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- From: hes@unity.ncsu.edu (Henry E. Schaffer)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Clips are not magazines
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.165930.5213@ncsu.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 04:15:35 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: North Carolina State University
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- In article <1993Jan27.033809.11574@bbxrbk> bbx!bbxrbk!russ@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Russ Kepler) writes:
- #In article <1993Jan26.102654.4647@megatek.com> cjp@megatek.com (Chris "Systems Stud" Pikus) writes:
- ###From article <ATAYLOR.93Jan25172736@gauss.nmsu.edu>, by ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy):
- ###
- ### Clips are pieces of metal which do not enclose or completely
- ### surround cartridges.
- ##
- ## A rule of thumb: "If it has a spring, it's a magazine."
- #
- #Further, if it *is* a spring, it's a clip.
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- Don't the U.S. military stripper clips for both 5.56 NATO and 7.62 NATO have
- springs in them?
-
- --henry schaffer
-
- [MODERATOR: Yup! :-) ]
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