Well they are distinctly different things, but I think it's an in-group/jargon thing. "Gun people" culture is to emphasize the distinction between a magazine an

Well they are distinctly different things, but I think it's an in-group/jargon thing. "Gun people" culture is to emphasize the distinction between a magazine and a clip, while normal people don't really care. You see it all the time in other communities, like how people here on HN would laugh at someone purporting to be a 'hacker' going on about how they like to 'program in HTML'. Now, if you really want to have fun with gun people, break out the old suppressor vs. silencer argument. The distinction between the two is ill-defined and there may or may not be a difference depending on who you ask, but some people will argue for hours over it.