Is this a part from a gun? *PIC*

[ENTHUSIAST]

I found it next to a bunch of gun parts when I was reorganizing but I have no idea where it might have came from or what is is other than some type of retaining clip???

[Merc1138]

That's exactly what it is, a retaining clip.

What it's for... could be anything. There are things besides guns that use those.

[madsend81]

^This. It is an external ring clip. It's used to retain a pin/shaft in place. They are used in firearms, but also used in other mechanical assemblies.

[johnthomas]

You could see that clip on guns, pulleys, holding on levers, thousands of uses for that retaining clip. If you found it in a box of gun parts, there is a good chance it belongs to a gun. If the box is a parts box from many guns, there is no telling where it belongs. A bad joke played on me once was someone throwing in extra small parts in a project I was working on, needless to say, I was befuddled.

[Untamed1972]

It's to holds your kanooter valve in place.

[Pandanin]

It's one of those 30 bullets per second clips I hear about so often. It goes pew pew pew

[Merc1138]

It's to holds your kanooter valve in place.

Whoah, family friendly forum dude. There's no need to discuss that here.

[BKinzey]

It's one of those 30 bullets per second clips I hear about so often. It goes pew pew pew

That pic is of the tactical version. It goes pow, pow, kapow.

[bsg]

That's exactly what it is, a retaining clip.

What it's for... could be anything. There are things besides guns that use those.

^^^ this.

[TheExiled]

It's to holds your kanooter valve in place.

No, no, no. Clearly by the size of that one, it belongs on top of his Phitzer-Phatzer valve, on the left side next to the headlight fluid reservoir and muffler bearings.

[1badjack68]

Send this pic to the DOJ . Their the gun experts. LMAO!!!

[DennisCA]

Either it's a retaining clip or a very small horseshoe!

[maxx03]

Snap ring. The holes at the end are where the snap ring plier tips go, to compress it and pull out.

[nedro]

Nobody has it right.
It's a Jesus Clip.
Because as you are carefully trying to remove it, it suddenly goes flying across the garage and you exclaim, "Jesus!"
I actually have a tool to hold them as you remove them.

In all reality, it is specifically called a, "C" clip.
It looks like the ones you see on the U-joints of a drive shaft. And about the perfect size also.

Most clips of that style are, "E" clips. But this one does not have the tab in the middle of the circumference.
I know, I know. TMI

[RobertMW]

It's a Jesus Clip.
Because as you are carefully trying to remove it, it suddenly goes flying across the garage and you exclaim, "Jesus!"

There is actually something more colloquially known as a Jesus Nut/Pin/Clip. It is any part that is a single point of catastrophic mechanical failure, the term started in the early days of helicopters where a single large nut held the rotor blade assembly in place; if it came loose and fell off, all you have left is to pray to Jesus.