The quote above comes from The Erasers by Alain Robbe-Grillet. I rather liked the book, what with all the undercurrents running through it and all that. So why nitpicking?
Still, it must take a heck of a meticulous person to put a clip back in place in a revolver... properly, too.
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"The proper functioning of the mechanism" sort of tells you the writer doesn't know what he's talking about- and doesn't much care.
Excellent catch. Very funny. So much for verisimilitude. But, you know, most of his readers probably don't know shat from Shinola either.
True. I would have missed it too, but the book mentions that revolver about fifty times.
Indeed. I should have noticed this giveaway. Thanks.
Just came back from a vacation to the US southwest where at a gunslinger show I saw a man loading his revolver with a round clip holding 6 shots. Something sexy, the way it worked.
Square peg in a round hole, eh? Genius!
I believe that in this case the thingy that is being loaded is not called "clip" - rather a "cylinder".
Well, let's be charitable. A good writer he still is, and most probably his only acquaintance with firearms was seeing them on French cops...
Precisely. A pre-loaded cylinder. Hardly new. Cavalry carried similar things in the Civil War.
Right. I suspect, though, that not every gun model took a preloaded cylinder.
As my oldest friend, recently reminded me after showing her two handguns; you never put bullets in a gun unless you are about to shoot it.
The IDF saying is that a gun without bullets in it is as good as a broom. On the other hand, you are supposed to take the clip out when in populated area.
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