While I do enjoy your lessons on weapon technologies, the distinction to me is between magazine fillers used in the rear such as you refer to for the M1 carbine and stripper clips used reload during combat. Stripper clips like those used for the Broomhandle, the K98, the SMLE, the ‘03, the M1895 Lee Navy, etc., etc, to provide reloading in action and other than single loading are the only way of reloading in combat.
It is stretching the definition to include conveniences for loading magazines in the safety of the rear to devices that are integral to the design, i.e., having milled slots in their receivers to accept stripper clips.
One is part of the weapon design, the other is an accessory.
P.S., the M1 clip is en bloc, not “en banc”.
P.S., the M1 clip is en bloc, not “en banc”.
Sorry that’s what I meant to say.
“One is part of the weapon design, the other is an accessory.”
I’ll disagree with you on that. All fill magazines. The situations they are used in does not change that fact.