Posted on 04/13/2019 5:44:25 PM PDT by jazusamo
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) is one of the people pushing to keep "high capacity" magazines, anything that holds over 10 rounds, illegal in the Golden State. For one week, Californians had the opportunity to get their hands on these magazines because of a court ruling that overturned the state's ban. One week later, the same judge issued a stay , which meant the ban went back into effect while the lawsuit, Duncan v. Becerra, was settled in court. Any magazines obtained during that week-long period were legal.
Although it's impossible to know exactly how many "high capacity" magazines were during that week, we have a few pieces of evidence that show it was in the millions. Gun stores and ranges couldn't keep the magazines in stock. In fact, some were even having to put limits on the number of magazines a person could buy at one time just to try to keep them in stock for a short period of time.
"Everything was all sold out. I basically took whatever I could get," Chris Puehse, the owner of Foothill Ammo in Shingle Springs, east of Sacramento, told the Daily Mail . "People loved it. It was like we were out of prison and were not treated like bastard stepchildren of the country anymore."
According to Puehse, the magazines he had in stock lasted only a couple hours and that was even with the limits he put in place.
"They disappeared," Puehse said. "They wanted to grab more than I let them, otherwise they would have been gone even faster than a few hours."
Now here's the best part of the entire ordeal.
A few hours before the judge issued the stay, Becerra said California was in danger of becoming 'the wild, wild West for high-capacity magazines," the Daily Mail reported.
"There are those who are now trying to flood the state of California with what were until this decision illegal high-capacity magazines, the type of magazines that are used in firearms to commit the mass shootings that we've seen throughout the country," Becerra said.
Ruger and Palmetto State Arms both diverted all of their in-stock inventory to send to California. For a short period of time, other states couldn't order stock because the companies were focusing solely on the demand from the Golden State (probably because they knew the order wouldn't last very long).
Naturally, gun control advocates ran with the notion that flooding the state with these magazine was a strategic move.
"They [gun rights organizations] have a very specific purpose and intent here to try to set up for the court that these are devices that are very commonly used and possessed," Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence' California legislative affairs director Ari Freilich said.
Don't you just love how people like Becerra make gun owners sound? Anti-gunners are quick to paint gun owners in a certain light:
If you're someone who owns "high capacity" magazines, you must want to commit mass carnage, not hunt or partake in the shooting sports.
If you're someone who advocates for owning "high capacity" magazines, you must be a criminal, not someone who wants to protect his or her own life.
They don't talk to us. They don't listen to us. And they sure as hell don't care about us. They're too busy painting us as something we're not to realize that we value life, love liberty and condemn those who harm others.
They’re not “high capacity”, they’re standard capacity. 30 rounds is the standard magazine for an AR-15.
I prefer the 20 round magazines.
What’s to stop anyone in California from going out of state and buying as many magazines as he wants, bringing them back, and if ever questioned, saying he got them during the time the law was lifted.
Can’t imagine it’s any different than NYS, anything I want I just ship to my PA. address 20 miles away and no problem.
True. Kill somebody with a single shot rifle. They’re as dead as if you did it with a m16 and you’re in heap big trouble. Bad people do bad things. I intend to be ready. Period. Don’t intend to use it, but I want it around Incase company shows up.
I read that over a million high capacity mags were sold in that one week in California.
I’ve a couple of 100 round drums, and a couple of 200 round drums. But, the majority of my mags are 50 rounds. And yes, I am in CA.
“Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the Wild, Wild, West have simple six-shooters?”
They also had Gatling guns and anyone could buy one.
“Shoot outs over tater tots, parking place, forced off a wave at Mavericks, no ketchup at the drive through. Just like anyplace that allows those weapons of destruction.”
BS, BS, and more BS.
Do you realize that according to the FBI online data banks that feet, elbows, and fists kill people way more often than all long guns combined in this country every year.
If you don’t know that then you are intentionally ignorant.
I guess I should have used the /S on my post.
Some don’t pick it up as quick.
Show him a Glock and he’ll p*ss himself.
Yup
sorry if I offended you. I live in cali. way the hell north where the pot grows, the emerald triangle, and where they filmed murder mountain.
We are not into the pot or the violence but we live in the middle of it.
This is a very well armed and polite society but all of cali’s gun laws are usually ignored privately and publicly.
Good for you,as you reside in that state of unconstitutional tyranny. BLOAT!!!
I’ve always felt if you knew everyone is armed it makes you safer. I go out with my wife to a show or dinner, I hope everyone is carrying. I believe there’s less likelihood of issues that way. Look at mass shootings, the azzholes pick the soft targets. I don’t chose to be one of them and hope those around me feel the same. Just my opinion.
I was in Fremont for work this past week. Today was a day off, so I hiked Diablo Mountain. Good workout and very impressive sites. Awesome scenery.
Saw a lady drive her car into a ditch on the mountainside and all I could think was, it's a good thing she didn't do that on the other side of the road !!! (long way down)
up here we stop and help. any emergency help is hours away.
The Wild Wild West also had Gatling guns, to be fair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2SPLDfHo0A
In fact, the Gatling gun even predates metallic cartridges; the original design used reloadable cylinders containing ball, powder and a percussion cap.
“Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the Wild, Wild, West have simple six-shooters?”
Well, you are wrong! So-called six shooters in the western movies could be fired eighteen times and you never saw anyone reloading.
Hi-cap Colt Peacemakers? Yep, they had ‘em!
;^)
LOL...Those “magic” guns were something else! :-)
Gatling guns...invented by a doctor! :-)
A wee bit difficult to conceal though....
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