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Just reported. Remind me again why high-capacity magazines are legal? Is there any non-mass-murder scenario where it is necessary to get 30 rounds off without reloading?
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Imagine having to reload and waiting that time for more skeet shooting. It's a horror only a fascist regime would impose on Responsible Gun Owners(TM).
Kingofalldems
(38,459 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Sometimes there are a lot of deer running around. How can you shoot all of them with a rifle?
villager
(26,001 posts)n/t
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)"whooo that's an elusive little creature"
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)I mean, have these gun grabbers ever seen Zulu Dawn? The black people come in swarms to get you. You need thirty rounds at least to fend them off!
RomneyLies
(3,333 posts)None.
First thing on the choppoing block should be the high capacity magazines. Ten rounds is way more than enough. Make the manufacture, sale, or possession of such magazines a federal felony with a mandatory minimum sentence of five years per magazine.
jpak
(41,758 posts)It's called mass murder
yup
Kaleva
(36,312 posts)Personally, I think 5 round mags ought to be the limit for long guns. As for handguns, the mag should not extend past the bottom of the grip.
RomneyLies
(3,333 posts)Yavin4
(35,443 posts)They don't make as much noise.
Kingofalldems
(38,459 posts)to take my guns!!1!!!
Gin
(7,212 posts)Imagine the effects of seeing those small first grade bodies all shot up...i am not trying to be
crass....And..... I know that wont happen..... but it would have an impact.
Shock and awe...american style.
intaglio
(8,170 posts)but you'll need a strong stomach
Bonhomme Richard
(9,000 posts)you come to the conclusion that they will face one of two scenarios......Government takeover (think Red Dawn) holding of the soldiers in a massive gun battle or attacked by a crazed drug induced zombie/person that won't go down unless they put 20 hollow point, high velocity rounds in them.
There are pages upon pages in forums that deal with velocity/impact/damage studies.
I have come to the conclusion that most that carry when they go shopping is to protect themselves from other carriers that have gone over the edge.
WooWooWoo
(454 posts)I'd imagine.
It would be really tedius to target shoot and have to reload after every five rounds.
dogman
(6,073 posts)Or should be. It would be simple to make a single round that could be activated by the firing pin to activate a laser that could be tracked for accuracy. You could eliminate noise and air pollution and save money.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)The Army really wanted that to work...turns out the training was considerably less effective. MILES gear is still used, but it requires blanks to activate
dogman
(6,073 posts)We shot each other with bb-guns to condition us to pull the trigger on another human. You would want to condition troops for the actual sound, smell, and recoil. I'm talking about target practice for accuracy purposes.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)Single aimed slow fire maybe, but the noise and recoil matter if you are doing anything else.
New shooters using real ammo may develop a flinch when they start with major caliber handguns which needs to be trained around. Can't do that with lasers. That said, dry firing is considered a good way to build muscle memory.
I have some laser training rounds and some times use them to demo things, but they are not really useful, especially with beginners.
Liberal Gramma
(1,471 posts)WooWooWoo
(454 posts)but realistically, it would not.
axetogrind
(118 posts)I would outlaw those. No more hi capacity mags. Limit rifle mags to 10 rounds and handgun mags to what the manufacturer designed the gun for.
Jeneral2885
(1,354 posts)give 10 rounds? Who are you going to shoot?
axetogrind
(118 posts)10 round mags were allowed for new man. during the first AWB. It's a good number.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)There is no reason anyone needs a 30 round clip for personal use......
NONE
Jeneral2885
(1,354 posts)or sub-people whne they misread constitutions or the Bible and make false claims.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)they'll take a mile." The "inch" being high-capacity assault rifles and the feared "mile" meaning handgun registration and gun responsibility. It also has a whole lot to do with corporate profits, congressional enablers with "interests", the military-industrial complex and lots of Shadows that go bump in the night.
It's the murky place of non-definition between "War" and "Murder". It's mostly financial ... tinged by political and cultural, sometimes religious intrigue. No logic. The NRA is the cover of said murky place.
Berserker
(3,419 posts)Guns as many here know. I do not now or ever have had a need for 30 round mags. I have had arguments with NRA members about this sort of thing and no I am not a member of that right wing organization. I do think there is a limit to what a civilian should be able to possess and still maintain our 2A rights. One good thing is most of these mags jam and they suck anyway.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)63. After reading a lot of insane posts the last couple days
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Posts like dropping bombs from drones on gun owner's homes. Referring to gun owners as nuts, terrorists and basically putting on a lynch mob like display against anyone and everyone who's a gun owner. And these posts are cheered and recommended and remind me of the lunatic fringe from the right such as Glenn Beck, Alex Jones, FreeRepublic, etc. with the only difference being on the opposite side of the political spectrum. But nevertheless just as crazy. As a result I have concluded that most of you here are equally as crazy and even though there's an economic risk element I have further concluded that it is imperative in the next election(s) to vote Republican to maintain some sort of counter balance to your craziness.
Very unfortunate. n/t
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For a clear minded and well thought out post. The craziness that has been displayed in this forum has been unlike anything I have seen in 9 years that I have been a member. The hate filled lunatic fringe also exists in our party and has been clearly displayed for the world to see.
Another gungeoneer who outs themselves after years of pretending. I sort of wish I was surprised, but I'm not.
malaise
(269,063 posts)Guess that large alimony provided some serious shopping money
2on2u
(1,843 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)In all their arguments for self-defense lurk the black mob, the slave revolt.
We are not that far progressed.
2on2u
(1,843 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)us to become raving homicidal maniacs with them. Maybe a re-think is in order.
Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)Banning them previously was "useless legislation" because they "always jam up" after the first few rounds.
No doubt the reason he needed multiple ones was for that very reason!
Renew Deal
(81,866 posts)That's about it.
Igel
(35,320 posts)One must, it seems, justify having things be legal. The burden of proof is on those wanting things permitted.
Are we a country where everything not explicitly banned is permitted, or a country where everything not explicitly permitted is banned?
Or is a matter of personal choice of the enlightened?
On edit: A lot of bans I find ludicrous. The AWB was one such thing, done based upon the rigorous logic of feeling than any sort of actual thinking. Many of the TSA requirements are likewise loony. A few months after 9/11 I had to travel by air. I was standing there reading the regs on what could and couldn't be taken on board.
I was standing there with my travel guitar, a solid piece of tropical hardwood wood as long as a baseball bat and rather heavier, with nice points carved into one end and metal pieces sticking out just right for doing serious damage. One or two blows to the head with it would be enough to kill somebody. The metal pieces that attached to it had moderately sharp ends and if held and thrust into somebody abdomen would also be unhealthful. Ahead of me people's possessions were confiscated. Fingernail clippers. A bottle of shampoo. Toothpaste. A racketball racket. You could fingernail clip or racketball racket somebody all day and do much less damage. They were confiscated and the passengers rebuked for daring to carry such lethal, banned items.
They looked at my lethal travel guitar and said that it was a musical instrument. I could take it on the plane. It and its internal electronics were permitted. Suddenly I felt rather less safe.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)needs some sort of justification for being legal.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)He taped two magazines together. This gives you 60 rounds when you flip the magazine over and reinsert it.
You don't watch old Vietnam War movies?