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Originally Posted by gweeks
A magazine has a spring in it that delivers the ammunition to the feed for the chamber. A clip simply holds the ammunition so it can be loaded into the receiver or magazine. A clip may be either discarded at the time the receiver is loaded or after after it has been fired. Discarded doesn't mean thrown away. Most clips are reusable. Discarded means removed from the firearm. The M-1 Garand is a classic rifle that uses a clip that discards after the ammunition has been fired. Most modern firearms use a magazine. The M-16 is strange in that it uses a magazine, but the ammunition comes in a clip to allow easy loading into the magazine.
Greg Weeks
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A tad off topic!
Love the "Ping" the clip makes as it ejects. Own a M1 garand plus a M1A and people do get the term Clip vs.magazine for rifles and handguns mixed up all of the time. The movies and some writers do not help with the mix up at all.
