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  • Boulder Shooting Suspect Charged With Using Large Magazine

    04/22/2021 11:05:00 AM PDT · by PROCON · 43 replies
    AP ^ | April 22, 2012
    Colorado prosecutors have filed over 40 more felony charges against the man charged with killing 10 people at a Boulder King Soopers last month — including allegations he used a large capacity magazine that had been banned by state lawmakers in 2013 in response to mass shootings.The court document outlining the new charges also lists 19 new victims — including 11 law enforcement officers — that Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, is accused of trying to kill during the attack.
  • There’s No Second Amendment Right to Large-Capacity Magazines

    08/05/2019 1:00:17 PM PDT · by PROCON · 127 replies
    nytimes.com ^ | Aug. 5, 2019 | Robert J. Spitzer
    But conservative judges may block common-sense measures for a long time to come.The right-wing political extremist who gunned down nearly two dozen people at an El Paso Walmart on Saturday and the man who shot and killed nine people only hours later in a downtown area of Dayton, Ohio, both unleashed their savage attacks thanks to military-style rifles. Just as culpable for the carnage, however, were the large-capacity magazines that enabled these shooters to discharge many rounds of ammo without reloading. Once all the rounds in a magazine are fired, reloading takes time. That chunk of time is often the...