{"id":58681,"date":"2020-08-24T11:35:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T16:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=58681"},"modified":"2020-08-24T11:35:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T16:35:44","slug":"58681","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=58681","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

WHY \u201cLARGE CAPACITY MAGAZINES\u201d ARE IMPORTANT<\/a><\/p>\n

Massad Ayoob<\/p>\n

We\u00a0recently discussed here<\/a>\u00a0the Ninth Circuit\u2019s decision that limiting private citizens to a magazine capacity of ten rounds was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

The Court referred to them as LCMs, Large Capacity Magazines. We gun people call them Standard Capacity Magazines since that\u2019s what so many of the firearms in question \u2013 handguns, rifles, and even shotguns \u2013 were originally designed for.\u00a0 It continues to amaze me that people whose critical thinking skills are otherwise intact can\u2019t \u201cget it\u201d on this issue.<\/p>\n

First, of course, is the utter stupidity of believing that criminals who are prepared to commit murder and face life in prison without possibility of parole, or even capital punishment, will somehow be deterred from breaking a magazine limit law. But let\u2019s look at the common questions of \u201cWhy do private citizens need more than ten bullets to defend themselves? And if they do, why can\u2019t they just reload, or carry more guns?\u201d<\/p>\n

For one thing, most home defense guns are stored in secure places and not carried on one\u2019s person when at home.\u00a0 A home invasion can happen in seconds. When you grab the gun, it\u2019s unlikely you\u2019ll have time to grab more ammunition: what\u2019s in it at the start is probably all you\u2019ll have until it\u2019s over, one way or the other.\u00a0 Do you want the two rounds in a Joe Biden Signature Model double barrel shotgun against three or more armed home invaders?<\/p>\n

For another, violent criminals running on adrenaline and often drugs and alcohol can soak up bullet after bullet before they run out of blood or a lucky hit short-circuits their central nervous system.\u00a0 More bad guys wear body armor today than in the time of John Dillinger: current news shows violent Antifas wearing it openly.\u00a0 And surgical bullet placement for a single bullet in tense life-or-death circumstances is more the exception than the norm.<\/p>\n

Magazine limits have a disproportionate, disparate impact against the elderly and the handicapped.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard enough for someone in a wheelchair to get to a gun at all, never mind packing spare magazines or extra guns. And how does the wheelchair-bound victim get to cover to reload in any case? I can testify from experience that arthritic hands slow you down, too. How much of a nightmare is it to run out of ammo when you\u2019re trying to save your family from a home invader?\u00a0This article<\/a>\u00a0will give you an example.<\/p>\n

If your state has a magazine capacity limit, the recent Ninth Circuit decision cited above offers some hope for the future. If your state allows you to have standard capacity magazines, fight like hell to keep them when, as they eventually will, Prohibitionists attempt to prohibit them.<\/p>\n

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WHY \u201cLARGE CAPACITY MAGAZINES\u201d ARE IMPORTANT Massad Ayoob We\u00a0recently discussed here\u00a0the Ninth Circuit\u2019s decision that limiting private citizens to a magazine capacity of ten rounds was unconstitutional. The Court referred to them as LCMs, Large Capacity Magazines. We gun people call them Standard Capacity Magazines since that\u2019s what so many of the firearms in question … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-schtuff","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58682,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58681\/revisions\/58682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}