Shared from Bill Cawthon, Author and consultant on Second Amendment issues.
One of the cases currently vying for certiorari is Ocean State Tactical v. Rhode Island, a challenge to Rhode Island’s confiscatory ban on magazines holding more than ten cartridges. Unlike other laws, which grandfathered in magazines owned prior to the law”s effective date, the Rhode Island statute prohibits the possession of “large-capacity” magazines regardless of when they were acquired.
The whole magazine ban idea is supposedly based on a claim most civilian defensive gun uses involved a small number of rounds (2-3), making a ten-round magazine more than adequate for self-defense.
As typical for these laws, law enforcement officers were exempt despite the fact well-documented official evidence showed the number of rounds expended in officer-involved shootings to be about 7.56. Based on the reasoning used to justify magazine bans, cops, troopers, deputies should also be limited to ten-round magazines.
Like the bans on evil black rifles, large-capacity magazines were linked to mass shootings but the gun control faithful are at a loss when informed magazines capable of holding more than ten cartridges had been available for nearly six decades before August 1966, when the University of Texas Tower sniper used a surplus M1 carbine. So where were the mass shootings between 1907 and 1966?
Another bone we have to pick with the gun grabbers is their claim magazines are accessories. Magazines, even detachable ones, are a vital component of any semiautomatic or automatic firearm. A semiautomatic rifle, shotgun, or handgun cannot function properly without a magazine of some sort. Perhaps it would help them to remind them of an alternative name: Self-loading. But that’s probably too much to hope for.
They also forget (ignore) the shooters responsible for the tragedies at Sandy Hook and Parkland. At Sandy Hook, the killer was actually reloading magazines while he was gunning down children and teachers. The murderer who roamed the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School reportedly used ten-round magazines because he was worried about the reliability of larger magazines.
Magazine bans are just another of the worthless measures touted by gun control, despite the fact they don’t live up to the promises made for them.
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