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In reply to the discussion: My Case Against Assault Weapons [View all]CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)If it proves politically impossible to band assault weapons, we should at least ban high capacity magazines and clips should limited to only 11 to 13 rounds - the number carried by many handguns. Their have already been proposed laws calling for a period or maybe 6 months where the government would buy back all high capacity magazines from gun owners. After that period of time it would be a crime punishable by a year in jail to possess unlawful magazines with nice little reward for anyone responsible for turning in law breakers.
Since we been told repeatedly for years that responsible gun owners are all law abiding Americans, surely they will turn in their oversize magazines without problems, because as conservatives are found of saying, we are a country of laws, even if we don't like all of them. Magazines with over 11 to 13 clips certainly aren't needed for hunting. Clip sizes used for hunting are already regulated in many state to even fewer rounds. Experienced gun owners replying to my post have testified that a clip containing 11 rounds should be more than adequate to defend one's home and family from intruders or the gun owners should spend more time on the range.
So were is the deprivation - I can think of only one for law abiding abiding citizens - the expensive thrill of blowing though through thirty or more rounds of ammunition at a gun range in a few seconds or less. On the positive side the law might not get all of the high capacity magazines off of the streets, but it will drastically reduce the number that could fall into the hands of lunatics and and home grown terrorists. Had such a law been in place, Adam Lanza would have probably been able to kill fewer children in Sandy Hook Elementary. If you don't think that is important, consider if the child saved was your own.