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As an aside, I suspect that the term 'clip' in the USA is a hold-over from just before and during WWII. If you read a lot of GI reports and statements from WWII, many use 'clip' to mean 'magazine'. Not all, but a fair percentage.
In the 1937 US Army world, the M1's en bloc clip was a new twist on the familiar 'stripper clip' used on the 1903 rifle but still, a clip. From then on when recruits were trained, whether on the new M1 or on a 1903, everything was clip clip clip.
It seems logical to me that these soldiers naturally kept on using the term 'clip' to mean 'anything that held ammunition that you place into a small arm'. In addition, 'magazine' is such a cumbersome word we use 'mag' today. It's no wonder they sometimes used something easier to spit out, even back then.
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