Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-33974428-20180422190516/@comment-27306930-20180513202033

Shotgun02 wrote: I tend to call them clips more for the hell of it, that and I never feel okay asking in a store "Do you have any Nerf 18 dart mags in?" if I can't find any.

That and think the reason was more so people overhearing a Nerf battle didn't think people where using real guns. I believe it may have been intentional too, but for a different reason. In the early days, non-gun owning parents who were buying Nerf blasters for their kids, may not have understood what a magazine was. Seriously, they may have thought the blaster came with a magazine subscription. City folk are dumb that way sometimes.

A "clip", by its very nature, clips onto something. So there's less confusion about what a clip is.