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Along with scary black rifles, gun-grabbers are also fixated on what are mistakenly called “High Capacity Magazines.” These in their minds is any magazine capable of holding more rounds than some arbitrary number, usually 10, than the mag was designed for. Many common handguns, for example, have magazines that can handle 17 or more, and thirty round mags are pretty standard for the AR platform. <\/p>\n
“Who needs to carry so many bullets?” they ask. I would point out police officers are not usually limited to mag capacity, and can expect a rapid response if help is needed, in the form of other police officers and their hi cap mags. Harry Homeowner, however, is now limited to the number of rounds at his disposal when confronted by an unknown number of Bad People, and the Police are on the way. <\/p>\n
The hi cap fallacy was displayed when the tragic (and preventable!) shooting occurred at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where a melt-down took an AR-15 and murdered 17 students. Why bring this up? The shooter (I’ll not post his name) used 10 round magazines, as the 30 round mags wouldn’t fit in his backpack.<\/p>\n
OK, off my soapbox. Poetrooper sends us a link about, as you may infer from the title, magazine capacity limitations having little effect on gun crimes.<\/p>\n
Poetrooper<\/strong><\/p>\n By AWR Hawkins The study was headed by Boston University School of Public Health\u2019s Michael Siegel and another listed study author was Harvard gun control advocate David Hemenway.<\/p>\n The study, The Impact of State Firearm Laws on Homicide and Suicide Deaths in the USA, 1991\u20132016: a Panel Study, isolated four states to study ten different types of gun control to see if certain gun controls were successful in reducing homicide and\/or suicide rates. Via their research, they discovered that \u201chigh-capacity\u201d magazine and \u201cassault weapons\u201d bans do not lower homicide rates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Thanks, Poe! The rest of the article may be viewed here: Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nA study on state-level gun control laws in the U.S. shows that bans on \u201chigh-capacity\u201d magazines and \u201cassault weapons\u201d do not lower homicide rates.<\/p>\n