Posted on 03/23/2011 7:44:40 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
Today, a Connecticut bill banning “large capacity” magazines will have its first public hearing. Six other states have such bans in effect, though no state has demonstrated its ban has had any effect on crime.
The states disagree on what constitutes “large capacity”: 10 rounds in California, 15 in New Jersey, 20 in Maryland. Connecticut says 10 rounds; its definition of “large capacity” magazines is copied almost word for word from California law. But there is no reason outside bureaucratic whim for one definition over another. People who have such magazines haven’t necessarily gone out to buy them specially — a compact 9mm pistol might come with a 13-round magazine as standard. Anyway, the concept of a “large capacity” magazine is meaningless: capacity depends on the size of the cartridge — a larger caliber means fewer rounds.
This is a typical example of legislators making rules concerning a subject about which they know nothing.
The California law also has something that Connecticut’s version lacks: a grandfather clause. Anyone in California who had a large capacity magazine prior to the law’s enactment was permitted to keep it. And since there is no way to determine when most magazines were made or who bought them, the grandfather clause renders the magazine ban unenforceable. Anyone bent on obtaining such a magazine can still drive to a neighboring state, buy it there, and claim he had it all along.
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Another bill looking for a problem.
Oh, those magazines! I thought this was a green story and they were banning the Sears catalogs the the likes.
But it’s still not good.
Isn’t something like this against freedom of expression as outlined in our US Constitution and Bill of Rights?
You never want an armed government and an unarmed populace. Remember Tienanmen Square.
Just to be sure, they should probably consider sending at least 31 people to confiscate each 30 round magazine...
Did these legislators ever hear of fast reloads?
Next it will be a limitation on magazines.....no more than 10 cartridges allowed on your person. Not only is this an ex post facto law, it clearly violates the 2A.
The fact that this is even being considered is an abomination.
There should be a law passed by someone in congress with cajones enough to do so, that ANY legislator in this nation who puts forth anti-2A legislation will have their armed security removed. Period.
Wouldn’t this also constitute censorship considering it is a magazine, published written material and the SCOTUS has made numerous rulings against censorship.
Limitation on magazines should read limitation on cartridges
We don't need no stinkin' law passed by Congress. We have certain inalienable rights endowed to us by our Creator!
Legislators who pass laws denying us certain rights should lose theirs.
Why would anyone argue with that?
Democrats and Republicans in congress don’t care about the US Constitution so why would you think they care about EX POST FACTO?
CT gun grabber ping.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear LOW CAPACITY arms shall not be infringed.
I agree, but at some point “citizen law” needs to take place. Citizens enforcing their own rights, regardless of what the current establishment dictates. Myself, I’m waiting for the day they rise up on their own accord, but it will have to get very bad before that happens.
The only way to get them is a door-by-door or no-knock warrant. No records on them at all.
Wanna see a civil war erupt ?
Sometimes I fear this might be the only way to return to an acceptable form of governance.
Not necessarily or at least in the way I think you’re talking about. They can do all this a bit at a time w/o much fuss/resistance from the populace. After all the electorate seems to agree w/ the pols since they elected them...right? I think what the pols are hoping for is a high profile case or 2 will scare the remainder of the sheep into giving up their hardware. This coupled w/ the medias blackening of the parties involved completes the picture. Things like this could never happen if the media didn’t supply the smokescreen. In the end I strongly suspect this idea won’t make it into law BUT the fact the pols even considered it is a dire warning to the gun owners in CT. Then again perhaps there are few if any who love their freedoms there...I dont know.
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