Re: [RayLosli] I love guns!
I could be mistaken, but I don't think he's disagreeing with you. Like you said, the M1, and the '03 before it, have a magazine which is a fixed part of the weapon and not removable like it is with most combat rifles since. Therefore when you load it (the M1, not the '03), you are inserting an enbloc
clip. I've had a couple of these proud old warhorses and loved 'em both. I had to sell them to pay off my hooker debts.
And I dunno if it's still the case, but when I worked for our Uncle, 5.56 came on stripper
clips too. Obviously they had to be put into the detachable box
magazine to go bang...
Maybe it's from the dub dub two where the terminology problem comes from. Or straight thug ass gangsters. One of the two.