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Re:The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket by gvb on Monday November 01, 2010 @03:37PM (#1857876)
He actually says "bullet", I would interpret that literally - just the bullet, not a full shell and definitely not any gunpowder.
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Re:The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket by ceejayoz on Monday November 01, 2010 @03:49PM (#1857924)
Virtually everyone I know would call a "cartridge" a "bullet", just as they might confuse "clip" and "magazine".
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Re:The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket by lincolnq on Monday November 01, 2010 @04:22PM (#1858060)
Educate me - what's the difference between a cartridge and a bullet? What's the difference between a clip and a magazine?

Edit: found answer to my first question below. The bullet is the inert mass. The cartridge is a bullet plus casing plus gunpowder / other energetic material.

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Re:The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket by ceejayoz on Monday November 01, 2010 @04:30PM (#1858093)
Clip vs. magazine: http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2009/02/21/clip-vs-magazi...
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Re:The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket by lincolnq on Monday November 01, 2010 @05:21PM (#1858284)
Huh. So a clip is a bunch of cartridges with something connecting them, whereas a magazine is an enclosed box of cartridges.

Or at least, that's what I got out of the link. That one is (still) legitimately confusing to me. It didn't directly help (I didn't notice what was strange / funny about the image until I followed through to the "Gun Zone" link).

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Re:The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket by jat850 on Monday November 01, 2010 @03:42PM (#1857895)
That's possible; if so, the word "unused" threw me off. But your interpretation could also be right too.
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