Good info. I have never actually seen the insides of an M1. After he
kicked the bucket, I found out my very quiet neighbor was known far and
wide for refinishing and repairing the M1 wood. Only once did he ever
talk much, and that was not long before he kicked off. He was only in
his 50s. Had I found out, I might have been able to handle one.
When I was a kid, I remember the monkey ward sale papers have several
typed of rif les for sale for around $20 and they also were selling mi
car bines. That all ended in 1963. I've wished many times I had
ordered a few.
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The M-1 rifle had an unusual arrangement. The en-bloc clip (which held 8
cartridges) was actually inserted into the top of the rifle. An internal
magazine fed cartridges into the chamber while the clip remained in the
rifle. The clip ejected from the bottom of the rifle after the last round
was fired. This hybrid design may have contributed to the confusion between
clips and magazines. Many older rifles used a stripper clip that attached
above an internal magazine such that the rifleman manually pushed the stack
of cartridges down the clip and into the magazine. The awful, hated black
rifle (aka Armalite 15/16 pattern) normally uses a 20 or 30 round detachable
magazine. Military cartridges come in 10-round stripper clips with an
adapter called a "spoon". You can attach the loaded clip to the top of the
magazine (with the spoon) and load all 10 rounds with one authoritative
push.
As a point of information, in many states you cannot hunt deer with an AR-15
or other rifle using the military 5.56 (aka .223) cartridge because it is
not considered sufficiently powerful for large game. The .223 cartridge
started like as a varmint load.
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From: Curley McLain via Mercedes
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 10:47 PM
Not to argue, as I am sure you are technically correct, and I believe the
military does use that nomenclature. Out here in the sticks, I always
heard
the M1 type as a "stripper clip" while the replaceable magazine was called
a
clip. The origin of magazine was where (black) powder was stored.
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You are correct -
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The correct term is magazine. A clip only holds cartridges, normally
outside the gun, until they are loaded in a magazine. A magazine may
be integral to a gun (like the M-1) or removable (like the M-14 or
M-16) and preloaded before being inserted into the gun.
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What you really mean is clips that hold large amounts of ammunition. Any
gun except my single shot shotgun can kill lots of people quickly. So, no,
a ban on any one particular type of gun is not going to have any effect.
What you need is a ban on radical fundamentalists of nay stripe - they
should be fair game open season all year long.
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I guess I meant "currently legal guns that have the capability to kill
lots
of people quickly"
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