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box magazine

American  

noun

  1. a rectangular cartridge holder in a submachine or light machine gun.


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The shooter was a Ruger AR-556, which is, in the words of its instruction manual, “a gas impingement driven, box magazine fed, autoloading rifle.”

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2017

My Rifle My rifle is a .30-.40 box magazine Winchester, with Lyman sights.

From Camp and Trail by White, Stewart Edward

The box magazine, fixed under receiver without cut-off, holds six cartridges.

From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.