I agree in principle, a winner of a gunfight, in which one person wants to STOP or kill the other is the one that keeps calm and puts bullets on target.

However, the winner of a firefight, may not be the gunfighter or the skilled professional but the person who throws up a wall of lead, forcing the attacker or defender to retreat, or to be out of the fight due to injury or death.

A firefight is where one throws shots to kill/wound or suppress attacking or defending fire.

It is a viable tactic in war, and by the news reports today is a used in police work evidenced by the high number of shots fired in active shooters, defense against police ambush and cases where the criminal appears to have gotten the upper hand.

It is NOT that 'youth' have substituted accuracy for capacity but rather capacity on both sides have introduced a tactic reserved for high capacity shooters only. That is why many jurisdiction are trying to ban high capacity magazines to allow only the police to have access to this advantage.

In NY, that was the intent to ensure only the government has a monopoly on bringing a firefight to a gunfight. A gunfight is a few well placed shots.

Saying that, in NY you carry 1+7 or 8, plus as many multiples of 7 you want if carrying a pistol.