I think a lot of confusion of true gun afficianatos with these terms comes from something the instructor pointed out.

Clips are used to fill a magazine....magazines are sometimes internal, sometimes externally visable like the SKS.

Magazines are removable....but so are some clips like the M1....so is the M1 ammo loading device clip really a clip or a magazine. The military labeled it a clip. But because it was removable shouldn't it really be a magazine. No, because the magazine is located internally in the rifle.

The term magazine has some very old history even before the use of guns and gun powders. It was where weapons were stored....even when those weapons were swords and spears.

The M1 stores ammo in the internal space in the weapon, so this area in the M1 is a magazine...and what loads it is a clip.

So, a pistol with a hollow handle that stores ammo, does this use a clip or a magazine. Well there is an area in the bottom of the grip to insert ammo for storage...and this area is the magazine. You install a clip into that magazine....now see where the confusion comes from.

Because weapons like the M16 family store most of their ammo outside the weapon, there is no true magazine in the weapon, and hense it has a removable magazine....not a removable clip. The clips for the M16 family are for loading magazines as shown in the video and called stripper clips.

My point to this long post is that some people seem to have a pet peeve about these terms being used some say incorrectly; usually brought out by prior military service where it was driven into them. Of course the military is always right about everything, right?

So, if the ammo is stored internally, the term magazine should be used and as such there are many firearms that could use magazines. But is the ammo storage device is removable, it could be correctly called a clip if it is installed mostly internal in the firearm....like most semi auto pistols....as long as you are not in the military.

Did I stir this enough?