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The Spectacle Blog
Today’s CQ Roll Call newsletter illustrates one of the biggest obstacles to a functional gun regulation debate:
With no mention of banning AR-15-style rifles or jumbo ammunition clips, the [Mayors for Illegal Guns Washington-area Super Bowl] ad underscores how quickly the focus of gun control advocates has turned away from those ideas and almost entirely toward the background checks.
The problem? Clips and magazines are two different things.
Simply put, a clip is something that introduces cartridges into a magazine.
For my part, I nearly referred to cartridges as bullets in the course of making the distinction CQ Roll Call failed to, which demonstrates how easy it is for individuals who have not spent a lot of time handling guns to fundamentally misunderstand how they work.
Such misunderstanding is a recipe for bad policy, and in this context bad policy has clear life-and-death ramifications. Arguments surrounding gun regulation should be scrutinized for such errors on both sides, though perhaps one more than the other.
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Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.4.13 @ 6:23PM
Unfortunately, just as the Second Amendment offers protection to those who choose not to avail themselves of it, one of the exigencies of the First Amendment is that it protects the free speech that people have regarding things that they know nothing about.
Butch| 2.4.13 @ 7:15PM
I'm guessing the lack of comments to this post is due to the fact that most people on this site already know these things. To speak of "clips" instead of magazines is a dead giveaway that you don't know what you're talking about. Ditto the use of "bullets" when you mean cartridges.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.4.13 @ 9:03PM
I have a Garand, (and use stripper clips to charge .223 and .30 magazines), so I do get to use the word clip properly from time to time. I tend to prefer round to cartridge, and generally only use bullet to refer to the projectile.
Back when I used to carry a revolver, I was on the range requalifying one day, and had just reloaded the cylinder with a fresh speedloader. The rangemaster wanted to call a new drill, and gave the non-precise command "Empty your gun". Six quick shots from me and about 3.5 seconds later, he (somewhat redfaced) explained he wanted us to unload the weapon for a reload drill.
JmsA| 2.4.13 @ 11:56PM
Oh yes, the M-1 Garand, "The greatest battle implement ever devised", according to General Patton. My old man had one as well as an M-1 Carbine, both of which were confiscated by the Cuban government, followed by his standing in front of a magistrate, to whom he explained he had them for self protection. He was lucky, unlike many others, as he was just fined for his transgression.