It's not a clip, no matter how often the term is misused. It's a magazine. A magazine holds shells under spring pressure in preparation for feeding into the firearm's chamber. Examples include box, tubular, drum and rotary magazines.
Some are fixed to the firearm while others are removable. A cartridge "clip" has no spring and does not feed shells directly into the chamber. Rather, clips hold cartridges in the correct sequence for "charging" a specific firearm's magazine.
Stripper clips allow rounds to be "stripped" into the magazine. Other types are fed along with the shells into the magazine, the M1 Garand famously operates in this fashion.
Once all rounds have been fired, the clip is ejected or otherwise released from the firearm. The term "assault rifle" is perhaps the most commonly misused gun term, and certainly it's one of the most damaging to the public's perception of firearms.
Most often, the media, anti-gun groups and all-too-many gun owners incorrectly use it to describe an AR rifle. Department of Defense defines assault rifles as "selective-fire weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power between sub-machine gun and rifle cartridges.
They are semi-automatic, non-battlefield firearms. To add further clarity, "AR" also does not stand for "assault rifle" or "automatic rifle" as is occasionally implied, but rather ArmaLite rifle, after the company that developed it in the s. However, anti-gun groups have been hugely successful applying the false label to convince Americans that AR's and other semi-auto rifle platforms are a fully automatic, public threat.
Much of the mainstream media now uses the "assault rifle" label broadly and without question. To further capitalize, anti-gun groups completely invented the term "assault weapons" to broadly cover everything from home-defense shotguns to standard-capacity handguns, anything they wish to ban. In fact, according to Bruce H. Kobayashi and Joseph E. Olson, writing in the Stanford Law and Policy Review , "Prior to , the term 'assault weapon' did not exist in the lexicon of firearms.
It is a political term, developed by anti-gun publicists to expand the category of 'assault rifles' so as to allow an attack on as many additional firearms as possible on the basis of undefined 'evil' appearance.
So, while the term "assault rifle" is frequently misused, the term "assault weapon" doesn't even really exist. These seemingly synonymous terms are often used interchangeably, but they describe two distinct aspects of shots on target. Accuracy is a measurement of the shooter's ability to consistently hit a given target; precision is essentially the tightness of his groups.
That's the same thing, you say? Perhaps further examples are in order. The best illustration of the differences I've come across is courtesy of an unlikely source: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Precision" was written with surveyors in mind, but its examples include four, four-shot groups by a rifleman who we shall assume has a perfectly zeroed firearm and is aiming for the center of the target.
In example No. This is neither precise nor accurate. This is precise the shots are close together but not accurate the shots are far off-center. He is accurate his shots are near the intended target but not precise it's a wide group. This is both accurate he hit the center of the target and precise all four shots were close together. So, while a rifle that consistently produces tight groups is often described as "accurate," it's more properly an indication of good precision.
There is some gray area with this one. Some use the term "handgun" to describe any hand-held firearm, but only use "pistol" in reference to semi-automatic handguns, not revolvers. I'm of the school that believes pistol and handgun may be used interchangeably. Here's why. Often used more specifically to refer to a single-shot, revolver or semi-automatic handgun. Different sizes of shot have different names Thank you very much for your explanations!
Very helpful! I think going into the little details of a foreign language is always the most difficult but also the most exciting part of language acquisition. Like the little difference between "round" and "bullet". For a shotgun, the entire piece of ammo is called a shell -- including the metal cap, the plastic outside, the gunpowder, the shot, and everything else. For large-caliber ammo the kind that explodes when it lands , such as a mortar gun would fire, the word shell often refers to just the piece that leaves the end of the barrel.
But your definition of "round" is exactly contradictory to the one of the Collins Cobuild. Bullet - The projectile that is expelled from a rifled firearm as opposed to slug.
Cartridge - A complete unfired round of ammunition consisting of a cartridge case, projectile bullet , primer and smokeless powder.
Cartridge case - The container that holds the cartridge components; usually made of brass, nickel or steel. Comparison microscope - Two microscopes joined by an optical bridge, which allows the viewing of two samples side by side; it is the primary tool of the firearms examiner.
Magazine - A container for cartridges that has a spring and follower to feed those cartridges into the chamber of a firearm; the magazine may be detachable or an integral part of the firearm. Pistol - A handgun; the most common is a semi-automatic pistol, which uses a magazine and ejects fired cartridge cases automatically.
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