Tuscon shooter and mag failure?

All I've heard is he went to reload and was tackled. If someone can give me a link to any mention of if he was on anti depressants, I would be very grateful.

I haven't seen the antis this excited in a long time. For lack of anything else to do, I went to cheaperthandirt and bought 3 of those evil 33 round Glock mags which were on backorder (ch than dirt lets you buy a backordered item). I must not be the only one because midway had them yesterday (more than I wanted to pay) but are now also backordered. The antis realize they're helping sales don't they?

Impossible to know from the description provided. I doubt there was a spring failure.

Sounds like a failure to feed. Perhaps the magazine was not fully inserted. Perhaps he loaded the bullets backward in the magazine.

I've heard the spring can catch on two-part extended mags where the halves attach but a magazine would have to be more than half empty in order for the spring to be exposed to this potential snag. You can see how these are assembled here-



9mm aren't even made this way though to my knowledge.

Not really appropriate to be doing an equipment review of the shooters gear.