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PTWB

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1. I've never really understood the logic of banning standard capacity magazines.
Wed Dec 22, 2021, 11:21 AM
Dec 2021

Detachable magazines are designed to be quick and easy to change. Firing 30 rounds with my Glock 19 takes two magazines (one magazine change, or about 1.5 seconds to change magazines)… with a 10 round magazine restriction, I’d be looking at firing 30 rounds in 3 magazines (two magazine changes, or about 3 seconds to change magazines).

Is there any data that suggests we would save a statistically significant number of lives by reducing standard capacity magazines to low capacity magazines?

I understand the argument that even one life is worth saving, but if we are going to be making that argument, there are many more dangerous substances, chemicals, and activities in our society that we should be banning long before we get to standard capacity magazines.

We do have a gun violence problem in our country but at the root of that problem is systemic oppression of minorities and the impoverished. Societal violence is a socioeconomic problem, not a magazine capacity problem.

I've never really understood the logic of banning standard capacity magazines. PTWB Dec 2021 #1
The problem with your reasoning is that it comes down to AndyS Dec 2021 #4
"Arms" bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 #2
Are you saying that the 2nd amendment shouldn't cover modern arms? PTWB Dec 2021 #3
See? You're interpreting every bit as much as the courts must /nt bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 #5
I was asking what you were trying to say. PTWB Dec 2021 #6
The authors listed freedom of speech, but didn't foresee computers, yagotme Dec 2021 #7
The Internet isn't mentioned in the Constitution, either. PTWB Dec 2021 #8
Shoulder fired rocket launchers and suicide bombers with backpacks are also bearing arms bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 #9
And you can't falsely shout fire in a crowded movie theater. PTWB Dec 2021 #10
Thank you for phrasing that correctly. Dial H For Hero Dec 2021 #11
You're welcome. PTWB Dec 2021 #12
It's sad, though, that this verbiage came out of a terrible decision The Mouth Dec 2021 #16
A shoulder launched rocket would be fun to have/shoot, yagotme Jan 2022 #18
Responding here to the Founders intent. discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2021 #13
Compliment and comment . . . Surf Fishing Guru Dec 2021 #15
Thanks discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2021 #17
I consider this stay a concession . . . Surf Fishing Guru Dec 2021 #14
Vacated and sent back to the courts The Mouth Jul 2022 #19
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