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The ban didn't outlaw high-capacity "clips." Clips are for paper and little girls' hair. It's a magazine.

Even though I aggree with him in essense, he should check his own credibility. The measure bans neither clips nor magazines, although it does mention magazines in the Assault weapon portion. It bans "high capacity ammunition feeding devices" (hey it was written by lawyers working for gun grabbers!). That includes both clips and magazines. (There aren't many clips that hold more than 10 rounds, but there are some, I think). The venerable M-1 Garand uses "en-bloc" clips, which are sort of half way between a removable magazine, and a regular "clip", which is a device to hold catridges and help load them into the magazine, be it fixed or removable. The unusual, but not unique, feature of the Garands clips is that they are loaded into to the magazine, rather than merely aiding loading, and then they are ejected when the last round is fired.

The ban didn't outlaw high-capacity "clips." Clips are for paper and little girls' hair. It's a magazine. Even though I aggree with him in essense, he should check his own credibility. The measure bans neither clips nor magazines, although it does mention magazines in the Assault weapon portion. It bans "high capacity ammunition feeding devices" (hey it was written by lawyers working for gun grabbers!). That includes both clips and magazines. (There aren't many clips that hold more than 10 rounds, but there are some, I think). There are 15-round *clips* [chargers, or *stripper clips*] for the 5,45mm AK74, and 10-round versions for the fixed box magazine fed FN model 49 rifle that preceeded the wider issued and better known FN-FAL, and for the Mauser Model 1896 *broomhandle* Mauser pistol, now having served theie owners of three centuries, including myself. And U.S. military ammunition for the M1 carbine and M16 rifles has been issued to soldiers in the field in bandoleers containing 10-round *stripper clips* of ammunition in the proper calibers for those weapons, though meant for reloading the detatchable magazine via an adapter, rather than the rifle itself.

That includes both clips and magazines. (There aren't many clips that hold more than 10 rounds, but there are some, I think).

It also includes "belts", and "similar devices". Since nothing in the language mentions anything about being able to feed ammunition mechanically into a firearm, it would seem by its language that the ban would also apply to things like bandoliers, though I've not heard of it being applied in such fashion.