Oh, I'll go ahead and say it if YOU won't

[howardtayler]

If you've missed it on the news, there was a shooting here in Utah Monday evening. An 18-year-old with a shotgun killed five before being cornered by Ken Hammond, an off-duty police officer who kept him pinned down with fire until uniformed officers arrived. It's not clear who fired the shot that killed Sulejmen Talovic, but the perp is dead, and

Comments

[bibliophage]

Technically, a 'clip', or rather, a 'cartridge clip' (or 'ammunition clip'), is a 'metal frame or container holding cartridges for a magazine rifle or automatic pistol'. (Note that a 'banana clip' is just a long 'magazine' that bends because of the shape of the spring and ammunition)

A 'magazine' is a building or room for storing munitions. (I kid you not. It even comes before the synonym definition for the clip)

I think that anyone that leaves a loaded weapon lying around anywhere but physically on his person is an idiot. I can grab the case and clip, ram the clip in the grip, pop the safety (if you use one) and rack the slide about as fast as just grabbing the gun, popping the safety, and racking the slide.

I never leave any of my weapons with a round up the spout unless I'm preparing to use it at a range. As for transporting? Yes, some days I have to put it in the car, take it out of the car at night, put it in the car, take it out, etc.

The ammo box, on the other hand, I sometimes leave in the car. It's just a toolbox, after all.

Does that answer your questions?

I _hope_ you don't leave loaded weapons lying around.

[_eljefe_]

The first auto loading rifles had the magazine built into the weapon. You used the stripper clip to rapidly load them into the weapon. Even though the magazine has replaced the stripper clip on most autoloaders, the stripper clip is still in use.

http://www.thetacticalsolution.com/docs/usefulinfo_stripper_clips.htm

Ammunition is issued in the military on stripper clips, which can be rapidly loaded into the magazines as shown.

And no, I don't leave any weapons loaded that are not secured or under my immediate control

[bibliophage]

Well, 'magazine' was what they called the room(s) where they stored the barrels of gunpowder in times of yore :)

My guess is that it stuck around as 'place to stick ammunition', and just migrated into use as a 'thing to stick in the gun'.

Lots of stuff goes that way.