I tend to buy lots of 99¢ specials for my Kindle, and generally have good luck ... well, maybe 85 percent of the time. But this one ... sheesh. An "Interstellar" Marine is low on ammo in a firefight, and "pounded another clip into the breach."
Bruce Campbell wouldn't be caught undead in this one.
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I work VERY hard at getting all the people I come in contact with to learn the difference between a CLIP and a MAGAZINE.
And so far I've been 100% successful, even to the point of having some of my students joke about it with me....
Ouch! I take a "clip jar" to all of my classes and if ANYONE calls a magazine a clip they owe the jar a quarter. I HATE that! I even throw a M-1 clip out to show the difference.
I'd also like to know how he got the whole "clip" jammed into the "breech". Probably took a heck of a lot of force. Unless we are talking about an M1 Garand-ish type weapon where it actually is a clip, but the use of the word "breech" for a modern auto-loader is still kind of weird. You'd really be shoving a clip into a magazine. Huh, I never really thought of it that way. See, you got me all thinking and stuff. :)
drjim: yep. I taught my daughters early on about the correct terminology, too.
keads: exactly. I don't have an M1 clip to use for the example, but a speed strip for the wheelgun makes a reasonable substitute, once I explain.
45er, it constitutes massive failure on the part of the author to have any idea what he was referring to. I think he looked up a list of gun-related terms & just sprinkled a few at random throughout the battle scene.
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