I wish they would stop calling standard capacity rifle magazines “high capacity” to try to play them up as being in some way unusual
10 rounds isn’t even really standard for pistols, basically every full size pistol comes with a magazine larger than that (for reference, the most common US police duty pistols, the Glock 19 and 22, come from the factory with 15 round magazines), smaller than that and you’re getting into compacts that are meant to be more easily concealable (which itself has its own risk)
I’m fine with restrictions that make sense, but trying to say that full size pistols (with magazines >10 rounds) are “high capacity” and “not commonly used for self defense” is just patently false
I don’t really care what they call it, but nobody (other than mass shooters) needs to be walking around with 11+ bullets loaded. The common arguments against gun control–hunting, self defense, collecting, target shooting–are all totally unaffected by limiting the capacity of magazines.
If I had my way, people would be limited to low capacity mags and bolt action rifles. This is the sensible and legal middle ground between banning everything and banning nothing.
Now maybe you think the limit should be 15 instead of 10, or something, but those 5 extra rounds are potentially 5 more lives taken or ruined (not counting the ripple effects on family and community) in a mass shooting scenario. To me, that’s incredibly difficult to justify.
I wish they would stop calling standard capacity rifle magazines “high capacity” to try to play them up as being in some way unusual
10 rounds isn’t even really standard for pistols, basically every full size pistol comes with a magazine larger than that (for reference, the most common US police duty pistols, the Glock 19 and 22, come from the factory with 15 round magazines), smaller than that and you’re getting into compacts that are meant to be more easily concealable (which itself has its own risk)
I’m fine with restrictions that make sense, but trying to say that full size pistols (with magazines >10 rounds) are “high capacity” and “not commonly used for self defense” is just patently false
I don’t really care what they call it, but nobody (other than mass shooters) needs to be walking around with 11+ bullets loaded. The common arguments against gun control–hunting, self defense, collecting, target shooting–are all totally unaffected by limiting the capacity of magazines.
If I had my way, people would be limited to low capacity mags and bolt action rifles. This is the sensible and legal middle ground between banning everything and banning nothing.
Now maybe you think the limit should be 15 instead of 10, or something, but those 5 extra rounds are potentially 5 more lives taken or ruined (not counting the ripple effects on family and community) in a mass shooting scenario. To me, that’s incredibly difficult to justify.
I’ll be ok with these laws when they apply to the police as well, but that’s not how this or any other bill has been written so far.
Police and military please, either citizens can handle more than 10 round magazines or they can’t, the state shouldn’t have a monopoly on them
So three dudes are able to completely outgun 2 cops that roll up to your domestic disturbance?