guns so when I say cold dead hands it’s not a slogan.

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- Yakov-Yurovsky
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 11:27pm
  Ya, Hickok45 is a great guy! When I first read the heading on this article I said to myself, Hickok45 was just talking about that yesterday-lol I was thinking about posting his youtube video on this issue but the Blaze beat me to the punch! lol
  
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- huntinwabbits
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:17am
  My first response: “I knew I’d see Hickok on the Blaze someday.”
  
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Bro Geo Too
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 7:59pm
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Man I’m envious of his backyard.

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TH30PH1LUS
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 7:57pm
Bless you, BLAZE.

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woodyee
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 7:56pm
Good article!
It is important for everyone to know what one is talking about, especially when it is related to inalienable Rights! One things the schools are doing is abusing our children while inducing hoplophobia. The Blaze can take a different, yet SORELY NEEDED tack…

I would like that the Blaze expound on a comment Jonathan Seidl made today, and that is an emphasis on firearm safety. Perhaps, for ‘X’ number of weeks during a pre-planned time-frame, the Blaze can present a basic firearm safety course, once a week, in the form of articles.The ‘course’ can be presented in 3 phases – Basic HOME firearm safety, Safety at home and on the field/streets, and the Blaze’s presentation of a modified NRA Eddie the Eagle, course, for parents for and with their kids. The Blaze can incorporate mini tests at the end of an article or ‘course’, and/or a survey featuring safety-related questions.

The Blaze has access to many resources in the form of props, photogs and experienced personnel, and I would encourage them to give this idea some consideration.
Thanks!!

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- Charles Curtis
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:09pm
  Woodyee!! You got it!
  
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- DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:14pm
  Very good idea!
  
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- Al J Zira
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:13pm
  This should be done in schools. You want to change the way people think about guns, get em young.
  
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- stopprintn
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 10:14pm
  Sheezits, when I grew up we could shoot at the local YMCA, yep, just sign in, get a taget and pepper the li’l sucker. When ya got tierd of that, shoot some pool or swim. Why do the lib;s make such a big deal out of nothing?
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 4:16pm
  Or one could sign up for the “Guns and Patriots” email newsletter. It has stories about a different gun in each newsletter, plus different gun-related stories in each.
  You can sign up here: http://www.humanevents.com/category/guns-patriots/
  
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Stelex
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 7:55pm
I will be more than willing to turn in all my 20 round clips, 30 round clips, 40 round clips, and my 76 round clips. My magazines ……. yeah, not so much. If I clip all my dogs paws is that illegal????? Progressives are so very, very stupid, lazy, ignorant, pathetic, controlling, losers. How the hell did we let them gain power. WTF

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- woodyee
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:01pm
  It’s guys like you that encourages the Left with all the compliments! Haven’t you ever noticed how they elevate their failures?
  
  Sheesh, some people…
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:05pm
  Lil Keatie
  Why are you here when you should be researching torts and how to sue a community college?
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:12pm
  Sorry, I forgot thats what they strive for.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:18pm
  @ Stelex – LOL!
  
  Don’t give the trolls the time of day – unless of course, it’s their time to expire…Hehe!
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:45pm
  Mr or Ms STELEX,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  You didn’t “let” us gain power. We took it. And we’re keeping it.
  
  It is so.
  
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- Lt_Scrounge
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:50pm
  I have a bunch of 15 round clips. I use them to reload my 30 round magazines, and very quickly I might add. LOL
  
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aproudinfidel
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 7:55pm
Only people that have no business touching a firearm think the two are the same.

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Keatonc333
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 7:53pm
So for the sake of compromise I’d like to float this idea by my right wing colleagues… (you guys!) As far as gun control. I say you keep your semi automatic weapons, ARs, full magazines or clips or whatever. no limit. and in return I ask for mandatory background checks and mental health screenings on all gun purchases, internet, gun show etc. all guns must be registered, Anyone wanting to purchase a gun must pass a safety course, Harsher punishments for illegal gun ownership, and the repeal of the Tiahrt amendment, which pretty much castrated the ATF. So… what do you say? deal?

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- DLV
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 7:59pm
  Well I would if there were was some guarantee that the government would not take away guns. But the government never just “stops” now do they? I assume this is a hypothetical situation where you are the president or something?
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:02pm
  Soon as my progressive colleagues stop killing 800,000 babies a year. Its for the children ya know. 60,000 sperm and your the one that got through, god does have a sense of humor. Shout out to Dave M for that one.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:07pm
  DLV… ya i’m president in this situation.
  and stelex… that was funny. touche sir.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:10pm
  however you are out of your mind if you think only liberals get abortions.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:13pm
  How would a background check stop Laughner, Holmes or the idiot in Sandy Hook? All of them had no criminal background, and they refused to sell to the Sandy Hook shooter, he stole the weapons. As Judge Peiro and many other law enforcement has said, in their life of police work, they only took one lawfully registered weapon off a criminal.
  
  The problem is only the law abiding follow the law. And with less than 1% of all crime committed with an assault weapon, how is taking mine going to stop crime? It just makes me defenseless.
  
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- M13
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:17pm
  Registration leads to confiscation Keaton that’s why I will not register my firearms.
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:17pm
  Shall not be infringed… This mean’s you idiot ALL gun laws are illegal. There is no such thing as an illegal gun or gun owner. The government has NO RIGHT to know who has a gun or what kind of gun…
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:17pm
  Agreed Keaton, but your side promotes it and wants to pay for it on my dime, personally I think it is up to the individual, but not on my dime. Then they can sort it out with the big guy if he exists.
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:20pm
  No more compromising my freedom’s and liberty’s…….
  
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- rig_jumpr
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:21pm
  Nice idea but, I for one don’t think the progressive left will stop there. Not paranoid, I just have a distrust of an administration that goes unchecked and unchallenged of their motives.
  Molon Labe!
  
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- M13
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:05pm
  Keaton , you are a liar the Tiahart Amendment does not castrate the ATF . Leave it to an idiot to spout the talking stupidity of Mayor Doombergs. Mayors against the 2nd amendment movement.
  
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- lemkete
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 11:16pm
  Are you talking about the same ATF that illegally smuggled guns to Mexico? You want them to oversee the law abiding gun owners?
  
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- Shoot2Stop
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 4:32am
  Compromise is the heart of successful negotiation, but only when the unintended consequences are not injurious to those doing the compromising. Mandatory firearms registration or licensing is one compromise proven time and again to be injurious, many times to the point of death, to those accepting the compromise.
  
  As a life long gun owner, I too would like to keep all dangerous tools and implements from the hands of crazies, criminals, and incompetents. These dangerous devices would not only include firearms, but encompass all manner of potentially harmful items or activities.
  
  KEATONC333, I will see your suggested compromise – and raise you one of mine.
  
  All adults, whether or not they wish to own or operate a gun, automobile, knife, or other object deemed dangerous, will be required to pass a background check, mental health screening, automobile safety, knife, fire extinguisher, and firearms safety courses. If they FAIL any aspect of these requirements they will be required to carry a special ID card, or implanted chip, indicating what item(s) they are prohibited from obtaining, or using. This would be considered a ‘reverse’ permit or license. Only those prohibited would be listed in a government database. Failure to inform a seller of ones prohibited status would garner a multi-year prison sentence for the first offence, and life or death for the second.
  
  If you expect me to me to jump through bureaucratic hoops, would it not be fair that you do the
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:26am
  No. No deal. Now sit down, shut up, and if we want your opinion, we’ll give it to you.
  
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- 1stKENTUCKYREGULAR
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 10:06am
  And who would provide the mental heath screenings?
  
  The progressive/liberal elitists.
  
  Any questions?
  
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- Techcon
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 12:01pm
  @ CATATONIC666
  
  You forgot to add the $15,000/year “***** TAX” for the OPEN SEASON, COME KILL ME weaklings who shun personal responsibility and chose NOT to own a gun thereby ENABLING the criminal class. That’s a NON-NEGOTIABLE part of the deal. Oh, and everyone paying the tax MUST have their names published in ALL local newspapers WEEKLY.
  
  What? You’re NOT going to dial 911 when home invaders break down your door. Cleaning up YOUR body will be quite expensive.
  
  Oh, you don’t have to worry about that—don’t live among the so-called, “little people”? How cute! Will I can assure you, when you FINALLY move out of your Mom’s basement, you will!
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 4:55pm
  No deal. The government would be the one implementing those, and that would make it a pre-emption on a right, which is unconstitutional. For example, a poll tax or a literacy test to vote has been struck down by SCOTUS as such. You want something like that and you’ll get the SCOTUS reaming you deserve.
  
  Question though, did you come up with those ideas on your own, or did they come from the neo-Nazi sites that you use to bolster your political opinions?
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:30pm
  worth a shot
  
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PK_SEA
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 7:47pm
My M1 Garand is not amused.

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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 7:46pm
My M1 uses a clip, my AR uses a magazine. Now let me tell you the difference between my rifle and my gun…….

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- Xiccarph
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 12:57pm
  Oh, nice M855 penetrator rounds. Too many mix up clip vs magazine. It always irritates me when talk show hosts defending firearms and bragging about what they own, refer to mags as clips. The media reinforces the misnaming.
  Oh well.
  
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- Xiccarph
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 1:07pm
  LOL!!! The recruit keeps referring to his rifle as his gun . The D.I. decides to let him remember.
  
  Ideally a cold rainy night on base. You hear the recruit yelling all night long, running in a loop by the barracks, in full pack, lifting his issue rifle above his head with one hand….and similarly his other hand keeps moving back and forth to a spot on his body during his chant…”This is my rifle, this is my gun! This is for killing, this is for fun!”. Reckon most here can imagine the correct picture….
  
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DeVain
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 7:43pm
As Webb said, “if you are going to talk about guns, let’s know what we’re talking about.”

Nice idea, too bad the gun grabbers are ignorant.

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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 7:57pm
  They start grabbing my gun, they better buy me a drink first.
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:13pm
  You slut Darmok
  
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- DEFCON4
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:16pm
  @Devain,It’s called “Gun-o-Phobia” =*It’s the morbid or irrational fear of weapons *
  You may never want to own a gun; many do not; but, you owe it to yourself
  to understand the ‘subject’. And, do not be, simply ruled by your, and some
  others, ‘uneducated fears’.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:25pm
  Stelex:
  I prefer Man-whore, a slut would but you the drink.
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:34pm
  Duly noted, man whore ;-)
  
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- flipper1073
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:47am
  DARMOK
  Most if not ALL Gun grabbers are Ugly Liberals
  (Feinstein, Pelosi, Hillary an the list goes on)
  I wouln’t want any of them any where near my Gun.
  or My Weapon either.
  
  But most Conservative Women (Malkin,the girls on FOX an that
  cutie on Hanity can grab my gun anytime.
  Just Don’t touch My Weapon without Premission.
  
  Silly Rabbit CLIPS are for ****.
  Mags are for Guns
  (Sorry Weapons)
  
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