@shark: *wink *wink. Maybe iSoaker was trying to insinuate something here. =p
@isoaker: Very clever nullification, iSoaker. The stick figure's non-firing arm is blocking the firing hand/finger from being seen!
Some thoughts: The most basic definition of a magazine is a container of ammo. Water is our ammo. So that makes water refill bottles and reservoirs, by definition, magazines. Of course, that basic definition of magazine assumes ammo to be used to refer to projectiles (Generally harmful ones.). Personally, I just use the term for any container that pushes projectiles into a chamber via spring, but the new Nerf SS blasters' swappable reservoirs do resemble magazines pretty closely so I won't be anally insistent on calling them swappable reservoirs. (Hey, I'm not that bad.) The container of ammo definition means large storages of large shells (such as those stored on warships) are also magazines.
But to make matters funnier, there is a Nerf blaster called the
Magstrike, which is an updated design of early Nerf air powered automatics which used a clip (will go over appropriateness of calling it a clip later) containing a set of barrels that hold the darts together. The barrels hold the darts in place and also seal each dart as it passes over the air release, and the entire clip is pushed up slowly.
The piece that holds the darts together by far resembles a clip more so than anything else. Yet Nerf's packaging refers to it as a magazine. I wouldn't say that it could fall under the container of ammo definition, as "container" usually refers to something mostly or entirely enclosed. In short, they have basically completely reversed the terminology that people generally get confused. However, I'm unsure on the appropriateness of calling it a clip too, because it does not function like one. For the sake of simplicity, I still sometimes refer to it as a clip anyways.
Just some thoughts on it.
The hand of that arm should really be holding the trigger and grip area, but somehow that got lost. Oh well...