OK, ban the AR-15, by shape and color. I'm on board.

[jmowreader]

71. There is a difference between a clip and a magazine

A clip just holds bullets. The M-1 Garand used clips - you put one in the rifle, pushed the rounds in with your thumb, and removed the clip. (And if you didn't move your hand fast enough the bolt would close on it, giving you M-1 Thumb.)

A magazine has a spring in the bottom of it that pushes the rounds up so the bolt can pick them up and push them into the chamber to be fired. An M-1 has a fixed magazine, as do most bolt-action repeating rifles like Remington 700s and Weatherby Mark V's. To load one that doesn't use a clip, you just pull the bolt to the rear and push rounds in through the ejection port. An M-16, AR-15, AK-47 or whatever other nut gun you have, has a detachable magazine. You can unload the gun by taking the magazine out and pulling the bolt to the rear to eject a round in the chamber, or reload it by removing an empty magazine and replacing it with a full one.