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[vroomery]

For clarification, it is called a magazine. A clip is what you use to load a fixed magazine, typically in a rifle, but not a handgun.

I don't know how that nomenclature got started, but it is one of my biggest peeves when listening to people talk about firearms.

MAGAZINE.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=270656

the main difference is that a clip is meant to be disposable and to be used on a machine gun