Posted on 02/07/2015 7:45:17 AM PST by Rusty0604
On February 4, Representative Elizabeth Esty (D-CT-5th Dist.) introduced a bill to ban “high capacity” ammunition magazines, and it was supported by 100 Democrat cosponsors.
Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) introduced the same legislation to the Senate. And Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said Democrats are starting with magazine bans, but the expanded background checks championed by Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) will be “reintroduced in this Congress as well.”
According to the Hartford Courant, Democrats believe limiting ammunition magazine capacity to 10 rounds will reduce mass public firearm-related incidents. Democrats did not bring up Elliot Rodger, who complied with California law and only used 10-round magazines in his attack on innocents in Santa Barbara on May 23.
The next day, May 24, Breitbart News reported that Rodger made up for smaller magazines by simply buying more of them. He had over 40 ten-round magazines in his possession when he carried out his heinous act.
Nevertheless, Democrats are pushing for a “high capacity” ban, which they categorize as part of “common sense gun safety reforms.”
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They're just throwing a bone to their small but vocal "Moms Demand Action" constituency so they can say they tried to do something. They know it won't go anywhere. They just want to get the election-losing gun control stuff out of the way so people can forget about it before the campaign season ramps up again.
Congressional Republicans are doing the same thing with abortion bills.
Elliot Rodger stabbed most of his victims. He didn’t need any of those extra mags.
Why would a man who is about to kill a bunch of innocent people worry about breaking the laws regarding magazine capacity? Isn’t murder already against the law?
Part of 2016— “See?? Republicans want your school to be shot up and your kids murdered.”
Anything over about 500 rounds (depending upon specific cartridge type) gets to be sort of heavy. So maybe these large capacity magazines should have some sort of warning regarding possible back injury if handled improperly.
Sums a lot of the arguments up nicely.
Representative Elizabeth Esty (D-CT-5th Dist., do you own a firearm of any type?
No? Then who the hell are you to tell someone that does what magazines they can have for their firearms?
Piss off...
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