Why We Must Ban High-Capacity Gun Magazines

[MikePapa1]

Why We Must Ban High-Capacity Gun Magazines

Posted: 04/ 6/11 01:59 PM ET

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We were honored last week to join James and Sarah Brady as they marked the 30th anniversary of a tragic moment in history - the shooting of President Reagan.

James Brady, who took one of the bullets meant for the president, has since dedicated his life to preventing gun violence.

It was in his name that Congress came together to pass the Brady law to require a background check for gun purchases.

It is time for Congress to come together once again to eliminate senseless violence and save lives.

We're determined to ban high-capacity gun magazines like the one Jared Lee Loughner allegedly used in Tucson, Arizona, when he was able to fire 31 bullets in 15 seconds because he supersized his Glock 19 handgun with a high-capacity magazine.

Loughner's massacre ended only when he stopped to reload and bystanders wrestled him to the ground. If he had used a standard magazine and was forced to reload earlier, some of his victims might have been spared.

High-capacity magazines -- devices that dramatically boost a weapon's firing power -- were prohibited from 1994 until 2004, when the federal assault weapons ban was in place. Since its lapse, high-capacity magazines have become easily accessible, turning up on shelves in gun shops and even some sporting goods stores.

The rest is here:

Sen. Frank Lautenberg: Why We Must Ban High-Capacity Gun Magazines

Frankly, I'm not sure who is the most stupid: Lautenberg or McCarthy. Looks like a toss up to me.

[RobertNashville]

You know, sometimes with I read stuff like this, the logic used is so twisted OR the lack of logic used is so vast that I simply don't know how to respond except to say "stupid is as stupid does".

Then again...

I also recall the recent thread on this very forum where a slight majority of the "pro-gun" people who frequent these electronic pages were perfectly "okay" with background checks despite the complete lack of evidence that the background checks had ever done anything substantial to keep guns out of criminal hands.

If "pro-gun" folks can be so easily taken in by the gun grabbers should we be at all surprised at the stupidity of folks like Sarah Brady and her ilk?

Edited April 6, 2011 by RobertNashville

[eapking]

Three 10 round mags almost equals one 33 round mag. So?

[mikegideon]

The Virginia Tech shooting dwarfed the Tuscon shooting, and he used AWB compliant mags in a Glock 19 to do it.

[eapking]

The Virginia Tech shooting dwarfed the Tuscon shooting, and he used AWB compliant mags in a Glock 19 to do it.

So there ya go. End of the Brady's argument.

[mikegideon]

So there ya go. End of the Brady's argument.

They're deaf, as well as stupid

[Oh Shoot]

The Virginia Tech shooting dwarfed the Tuscon shooting, and he used AWB compliant mags in a Glock 19 to do it.

Mike, he bought the G19 in 2007, 3 years after AWB expired, so presumably it had 15 round mags, eh?

- OS

[Erik88]

Mike, he bought the G19 in 2007, 3 years after AWB expired, so presumably it had 15 round mags, eh?

- OS

ya but word around the playground is that he bought the mags on Ebay and they were 10 rounders. This is supposedly why ebay no longer allows anyone to sell magazines.

And I heard this on the internet so it must be true!!

[Oh Shoot]

ya but word around the playground is that he bought the mags on Ebay and they were 10 rounders. This is supposedly why ebay no longer allows anyone to sell magazines.

And I heard this on the internet so it must be true!!

According to Wiki and another site, the extra mags he bought on eBay were for the Walther P22 he also used.

And the Glock he bought new would almost certainly have come with 15 rounder or do they come with 2?

- OS

[Erik88]

should have come with 2 mags. Interesting about the Walther. I was not aware of that

[Jonnin]

Wifes glock 19 came with 2 10 rounders, ban era. A week later I bought 2 15 round pre-ban mags. Ban cost me like $50 extra bucks, and thats all it did was line some guy's pocket a bit. Pointless and stupid.

[mikegideon]

Mike, he bought the G19 in 2007, 3 years after AWB expired, so presumably it had 15 round mags, eh?

- OS

I read it somewhere. I'll have to dig

Well, my apologies. He had some 15 round mags. Don't remember where I read it now.

Edited April 7, 2011 by mikegideon

[Oh Shoot]

I read it somewhere. I'll have to dig

Well, my apologies. He had some 15 round mags. Don't remember where I read it now.

No biggie, just that this got me all interested in reading about the thing again, sorry for the sidetrack, folks.

It's not clear to me from reading just how many rounds were fired from each gun. The .22 of course only had 10 rounders, just as now. And Erik, it's pretty well nailed down that those were .22 mags he bought on eBay, they even know the seller of two of them.

The best accounts do seem to be on Wiki, though, but neither is totally clear, although the first one does indeed mention the 15 round mags, as you say.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_massacre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seung-Hui_Cho

- OS

Edited April 7, 2011 by OhShoot
added links and etc

[lunarpowered]

He "supersized" his Glock? Did he get it from McDonalds or something?