Should very large handgun magazines be heavily regulated

[smithra_66]

No, I proposed nothing at all. I simply believe that defending extra-capacity mags will not help maintain the status quo and also that defending what lots of folks know about only from their actual usage in mass murder is somewhat likely to cause new restrictions that go well beyond the mags.

I believe one should pick one's battles with care.

You and beemerguy53 are the Neville Chamberlains of the gun rights cause.

Appeasement never works against radicals. They would spit on you before they disarmed you and threw you in jail. Let's get real here.

 

[Waldo]

If we -- gun enthusiasts and the gun industry -- don't police ourselves, we are going to have a legislative solution imposed on us. It nearly happened nationally after Sandy Hook (and it did happen here in Maryland, where our governor and legislature used that crime as the pretext to pass a panoply of new laws), and sooner or later our luck will run out.

Cause-and-effect...cause-and-effect...

Here's a perfect example of what I'm talking about: Last summer, Homeland Security Investigations and the Baltimore Police Department arrested three men in connection with a drug and gun crime ring. They recovered parts to make 40 so-called "ghost guns", along with 15 other weapons and a load of narcotics.

As we know, federal law allows you to buy an unfinished receiver and make a gun for your own personal use. But these guys had 40 gun kits...do you think the businesses that sold those kits didn't suspect what was going on? But they sold them anyway...because they could.

So that's the cause, and here's the effect: The Maryland General Assembly is debating a bill to outlaw -- you guessed it -- "ghost guns" in our state.

What's one of the earliest lessons most of us learn? That's right: That one person screws it up for everybody else.

BPD, Homeland Security make arrest in drug trade, ghost guns manufacturing

I am not sure if I understand the point you are making. What I am getting from your story is that no matter what a criminal does the anti gunners will find a way to blame it on honest, law abiding citizens, and use it to try to take our legally owned guns away for us. I don't think the anti gunners ever miss a chance to demonize us and press for more restrictions. I think the antigunners are pretty creative and do not need any help or suggestions much less support or compromise from gun owners.
I moved from Maryland to Virginia to get out from under the thumb of the anti gunners. I tell everyone that I am a political refugee. I also remember having a conversation with my Maryland State Senator when he voted for the original ban on magazines holding more than 20 rounds. He said it was a "reasonable compromise" But the anti gunners were not happy, so we compromised some more, and now the limit is 10 rounds. But I think there are some in the gun community who will gladly compromise some more, because they want to be reasonable and we need to pick our fights.

 

[Chubbo]

God bless you all and give you peace.

Chubbo

 

[JJEH]

Should very large handgun magazines be heavily regulated

The quick answer is no.

 

[dockmurgw]

The amount of over-dramatizing here has been astonishing.

Now there's an understatement if I ever read one. Some comments are cringeworthy, some remind me of the old RIF (reading is fundamental) commercials. But hey, could be worse...at least you and Biku haven't been accused of burning flags and hurting puppies.

 

[ladder13]

Another flushed out.

 

[ladder13]

I have always been very curious about this. I do not know how many times when talking about gun rights, I have been told that I can't yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater. If I was in a crowded theater and there was a fire, what would I yell? What if I was in an uncrowded theater? How do we define crowded? Is it a fixed number? Maybe a certain percentage of occupancy?
Should the theater be posted with the number of people that constitute a crowd? If there was a fire, would I have to count how many people were in the theater, determine if that was a crowd or not, and then take the appropriate action? Would the size or source of the fire be a factor? I think instead of risking the chance of facing the mighty wrath of the people that tell me it would be illegal to yell fire, I would just yell "CHOCOLATE"
I think the above helps me to understand how misguided attempts to say "This gun or magazine is bad, but this gun or magazine is good." are.
I think the thing we need to remember is that there is no where in the United States that a gun law, once passed has caused the anti gunners to stop and say we have enough gun laws.

They yell fire in theaters when filming movies I would bet. Heck, the panicked when the Blob was filmed.

 

[Beemerguy53]

Except you ARE demanding that we 'allow' it.

I have demanded no such thing. In fact, I have "demanded" nothing on here.

I have tried to make the point, repeatedly, that we have to be smart and savvy in defending out rights. Apparently some folks find that concept too challenging to understand.

 

[handejector]

This horse is dead.
I thought the topic worthy of discussion and opened this back up.
I thought it could be discussed in a narrow vein without going into racial issues and other banned topics. I was proven wrong.
I thought it could be discussed civilly, and it was for awhile, but I was proven wrong over time.
Load 'em if ya got 'em.