Free high-capacity magazines given out at gun rights rally
Source: Associated Press
Updated 3:59 pm, Saturday, March 31, 2018
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) Gun rights supporters protesting gun restriction legislation have gathered outside the Vermont Statehouse to urge the governor not to sign the bill.
Police estimate hundreds of protesters turned out Saturday to show their opposition a day after the Vermont legislature passed the gun restrictions package.
Protesters were giving away 1,200 30-round magazines. The legislation would ban high-capacity magazines and rapid-fire devices known as bump stocks, in addition to raising the legal age. It also would expand background checks for private gun sales.
People who own high-capacity magazines before the law takes effect can keep them.
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Aristus
(66,462 posts)There's no way those vile scumbags will ever be able to convince me they need high-capacity magazines for hunting...
Locrian
(4,522 posts)how do you expect them to cosplay without all those big beautiful magazines?!
hack89
(39,171 posts)A 5 round limit is common.
And I've never encountered a hunter who needed more than a few rounds to hunt, save for a few poachers and maybe varmint shooters. Most of us hunters here use a bolt-action rifle like our fathers taught us.
The only people I've encountered arguing for high-cap mags are target shooters who claim to hate reloading.
Which is kind of like needing more toilet paper now so you dont have to wipe your ass after your next deuce.
It just doesn't work that way.
Just ban bullets.
hack89
(39,171 posts)But I think you really know that.
GeorgeHayduke
(1,227 posts)😉
hack89
(39,171 posts)GeorgeHayduke
(1,227 posts)I'll have my spicy Sunday V8 and wait for the Mariners game.
hack89
(39,171 posts)Their first year was when I was in high school. Same with the Seahawks. Being a Seahawk fan in Patriots country can be interesting.
Right now I am watching the Bruins. Can't wait until Seattle gets their NHL team.
GeorgeHayduke
(1,227 posts)So I know what it's like to be a fan in a strange land. Especially Cubs territory.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Make those magazines real expensive to fill up and empty.
hack89
(39,171 posts)They want to make money after all.
rgbecker
(4,834 posts)Took a lot of those fucking killers off the street.
hack89
(39,171 posts)Besides, there is already a federal tax on arms and amno.
rgbecker
(4,834 posts)Is that your point?
My point was that the cigarette tax, which has raised the price of a 20 cent pack of cigarettes to $10, has saved a lot of lives. People rethink how they spend their money when the amounts become significant. RE: Cost of gasoline, electricity, hamburger.
hack89
(39,171 posts)your stated desire to make ammo so expensive as to make many people unable to afford it is an illegal tax. The current tax, which has been in place for decades, is reasonable and not a burden.
Cigarettes are not a constitutional right. Big difference - any law restricting a right has to be the narrowest scope possible. Your tax is not narrow in scope and will negatively impact millions of Americans.
Throck
(2,520 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)dchill
(38,532 posts)Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
spin
(17,493 posts)For example:
Colt AR-15
The Colt AR-15 is a lightweight, 5.56×45mm, magazine-fed, gas-operated semi-automatic rifle. It was designed to be manufactured with the extensive use of aluminum alloys and synthetic materials. It is a semi-automatic version of the United States military M16 rifle. Colt's Manufacturing Company currently uses the AR-15 trademark for its line of semi-automatic AR-15 rifles that are marketed to civilian and law-enforcement customers.
***snip***
Magazines
The Colt AR-15 uses 20- or 30-round staggered-column detachable box magazines. Low-capacity 5- or 10-round magazines are also available to comply with legal restrictions, for hunting, for benchrest shooting or where a larger magazine can be inconvenient.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_AR-15
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)regulated some more...and more...and more...and about time everyone realize "regulated" is the second word in the second...so, duh.
So scary the NRA erased the the the first words of the sacred text on their nation nap HW plaque honoring the holy writing. Why is that?
spin
(17,493 posts)The NRA Story
From Rifle Club to Extremist Gun Rights Lobby
How the National Rifle Association evolved from a Shooting Club to a Terrorist Organization
***snip***
In 1976, Carter was the head of the NRAs Institute for Legislative Action (ILA), which had been established just the year before on the advice of its allies in Congress. Its mission was to fend off gun-control legislation coming from both state and federal lawmakers. Maxwell Rich and the other NRA leaders treated the ILA like an unwelcome stepchild and limited its funding and operations.
When the NRA leadership became aware of the threat from Carters Federation of the NRA, they staged what became known as the Weekend Massacre in November of 1976, firing 80 employees associated with Carters new guard, including the entire staff of the ILA. For months, the Carter cadre secretly plotted their revenge and hijacked the NRAs annual meeting in Cincinnati in May 1977 the meeting which had been moved from Washington, DC, to protest its new strict gun control law.
Using the NRAs parliamentary rules, the rebels interrupted the agenda from the floor and revised how the Board of Directors was chosen, recommitted the NRA to fighting gun control and restored the ILA. By 4 AM the next morning, Harlon Carter had became the NRAs new executive director and his protégé, Neal Knox, was head of the ILA. Carter cancelled the planned move of the NRA national headquarters to Colorado Springs, and he changed the organizations motto on its DC headquarters, selectively editing the Second Amendment to reflect a non-compromising militancy, The Right Of The People To Keep And Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed.
Immediately the announcement went forth: The National Rifle Association is cutting back on its conservation and wildlife programs to devote most of its energies to fighting gun control.
https://riversong.wordpress.com/the-nra-story/
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)exposes the hypocrisy and false arguments in a nutshell.
iluvtennis
(19,871 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)to gun control supporters so they thumb their noses like "we'll show you". My first graders had about the same level of maturity.
tomp
(9,512 posts)Where did the money come from?
NickB79
(19,258 posts)Cheap 30-rd AR magazines cost $10 each.
samir.g
(835 posts)paleotn
(17,959 posts)Buy back and / or confiscate. Period. Grandfathering existing high capacity magazines defeats the purpose of the legislation.
DetroitLegalBeagle
(1,926 posts)Magazines aren't required to be stamped with a serial number or manufacturing date, which itself wouldn't matter much as hundreds of millions if not billions of magazines are out there. There is no way to tell which magazine was possessed before or after the law goes into effect. This is basically just a in state sales ban, which if it goes like how Colorado's did, will be widely ignored(an associate attorney at the firm I am at has family in Colorado. Says high capacity magazines are still sold despite the law, with most law enforcement basically ignoring it. He says the state may repeal it soon.)
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)not obeyed" is arguably the most laughable of all. Just sad.
EL34x4
(2,003 posts)...as 30 rd magazines --for "aesthetic purposes" of course. They looked just like 30 rd magazines and were constructed the same way except they had a little metal tab bent up to stop the feed ramp and prevent more than 10 rounds from being inserted.
It didn't take much ingenuity to figure out that if you took the magazine apart and broke off that little metal tab, you'd now have a perfectly-functioning 30 round magazine!
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)samir.g
(835 posts)The next step needs to be a turn-in of grandfathered magazines.
The cool part here is that they won't have to be compensated for a free magazine
hack89
(39,171 posts)The government is not that stupid.
samir.g
(835 posts)NickB79
(19,258 posts)Almost impossible to track.