Did The Colonel Really Just Say That?

[Emperor]

I know some people will think I am nit picking, but yesterday during the 6:00 pm press briefing in Lafayette (Lafayette Sheriff, LSP Chief, and Jindall), Colonel Mike Edmonson actually referred to the shooter's gun's magazine as a "clip."

I cannot find any technical reference to a pistol or firearm magazine referred to by any gun maker or expert as a clip.

Why would the head of the state police not know that? And believe me, I am not knocking the guy. I have a lot of respect for him and the job he does; but that is troubling to me.

Then I heard WWL do it, and WBRZ. Of course I don't expect the news media to get that right, but the Colonel?

Am I being too critical?

 

[GBob01]

Am I being too critical?

I heard it too, as I often do in the media. Just do what I do, and get over it.
Whether it is correct or not; a lot have people have always referred to them as clips, and you're not going to change it.

 

[pecka]

I know a few LEO's that aren't really "gun guys". One being a DEA agent that kicks down doors. He knows that its a magazine but not a LEO's are into the tactical aspect of the job. Kinda like Ive called the black wasp-like bug a "Mud diver" my entire life. Well about a year ago someone that lives outside my area corrected me and informed me it was a "mud dauber". I still say diver...

 

[Jmfox3]

Because stripper clips used to fill magazines. Back in the day it was a common albeit incorrect reference.

 

[general mills]

he did. So does probably over half the audience he was addressing. If I see a puddle of fuel under a car, truck, locomotive, airplane, whatever, I'll tell you its leaking gas.

 

[ajridgedell]

Yeah the only incorrect gun terminology that bothers me is when you call my ar15 a machine gun. I don't even care if you call it an assault rifle, I don't care if you say silencer or suppressor, magazine or clip, precision rifle or sniper rifle. Terminology doesn't matter to me unless it totally changes the legality of it. I'm on the fence about weather m4/m16 vs ar15 bothers me, but a lot of people don't know the diff.

 

[hdfinder47]

I hear "clip" so much at the range that I sometimes use the term incorrectly myself. As long as the folks I am talking to get my meaning, I can live with it. But I prefer the term "magazine".

 

[XD-GEM]

Keep in mind that his background is in PR. He may have purposely called it a clip so that the media types who don't really know what a magazine is would understand.

 

[MOTOR51]

Keep in mind that his background is in PR. He may have purposely called it a clip so that the media types who don't really know what a magazine is would understand.

And LSU's football coach was never safer


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[paddle007]

The NRA's Rifleman addressed this awhile back. Through some lengthy jabber they convinced me clip was OK. Still don't like it or use it.

 

[Old School]

Remington calls them clips.

 

[US Infidel]

I heard It too....... MAGAZINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dad-e-o]

Perhaps Hickok 45 can clear this up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoSNHe413rY

 

[Emperor]

Perhaps Hickok 45 can clear this up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoSNHe413rY

Exactly! If you care enough to learn the difference, you should understand the difference!

My biggest problem with the Colonel using that INCORRECT terminology is either he doesn't know (the worst option), he doesn't care (not very comforting option), or he is lazy (very discomforting since he is the head of the department).

If having him at a press conference is important because of who he is, then he should report the facts accurately BECAUSE of who he is!

 

[BillnLA]

I don't see what the fuss is. This comes up rather often. Either term is just a "name" used to refer to the item. Same as if you call your rifle an "AR-15" or "AR15". If it isn't a Colt branded rifle, then it shouldn't be because Colt owns the copyright to those two names and insists they should only be used to refer to their rifle. Or what do you call your aluminum flat bottomed boat. Is it a bateau, jon boat, flat, or yawl?

 

[noob]

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf...tack.html#incart_2box_nola_river_orleans_news

Nola.com calls it an assault rifle

 

[general mills]

Personally I thought he was very well spoken for someone giving what seemed to be an off the cuff speech during such an emotional time. He did much better than I would have, and I can't pick this apart on whether he said magazine or clip. I'm betting he likely said the term he felt most would understand.

 

[charlie12]

It was a Hi-Point maybe that's what they call them.

When I first knew him we were working wrecks when he first became a Trooper. He had a revolver then

 

[Emperor]

I don't see what the fuss is. This comes up rather often. Either term is just a "name" used to refer to the item. Same as if you call your rifle an "AR-15" or "AR15". If it isn't a Colt branded rifle, then it shouldn't be because Colt owns the copyright to those two names and insists they should only be used to refer to their rifle. Or what do you call your aluminum flat bottomed boat. Is it a bateau, jon boat, flat, or yawl?

When I found out that AR stood for Armalite, I stopped calling my rifles "AR's". Why? Because it is not accurate names for those rifles. That is a trademark name, which makes it worse. It's like calling any cola soda a "Coke." Is it incorrectly done all the time? Sure! It is still incorrect.

As the American lexicon gets further watered down to make it easier for lazy people to speak; so goes the accurate use of the language.

If the irony is lost on the fact that the chief officer for the biggest police force in the state is incorrectly detailing the parts of the firearm used to commit an unlawful act, then I suppose if he refers to the blade of a knife as the "sharp part" that will be ok too.

How about if doctors start referring to your heart as the "blood pumping thing-a-ma-jig?" Scientist start calling "Heavy water" from a nuclear reactor, the "green liquid from the Simpson's cartoon?"

 

[FORman]

Trade marks can get lost in the language, not thats its right. I think thats how Coke lost Cola.