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Originally posted by FreeQuebec86
Originally posted by bozzchem
Originally posted by Screwed
The office of Carolyn McCarthy, a Democratic congresswoman from New York, confirmed to me today that she will present a bill on Tuesday aiming to limit public purchasing of multi-round ammunition clips of the sort used in the Tucson shooting. Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey will introduce the legislation in the Senate.
One question I have not heard asked is,
If this legislation gets pushed thru, which it will,
what are those people who already own high capacity magazines supposed to do?
From what I have been led to believe thus far, if this legislation gets any legs it will not be like the Clinton ban in 94 where there were grandfather clauses for ARs and high capacity mags. ?
Are they supposed to just throw them away? Will there be a check point where we can turn them in?
A "Cash for Clips" program?
If anyone has any thoughts on this please join in. I find it hard to believe that those with high capacity mags will just willingly turn them over which makes me wonder if it is completly out of the question for the Feds to begin demanding lists from firearms dealers of all people who have purchased HCM in the past, say, 5 yrs. and then.......door to door "Visits".
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The term "high capacity magazine" is subjective...at best. What is considered a high cap mag? For which caliber? For which weapon? Tossing out subjective crap...as CONgress does so well is really a waste of both theirs and our time.
I'm sure I own quite a few mags that would be considered "high capacity". Will I turn them over? No. I own a number of different weapons and each requires a different magazine. Some dingbat in the District of Criminals who wishes to relegate any of them as "illegal" is nothing more than an employee trying to tell the employer what to do.
My magazines are nothing more than a piece of metal with a spring and follower that feeds whichever weapon it is engaged in. The magazines have NOTHING to do with what I am capable of since I can drop a standard mag and reload before you finish reading this sentence.
I will sleep well tonight regardless of the BS crap coming out of DC. LOL...then again, there is a gun show in town this weekend so maybe it's time to stock up for what lies ahead?
about your clips, nan you would not have to "give them to the govt" lol.
But rebuying more high clip ( more then 15 bullet ) it would be impossible or illegal.
and in 15 yrs maybe it would be impossible to find it even on the black market ( due to compagny stop making them ).
and the 1 second of reloading can save live, so it's better then a 33 clips.
Unless you want to kill many people 33clips size in dumb. You dont go hunt duck with a glock ! xD ( you do it with a shot gun for spread bullet )
Or goes hunting Moose ( a good sniper rifle hunting will be more effective ).
Even you dont need to protect yourself with 33 bullet, unless you got in a shooting scene like in the movie where during 5min your are shooting at each other lol...
But in reality, if you defend yourself with a gun, you will now shoot more then 10 bullet. Unless you miss all your shot OR you really want to kill the other guy... Like 20 bullet in his body.
BUT, for attacking people, 33 is GREAT !!! Defense ? nop. ( unless you are in a gun fight xD, but why would you be in that ? lol )
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Originally posted by solarstorm
Too many people like their Springfield XD-M's with a 19 shot cap (including me). The NRA will fight this with blood on their fists.
Yeah sure. The NRA... those backstabbing people who supports every gun control legislation?
Yeah good luck with that.
Originally posted by bozzchem
Originally posted by FreeQuebec86
it's a very good news !!!
WHY would you need a 33 bullet Mag clip ??
Yeah the law would take YEARSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS to be effective ( the time that the last 33bullet clip got used ).
But in 10yr or 15yr ( not long time on the mankind time ), maybe it would be impossible to find those 33 bullet mag !
Maybe im wrong about the 33 bullet number, but more then 10 bullet it's SO ABUSIVE.
Why, unless you want to shot several humans... you would need 33 bullet ?
More i come here, more i see that NRA propaganda is so strong in the USA... and so SAD.... You people talk about conspiracy, but one of your biggest you just deny it because you love your guns... WOW
33 Bullet is USELESS. You can't go hunthing animal with a 33 clip handgun xD Come on
Thank you for your ignorant post.
As someone who owns not only 30+ mags...I own 90+ mags. The purpose of these is to save time between reloading mags. It gets old. Loading up a 90 round drum is a hell of a lot easier than popping in three 30 round mags.
Just because you see no worth in it doesn't make it worthless.
Not only that? It's fun. Yep, it's fun to just shoot at a stump sometimes. Is it logical to many/most? Probably not. Is it fun to those of us who enjoy it? Yes.
Who the hell are you or anyone else to tell me what I can or can't do on my property?
Originally posted by Libertygal
reply to post by FreeQuebec86
This is why:
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Originally posted by Melbourne_Militia
In australia, we cannot have more than a 10 shot magazine.
Automatic rifles are banned.
Pump action shotguns are banned.
All rifles are either bolt action, even thou remington 7600 pump action rifles are allowed and lever action are allowed.
All rifles must be locked away at all times when not in use.....ammunition must be locked away in sperate safe.
we deal with it.....frankly I dont beleive you need a 30 round banana clip on your AR15 to hunt rabbit/boars.....
Its a military rifle and has no place in society.
if you are that scared of your government, then do something about it. Its when these guns fall into the hands of crims that innocent people get killed in the cross fire.....fight like a man, with your hands if you have to, not hide behind a gun!
just my opinion...I know it may ruffle some feathers....I just thing that the gun culture is out of control in the USA......theres a place for guns in society, yes, for sport and hunting...
Explain to me what a civilian needs a BMG .50 cal for? Hunting rabbits at a mile away?
Originally posted by anumohi
this is why its so useful to have large capacity mags
Originally posted by Libertygal
reply to post by FreeQuebec86
Of course, all you see is knives, because they took your guns away and this is how you were raised.
You are scared of knives-because you don't *have* a gun. If you did, knives would only scare you if they got close enough to cut you.
Otherwise gun > knife.
Your fear of knives is no different than citizens fear of gun toting gangs in the US.
It is the same thing, just a different tool. We grew up with guns, you grew up with knives.
It matters not the tool used, the intent is what counts. Guns no more kill people than knives do. Both require someone with intent to use them in that manner.
Originally posted by FarArcher
reply to post by Screwed
They can't reverse a law.
Therefore, those already manufactured or owned, will still be legal to possess.