Here’s the thing. You said a “magazine is a clip.”

Is it in the same family? Yes. No one’s arguing that.

As someone who is a scientist who studies blasters, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls magazines clips. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.

If you’re saying “magazine family” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of Blastrae, which includes things from scopes to dart storage to barrel extensions.

So your reasoning for calling a magazine a clip is because random people “call the ammo holders clips?” Let’s get belts and cylinders in there, then, too.

Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A magazine is a magazine and a member of the blaster attachment family. But that’s not what you said. You said a magazine is a clip, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the clip family clips, which means you’d call belts, cylinders, and other parts clips, too. Which you said you don’t.

It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?