Reaction to 30 round magazines being banned

I think this guy might be a teabagger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aApZ6kwEutw

...in anticipation of a ban driving up prices.

of intellectual content it sounds like it was made by a frequent poster here...












yup

He went to a local gun shop to get some 22 round magazines for his GLOCK (40 S&W) and the counter guy told him they couldn't keep them in stock.

He said the guy told him they were going out the door as fast as they came in.

I guess you could call it the Carolyn McCarthy Stimulus package

I guess in a binary world that's alot.......

I seem to recall just off the top of my head that the incidents at Virginia Tech and North Hollywood all used high capacity mags.

all 10 rounders

The "top of your head" is wrong.

The VT shooting, NIU and IIRC all the other high profile shooting incidents all used flush fit, standard capacity magazines. North Hollywood used "real" select fire AK-47s and 30 rounds is the standard magazine size.

But if you can find several that used 30 round handgun magazines we're all open to correction. We'll wait here for your results.

Illegally converted automatic weapons are good for a 10 year stint in federal prison.

At VT Cho used a Glock 19 with standard capacity 15 round magazines, and a Walther P22 with standard capacity 10 round magazines.

North Hollywood - 14 years ago, BTW (which hardly qualifies, IMO, as "often") - is a different kettle of fish entirely. There the assailants had 4 illegally modified automatic-fire rifles, a semi-automatic rifle all using high-capacity magazines, and a semi-auto pistol (using standard capactiy magazines).

People with aggressive tendencies use a lot of things.

See my signature...

because a 10-round limit bans standard factory magazines for popular civilian guns, going back to the fricking 1860's for civilian rifles and the 1930's for civilian pistols.* Restricting all 11 to 30 round magazines as "high capacity" is as disingenuous as restricting all 11 to 30 week abortions as "late term."

A ban on a quarter billion magazines owned by ~40 million likely voters is just stupid from a political standpoint, even if it had any bearing on violence reduction, which it doesn't.

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*Don't believe me? Google is your friend:

Henry Repeating Rifle (1861), .44 rimfire, capacity 16+1
Winchester Model 1873 (1873), .44-40/.38-40/.32-20/.22 rimfire, capacity 15+1
Evans Repeating Rifle (1873), .44 Evans, capacity 28 or 34
Colt AR-15 (1961), .223 Remington, capacity 20 or 30

Browning P35 (1935), 9x19mm, capacity 13+1 (this gun pretty much defined the modern 9mm)
Beretta 92 (1972), 9x19mm, capacity 15+1
Smith & Wesson Model 59 (1973), capacity 14+1
Glock 17 (1984), 9x19mm, capacity 17+1
Ruger P-85 (1985), 9x19mm, capacity 15+1
Glock 19 (1988), 9x19mm, capacity 15+1
Springfield XD/HS 2000 (1999), 9x19mm, capacity 16+1
Springfield XDM (2008), 9x19mm, capacity 19+1

nor should there be.

Why kill good trees or waste computer memory for such a stupid idea?

They did the same with ammo after Obama was elected. And, it ain't for protection/defense.

Wow, who'd a thought it.

McCarthy pulls her single issue chestnut out of her bottom desk drawer and tries to get it on the docket, the gun control minded media all chime in demanding a magazine ban. So people go out and buy up what's out there. Those murdering savages.

So if stocking up on ammo isn't for protection or defense, are you suggesting an upcoming rash of killings? I mean it couldn't be as simple as we wanted to beat the price increases or something as obvious as that.

Seems to me that if anyone here is obsessed it's gun control people that see conspiracies behind every tree and every gun owner as a mass murderer any minute now .... wait for it .... well pretty soon anyway.

Do you ever write anything that makes sense or is based even vaguely on reality. Or just the usual bumper sticker regurgitation we see from you?

when he said it he was referencing two standard sized magazines on his belt. I know CZ makes a Polymer 40S&W that holds 18 rounds in a standard magazine. Maybe I misunderstood and he meant magazines for his GLOCK 22

between the standard magazine for a handgun and one that it oversize. Not interested in learning either

Every time the people who feel the solution to a single isolated incident involving a firearm is the BAN SOMETHING, shooters run out to buy the item or items.

So because some fools simply mentioned the idea, the sales of standard and high capacity magazines have skyrocketed. This is exactly the opposite of what those who love to ban things want to happen.

I can't think of any time where a ban on an item was successful in accomplishing what it was intended to do. Bans go against basic human nature.

(at least in terms of shelf life) And neither one will ever be cheaper than they are right now.

Tell me again why I shouldn't stock up?

Now it's around $300 and it's got nothing to do with and fantasies you might have. It's got everything to do with supply and demand and two wars being fought. without those wars I could afford to go out and shoot more often. And it really dosen't have a whole lot to do with Obama being elected. I also shoot them out of my standard capacity 30 round mag in my Ar15.

Whatever he drinks.

unless they own said object. I decided to start gifting high cap magazines to people I know who don't have high cap magazines yet.

shall I PM you my address and a list of my high cap magazine needs?

I hear that the U.S. military used a pistol with a 12-round magazine to blow up Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.