Board Thread:Wiki news and announcements/@comment-26431461-20190702133635/@comment-27306930-20190802232804

FLATtheFISH wrote: I think the reason Nerf still calls them clips is because that's how the first Nerf clips were named, and it was too late to turn back once they figured out (if ever) what the difference was.

I've read a similar explanation from several sources. Apparently, the people in the Marketing Department that named the original Longshot clip were not gun enthusiasts. They most likely got the term from TV and movies, where it is also frequently misused. By the time customers started pointing out the mistake, the merchandise was already on the shelves and Hasbro was well on its way to fully developing the system. So they just went with it. No harm, no foul. And the tradition continues to this very day, with dart blasters anyway.

Obviously some folks in Marketing got smarter as they got older, and Vortex and RIVAL don't have this annoying little problem 👍 👍