WaPo on Hi-Caps

[Paslode]

3 pages on Hi-Cap mags & clips

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...012203452.html

Excerpts:

The number of guns with high-capacity magazines seized by Virginia police dropped during a decade-long federal prohibition on assault weapons, but the rate has rebounded sharply since the ban was lifted in late 2004, according to a Washington Post analysis

The role of high-capacity magazines in gun crime was thrust into the national spotlight two weeks ago when 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner allegedly opened fire with a semiautomatic handgun outside a Tucson grocery store, killing six and wounding 13, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). Authorities say Loughner used a legally purchased 9mm Glock 19 handgun with a 31-round clip and was tackled while changing magazines.

[The Reaper]

What percentage of crimes involve more than 10 or 20 rounds being fired by the perp?

TR

[Dusty]

The Washington Post is a hard rag for me to read without breaking something or kicking a wall.

[Team Sergeant]

Extremely left wing-news paper gathering their information from an extremely left wing, national tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, Violence Policy Center.

How left-wing (socialist) of them........

This article is not worth discussing. I'm sure it helps sell newspapers in left-wing Washington D.C.


Ban all the evil guns, let's go back to swords!

[Paslode]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

This article is not worth discussing. I'm sure it helps sell newspapers in left-wing Washington D.C.

It is possible I should have named the topic Hi-Caps and the State of the Union Address

There has been a increase in the chatter from all sides regarding Hi-Cap mags and clips. Many are itching to do something to gain some positive image or political points....like one Peggy Noonan.

So the president is in a good position, on the way up after two years on the way down. A great question is: Does he know he's on the way up because his style and decisions have become more centrist? Do the people around him know it? If they know why, they can continue it, and if they don't, they won't.

Here are three things he can do in the speech that would be surprising, shrewd, centrist and good policy. The first may seem small but is not. Normal people are not afraid of a lowering of discourse in political speech. They don't like it, but it's not keeping them up nights. Normal people are afraid of nuts with guns. That keeps them up nights. They know our society has grown more broken, families more sundered, our culture more degraded, and they fear it is producing more lost and disturbed young people. They fear those young people walking into a school or a mall with a semiautomatic pistol with an extended clip.

What civilian needs a pistol with a magazine that loads 33 bullets and allows you to kill that many people without even stopping to reload? No one but people with bad intent. Those clips were banned once; the president should call for reimposing the ban. The Republican Party will not go to the wall to defend extended clips. The problem is the Democratic Party, which overreached after the assassinations of the 1960s, talked about banning all handguns, and suffered a lasting political setback. Now Democrats are so spooked they won't even move forward on small and obvious things like this. The president should seize the moment and come out strong for a ban.

http://patriotpost.us/opinion/peggy-...obama-upswing/

[tonyz]

The type or capacity of the magazine is no more relevant to the second amendment than the type of printing press, word processor, computer or web technology is to the validity of the first amendment. YMMV.