Simple poll about mag capacity.

Would A 10-round Mag Capacity Limit Help With Mass Shootings

  • Yes

    Votes: 4 3.8%

  • No

    Votes: 94 90.4%

  • Maybe

    Votes: 6 5.8%
  • Total voters
    104
  • Poll closed .
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Do you guys think a 10 round mag capacity limit would help lessen the damage from mass shootings. The ban I’m talking about would NOT grandfather existing mags. Would mean all 11+ mags are now illegal to own and manufacture.
 
Slappy White said:
Do you guys think a 10 round mag capacity limit would help lessen the damage from mass shootings. The ban I’m talking about would NOT grandfather existing mags. Would mean all 11+ mags are now illegal to own and manufacture.
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And so everyone will turn them in, including criminals ... oh wait, you've just made 200 million or so more criminals :what:
 
Honestly, sometimes I think it would simply because I believe the availability would dwindle. Other times I think mag swaps can take less than a second. I just don’t know. I just wish there was something that could be done without punishing regular citizens or infringing on our rights.
 
Absolutely not. You can carry a lot of magazines and with even a minimum of practice one can learn to reload any gun fast.

Not to mention that nuts will find a way to accomplish their ends no matter what. Bombs and other means are readily available that have nothing to do with guns of any kind.

Violence happens and when a lunatic decides to hurt people, they decide to do so because they are a lunatic. The mechanism is the least important part of that equation.
 
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I can take a 150 year old SXS shotgun and a bag full of buckshot and put more projectiles down range in far less time than an AR with a 30 round magazine. Takes about as long to reload with 2 more shells as changing out a 30 round AR magazine and then start over. You don't need hi-tech gear and hi capacity magazines to gun down unarmed people in crowded conditions. The advantage of having more ammo is being able to better defend yourself from multiple attackers.
 
When I shot USPSA and switched from Limited to Limited 10, my stage times did not significantly increase

Think about it.

30 rounds with two 15 round magazines vs three 10 round magazines won't change the outcome of bullets fired as gunner will keep shooting at victims after mag change.

We are talking about "seconds" to change magazines which won't change the outcome of shooting very much.
 
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Balrog said:
Only a moron would think a magazine ban is a solution.
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So constructive! Tell me more!
For the record, I don’t support ANY new gun regs. I was just asking if folks thought it could lessen the damage from mass shootings. Sometimes I think it could, but where to we draw the line? Would giving up some more of our second amendment rights be worth a life? 5 lives? 100 lives? That’s my point. I have no answers. Just wondering what you all thought and if we had any ideas for solutions.
 
Slappy White said:
Would giving up some more of our second amendment rights be worth a life? 5 lives? 100 lives? That’s my point.
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Here’s the problem with that line of thinking and even asking the question.

One, giving up some of our 2A rights won’t save lives. It’ll just infringe on the rights of law abiding gun owners.

Two, the gun banning and gun limiting politicians know that. They are interested in taking away ALL our 2A rights. It’s about control for them, not saving lives.
 
I think it’s a legit question.

Semi auto rifles with standard cap mags are simply more effective than anything else out there. If you limited people to just 10 rounds I still feel they would still be 99% as effective. If this had happened with an SKS rifle I don’t think the body count would have changed much.

Unfortunately for us there is no easy way out of this mess. Over the past few decades we as a nation left behind the virtues of Christianity and replaced it with nihilism. And that’s coming from me, an avowed atheist.

Dan
 
I read this question, And interpreted it backwards, thinking a 10 rnd mag would potentially limit bystanders ability to help so my yes vote, should be changed to NO we all know any shooter of this type is not going to follow any type of mag limit law.
 
AlexanderA said:
As a practical matter they would be grandfathered because there's no way to enforce such a ban. They just wouldn't be flaunted openly. If you think people would turn in their mags you're dreaming.
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The only thinking with that would be limiting availability.
 
Shane in MT said:
I think the punishment for these shooters should be to throw them into a rattlesnake pit, or alligator pit, and publicly televise the punishment.

I believe a harsh consequence is the best deterrent at this point.
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These mass shooter do not expect to survive the crimes they commit. They plan to die. That’s why a lot of them commit suicide before being apprehended. What you suggest would not be a deterrent.

Crazy people don’t have the same logic the rest of us do. Their minds are twisted and warped. Never assume they will react the way a sane person would to the same stimulus.
 
Two mags are taped together, forming a 90 degree "L" shape, Israeli-style. Other 10-rd. mags are carried in pockets or a vest..

Without a citizen who could be armed and able to fight back, or with no extremely brave person running up from the psycho's main blind spot to slam them to the ground, mag capacity makes little difference, if any. People are stunned, panicked, running.

The premise here seems to be that hundreds of thousands (or more) of normal capacity magzines would somehow be made to disappear, or would steadily become inoperative.
And this-by simply passing another law?
 
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I have a better question or questions and not so PC.

Would having actual prison sentences in actual prisons deter mass shootings?
Would actually having psych hospitals that were once plentiful in this country where people with serious issues could be housed and possibly treated help deter mass shootings?

Would actually following the premise of the founding of this country and making the words Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness mean something rather than chipping away at our God given rights to appease those that will eventually be our oppressors?

If sitting around singing Kumbaya worked things would be all sunshine and snackie cakes now wouldn’t it? But instead the morons that all sat around singing Kumbaya 40 and 50 years ago have spread their seed and tainted the well and lookie what we have now...

I, for one, am sick of giving in to this stupidity. Don’t take the bait. Conversations like this are moronic.
 
Pat Riot said:
I have a better question or questions and not so PC.

Would having actual prison sentences in actual prisons deter mass shootings?
Would actually having psych hospitals that were once plentiful in this country where people with serious issues could be housed and possibly treated help deter mass shootings?

Would actually following the premise of the founding of this country and making the words Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness mean something rather than chipping away at our God given rights to appease those that will eventually be our oppressors?

If sitting around singing Kumbaya worked things would be all sunshine and snackie cakes now wouldn’t it? But instead the morons that all sat around singing Kumbaya 40 and 50 years ago have spread their seed and tainted the well and lookie what we have now...

I, for one, am sick of giving in to this stupidity. Don’t take the bait. Conversations like this are moronic.
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I agree with everything you said except the part about conversation being moronic. Nothing wrong with intelligent, informative discussion. No one, including myself, is calling for any new regs. Just asking for ideas. I only asked the poll question because it was the only regulation that I could even remotely think maybe could have some ability to reduce the body count from mass shootings. I just like hearing fellow firearms enthusiasts opinions and ideas.
 
460Shooter said:
These mass shooter do not expect to survive the crimes they commit. They plan to die. That’s why a lot of them commit suicide before being apprehended. What you suggest would not be a deterrent.

Crazy people don’t have the same logic the rest of us do. Their minds are twisted and warped. Never assume they will react the way a sane person would to the same stimulus.
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I get what you are saying, but I can think of a few who are still among the living. The church shooter from back east, florida school shooter, this El Paso shooter quickly come to mind.

They should all be fed to the gators. Wouldn't stop them all, but it would some.
 
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