A magazine has four parts as follows: a spring, a spring follower, a body and a base. The defining difference between clips and magazines is the presence of a feed mechanism in a magazine, typically a spring-loaded follower, which a clip lacks. Soon after the adoption of the M1911 pistol, the term 'magazine' was settled on by the military and firearms experts, though the term ' clip' is often used in its place (though only for detachable magazines, never fixed). With the increased use of semi-automatic and automatic firearms, the detachable magazine became increasingly common.

2.2.3 Final fixed-magazine developments.

Various jurisdictions ban what they define as ' high-capacity magazines'. Magazines come in many shapes and sizes, from tubular magazines on lever-action and pump-action firearms that may tandemly hold several rounds, to detachable box and drum magazines for automatic rifles and light machine guns that may pack more than one hundred rounds. The detachable magazine is sometimes colloquially referred to as a ' clip', although this is technically inaccurate since a clip is actually an accessory device used to help load ammunition into a magazine. The magazine functions by holding several cartridges within itself and sequentially pushing each one into a position where it may be readily loaded into the barrel chamber by the firearm's moving action. The top image shows the magazine loaded and ready for use, while the lower image shows it unloaded and disassembledĪ magazine is an ammunition storage and feeding device for a repeating firearm, either integral within the gun (internal/fixed magazine) or externally attached (detachable magazine).

A staggered-column 9×19mm Browning Hi-Power pistol box magazine.

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