by BBELLC
This is an awesome awesome story. And it looks like u are setting it up for a lot more to come. I HOPE I HOPE. Thanks for all ur hard work sending us such a great read looking for more ASAP PLEASE.
First, like your stories, read Tank etc in a couple of days. Good plot line and character development. One thing though. A clip is a device to make loading a gun easier, usually a stripper clip that holds X number of rounds which are quickly forced into a magazine. Handguns and rifles hold their bullets in a magazine prior to being put into battery and fired. Non-shooters usually call mags clips, shooters...never.
To those who think I'm a non shooter. I own three guns and I fire them periodically. I have a Dan Wesson. 357 competition revolver. A s&w m&p 40, and an ar-15. I am older, and I grew up calling pistol magazines clips. Right or wrong, why would anyone assume i don't excercise my right to the 2nd amendment is beyond me. I do try to be as accurate in my stories, but like all humans we do fail at being perfect. For those who want to be petty about petty things you really don't need to read my stories, but if you comment, maybe leave a name so I can challenge you to better. Thanks to all who do read and understand it is FICTION and I have fun writing.
For what it's worth: I'm older (74), VN combat vet, Army. I've been shooting since I was a single-digit age and own several firearms that use either internal magazines or external magazines. I grew up calling pistol magazines "clips" like everyone else I knew. I mostly use the term "magazine" now as the Army preferred it, but probably not always. See, I'm one of those aggravating old farts that gets pissed when some judgemental anonymous self-anointed keyboard firearms terminology expert goes all PC on us.
BBELLC - The object is to communicate and every swinging dick(or pee squatter) that read that knew exactly what you were talking about. Keep on writing.
I'm with the Author and BuzzCzar - grew up calling magazines 'clips' until I got into the Army (still have the postcard from the draft board telling me that If I didn't enlist within 30 days I'd be drafted.) The Army taught me 'magazines'. Many of my non ex-military friends who shoot still call them clips. It's a small picky thing. Like in the army, the M16 was NOT a gun. Never call it a gun in training unless you enjoyed doing pushups. A gun was big, a canon. Or mortar (although the Mortar platoon guys called them tubes.) We got one over on the Drill Sgt when we pointed out that the M60 machine gun had stamped on it, 'Gun, machine ...' LOL. But a rifle or pistol, not a gun.
I Just re-read this and the preceding stories, so I could go onto the next chapter with everything fresh in my mind. The story so far is as good a read this time as it was a couple of months ago.