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It is widely accepted thet any box magazine that holds ammunition and it clamped on to, or attached to is known as a magazine. The Term clip is widely mis-used to mean the same thing, when it is derivative of a strip of metal used to guide cartridges into a weapon (IE: Stripper Clip...) or to hold cartridges from inside the weapon itself.

So, it could be used when describing a pistol magazine that holds rounds inside the body of the weapon, but it would be incorrect to use the clip descriptor to describe an item such as those used to hold rounds on the M16, Ak47, MP5, etc.

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