Keith is just still fumingover what Mike Francesca said about his show yesterday while replacing Imus. First that he had lower numbers than the FAN's Richard Neer, dubbed Sir Sominex. and 2 that Francesca could leave the Astoria studios in yesterday's Nor Easter and touch more people on Steinway Street than listen to or watch Olbermann.
Sure they were. No semi-auto handguns could be sold with hi-cap mags unless those mags were manufactured prior to the ban (1994). Those 9mms you speak of were all sold with 10-round mags between '94 and '04. Thankfully that ban is now history.
“The regular 16 or 17 shot mags of a Glock or other 9mm were never affected.”
Nope they were. Back in 1998 I purchased a 9mm semiauto pistol and it only came with 10 round clips. That is the only thing they were allowed to sell to “civilians.” The same gun store had a case of pistols, one identical to the one I purchased. The pistols in that case had 15 plus rounds clips. I asked why they had this special case and said I wanted to buy one of them. They told me only a state licensed “peace officer” (AKA police, sheriff deputy, etc.) could buy pistol that came with clips holding more than 10 rounds. It was, I was told, because the the Clinton gun laws.
Now that being said, I thought it was rather stupid. At that time I was doing work as a licensed “armed” private investigator. To be licensed I had to attend the same shooting classes a peace officer did. I was a fair marksman, and only having a 10 round clip would not slow me down in using the pistol on a “combat” style shooting range. It doesn’t require much skill to quickly change clips. The only reason I wanted 15 round clips was so that I could load them with 10 rounds without overcompressing the spring and could leave the clip loaded at all times.
For that matter, I got pretty fast at reloading even a revolver using a speed loader. The hard truth is that someone intent on killing many people will find a way. Banning high capacity clips will not stop them.