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I was reading a novel and rolled my eyes when the author described ammo crates of "clips" for Uzis. While I can understand some terminology sticking around because it only ceased making logical sense a few years ago, how the heck is "clip" still commonly and mistakenly used to refer to a magazine? I thought clips went the way of the dodo in the 60's and it seems as if people should have stopped using the term by now for the same reason no one uses "carburetor" as an example of a car part. Because anything using them is an antique, and anyone who used them in combat is in a retirement home.

I was reading a novel and rolled my eyes when the author described ammo crates of "clips" for Uzis. While I can understand some terminology sticking around because it only ceased making logical sense a few years ago, how the heck is "clip" still commonly and mistakenly used to refer to a magazine? I thought clips went the way of the dodo in the 60's and it seems as if people should have stopped using the term by now for the same reason no one uses "carburetor" as an example of a car part. Because anything using them is an antique, and anyone who used them in combat is in a retirement home.

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Lots of people still own and shoot WW2 surplus rifles, and use stripper clips to load them. So they aren't as antiquated as you might think.

But it persists because we have poor gun education as a nation.

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The irony is that we still use stripper clips in the Army today, in order to easily load rounds into a magazine.

But yes, we do have poor gun education.