[Perdogg]

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070417-115358-5376r.htm

“High-capacity ammo clips became widely available for sale when Congress failed to renew a law that banned assault weapons,” began the ABC story, which cited the “expert” opinion of Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence: “When you have a weapon that can shoot off 20, 30 rounds very quickly, you’re going to have a lot more injuries.”

At the time of that report, there was no information about the weapons Cho Seung-hui used to kill his victims before committing suicide. Since then, law enforcement officials have said the mass murderer used two pistols (reportedly a 9 mm Glock and a .22-caliber Walther), but there was nothing to suggest that large-capacity magazines were involved in the crime.”

[Comus]

Morons. High cap magazines were always available during the “ban”. If they were manufactured before 1994, they were perfectly legal, but because of the “ban” they were more expensive.

[mamelukesabre]

I don’t think the media’s stunt with the firearms issue is going anywhere in this report. Even gun control advocates are not buying into it.

A guy that professed to be a gun control advocate told me that he didn’t think this was the proper case to be used to increase gun restrictions. His reasoning was that cho was so deranged that he simply would have built a bomb if there were no guns available to him. So he reasons that cho’s accessibility to handguns may have actually saved lives since he would have potentially killed more with a bomb.

[Eagles6]

The one magazine that was most affected by the ban was 25 and 50 rd. mags for the Ruger 10-22. They were selling for more than the price of the gun.

At the same time you could buy 30 rd AK clone mags for $10 and 75 rd drums for $100.

[gc4nra]

opinion of Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence: “When you have a weapon that can shoot off 20, 30 rounds very quickly, you’re going to have a lot more injuries.

Obviously paul has never met Jerry!

Jerry Miculek World Revolver Speed Shooting Records:

Eight shots in 1 second
Six shots-reload-six shots in 2.99 seconds
Six shots, two on each of three targets, in 1 second
Sixty shots out of ten revolvers in 17.2 seconds

[Paperpusher]

Ebay will not sell high cap mags, only 10 rounders.

[Hardastarboard]

“High-capacity ammo clips became widely available for sale when Congress failed to renew a law that banned assault weapons,” began the ABC story, which cited the “expert” opinion of Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

Mr. Helmke is of course a moron. Large capacity magazines were as available a year before the AW ban expired as they are today, and at reasonable prices (the exception being high capacity 10-22 magazines, which for some reason were rather expensive - that situation hasn't self corrected much, either, for some reason).