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to avoid any more confusion(and have a reason to yell at people for calling the the wrong thing) i am going to go on and on about how mags are not clips: 1. what a magazine is: a magi zine is just defined as a ammo holder. a box of ammo could be a magazine. a magazine does not need to feed ammo. a magazine can be fixed or removable. most are fixed, and very few guns use a removable mag(were talking about real guns here). the big distinguisher between a removable mag and a clip is that mag fed guns can be breach loaded/muzzle loaded etc. with out the mag in the gun. 2. what a clip is: a clip has a more exact difinition, a clip holds and loads ammo, and has to be removable. the big reason it has to be removable is because that is the only way to load the gun(unlike how you could load a mag by breach loading or using a stripper clip, but we will get into that later). clips have a part of the gun on them(the breach) making the gun unfireable and useless with out the clip(real guns need the breach because it makes a complete seal for the air pressure that fires the gun). clips also fit into the mag on a gun(like i said, mags only need to hold ammo). the best way to understand this is with the m1 garand clip(second one down in clip section of pic). the m1 garand could not be breach loaded, or muzzle loaded. only loaded by the en-bloc-clip(i know i butchered that name). now some people say that you could load a round into the clip when it was in the gun, but it was still loading the clip, not the breach. 3. what a stripper clip is: (first one in clip section of picture). A STRIPPER CLIP IS NOT A CLIP. that is where most people get confused. a stripper clip loads rounds into the mag, and is not a real clip(i think the name comes from how the ammo clips onto the strip.) 4. why so many people get confused: most say it originated all the way back to when the M1 garand was used, and people mistook the en-bloc-clip for a mag(nobody called it by it's real name) and if you said hand me another clip, people take it as hand me another mag, and the same is true the other way around. 5. other things i noticed: in your picture on the mag section, the first two look like pistol clips,but i can't say for sure because i don't know what pistol it goes to(some can be loaded with out the mag, and some need the clip). there are no real clips for knex, and never will be. the main flaw is that knex can always be muzzle and breach loaded when there is no mag present. well there you go, now if any body calls a mag a clip again, just direct them here.

Does the difference even matter? I think this shouldn't even be an argument

ah i did not seem to know

Does it really matter? We built toy guns, not real guns. We don't need to be that specific.

It's like trying to use the definition for a real semi auto for a knex gun, it's just not possible, so we simplify the definition.

Not that K'nex clips aren't possible, but K'nex guns are toys. Toys.

Does it even matter? In the world of k'nex guns, a clip is removable, a mag is permanent. It's like we call all guns that fire at the pull of a trigger semi automatic, except none of them are reloaded/cocked by the release of compressed gas.

I care.

Thank you so much, however I doubt the noobs who post comments like the ones you refer to even know what a forum is, let alone read the comments on it.