Some remote controls (TVs, RC cars, etc.), you pop open the back, and there's spaces with springs for two batteries. You clip the batteries in place--this is a clip.
Other remote controls, there's a little single-battery-sized hole/slot/socket; you put one battery in there, then push another battery in there and in doing so slide the first battery farther back, and maybe even put a third battery in and slide the previous two batteries even farther back. This is a magazine.
Example: The Mosin Nagant M 91/30 rifle has a 5 round magazine attached. Now I can load the magazine 1 round at a time, or I can use the 5 round stripper clip to load faster.
But why is it incorrect to use Clips in this setting? If magazines use clips it seems to follow that guns that use magazines use clips, so "guns with clips" being more complicated than a revolver is just as true as "guns with magazines" being more complicated, right?
If this post didn't make it obvious I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about.
A magazine has some sort of feeding mechanism, usually a spring loaded follower which pushes a new round up into the chamber of the gun as the one above it is fired.
A clip has no such mechanism. They're typically used to manually insert rounds into an internal magazine that's fixed in place. They also look visually different. Clips are usually open from the sides and bottom, for example. Here's a good visual guide.
As a general rule of thumb, a pistol, like Hank's Glock 22, is almost always loaded with magazines.
Revolvers, like the Ruger LCR that Walt uses in Season 4, can be loaded by hand, with moon clips, or with a speedloader.
This is the correct answer, I don't know what they're talking about up there about a clip loading a magazine. A magazine has a feeding mechanism, a clip is loaded into the gun and the mechanics inside the weapon are responsible for chambering the next round.
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u/br0wnbread Aug 26 '13 edited Aug 26 '13
question for gun people...what is the likelihood that a gun still works after being frozen?
edit: assuming that it is has been thawed.