A teacher at Meridian Middle School found a gun clip with live rounds at 8:40 a.m. Wednesday at the school...I know use of that term for "magazine" is considered heresy in most gun circles.
I don't get too bent out of shape because no less an authority than the late Col. David Hackworth used "clip" on occasion.
I leave it to someone else to insist he was wrong.
As to the title-linked story itself, well, Wayne and I have both had our say about guns in schools and can't come to an agreement.
[Via Avg Joe]
3 comments:
OK, I’ll be the one to call the Col. wrong… This topic is likely my largest pet peeve. A clip is used to feed ammunition to a magazine. I realize that the term “clip” is become synonymous with “magazine”, but it is technically incorrect. Would a reporter, writing about a jewelry store being robbed, write something like “… and $10,000 worth of Bling was reported stolen..”? I will not hesitate to politely correct and educate any shooter that I hear utter the word “clip”. Most actually thank me afterwards as they have not yet entered the world of military surplus rifles where stripper clips and en bloc clips are commonly used.
Sorry for the rant, everyone has at least one thing that sets them off like nails on a chalkboard, and this one is mine. I also realize that my efforts to preserve proper terminology are futile as some manufacturers have taken to calling their magazines “clips”.
Clips/magazines
Stocks/grips
Rounds/bullets
Dumbing-down of the English language infects us all. I'm not going to criticize anyone. I'll just do the best I can with the limited intellect I've got.
Ya' gotta' remember, the good Col. probably learned about 'clips' when they WERE clips, and went into M1 Garand rifles.
Sometimes people slip into old habits, but it doesn't excuse the newer generations who have little-to-none experience with the M1, and certainly not with a rifle or Drill Instructor screaming in your face about it. People learning on M-16 rifles have no excuse for calling a magazine a clip.
I wonder when was the last time the US Army sent anyone to basic rifle training using the M1 Garand?
Language is the means to get a message across, standardization is so people can understand each other speaking the same language. Was he successful in getting his message understood?
The Col gets a pass, which younger folks do not (unless they too somehow learned about shooting on an M1 Garand, and had it drilled into their head).
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