From:	Steve Huth <HUTH@***.EDU>
Subject:	Clip placement on the DL-9
Date:	Wed, 14 Apr 1993 13:58:29 -0700

As I'm neither an engineer nor a weapons expert I must admit that the
details of how the bullets are loaded into the chamber remains an open
question. I envision the clip placement as follows: First clip located
in the firing grip and spring-loaded up into the weapon; 2nd clip located
on the weapons right side (user's point of view) and angled slightly down
(if 0 degrees is straight up, and 90 degrees is straight out to the right,
then the second clip is at about a 60-70 degree angle). The angle was to
allow easier use for right handers (BTW, lefties may actually have some
annoying problems with this two-clip arrangement). Internally, I imagine
that a sensor of some sort would have to determine which clip was active
and place a bar of some sort on the other clip. One thing I failed to
mention in the original post is that you cannot burst fire or full