NO WAY, NO HOW. NO BANS, NO FURTHER RESTRICTIONS.
Firearms manufacturing and sales are already the most heavily regulated industry in the US. Does any one seriously think a criminal or madman intent on causing mayhem gives a flying crap about a mag ban or any other law? They’re about to commit capital murder. Why would they give a flip about any gun laws they may also be violating.
If they want a 30-round mag, even if they can’t buy one, they could acquire one of the tens or hundreds of millions already in existence. Oh, of course, the pols will make it illegal to sell or transfer existing magazines. Why didn’t I think of that? Yeah, I’m sure the next person contemplating mass murder won’t dare violate that law. And even if all mags went “poof” and disappeared, ITS A FRIGGING METAL OR PLASTIC BOX WITH A SPRING IN IT. Ain’t hard to make one (or smuggle them in - I’m sure China would be glad to help that black market).
And does anyone really think lack of standard capacity magazines would have limited the carnage at Newtown? The kids were sitting ducks with no adult able to shoot back to defend them. The killer could have used a bolt action .22 against those defenseless young children.
The entire hand-wringing, hyperbolic, lie-filled political and media circus over more gun control is nauseating.
/rant
It has NEVER been about those kids. Or Columbine, or Aurora, or Virginia Tech. Ever.
It's about totalism. Total control, total power, total despotism. Sic semper tyrannis!