I wish they would stop calling standard capacity rifle magazines “high capacity” to try to play them up as being in some way unusual
10 rounds isn’t even really standard for pistols, basically every full size pistol comes with a magazine larger than that (for reference, the most common US police duty pistols, the Glock 19 and 22, come from the factory with 15 round magazines), smaller than that and you’re getting into compacts that are meant to be more easily concealable (which itself has its own risk)
I’m fine with restrictions that make sense, but trying to say that full size pistols (with magazines >10 rounds) are “high capacity” and “not commonly used for self defense” is just patently false
I don’t really care what they call it, but nobody (other than mass shooters) needs to be walking around with 11+ bullets loaded. The common arguments against gun control–hunting, self defense, collecting, target shooting–are all totally unaffected by limiting the capacity of magazines.
If I had my way, people would be limited to low capacity mags and bolt action rifles. This is the sensible and legal middle ground between banning everything and banning nothing.
Now maybe you think the limit should be 15 instead of 10, or something, but those 5 extra rounds are potentially 5 more lives taken or ruined (not counting the ripple effects on family and community) in a mass shooting scenario. To me, that’s incredibly difficult to justify.
nobody (other than mass shooters) needs to be walking around with 11+ bullets loaded
I’ll be ok with these laws when they apply to the police as well, but that’s not how this or any other bill has been written so far.
Police and military please, either citizens can handle more than 10 round magazines or they can’t, the state shouldn’t have a monopoly on them
So three dudes are able to completely outgun 2 cops that roll up to your domestic disturbance?
As an Oregonian does this apply to police as well? No? Oh…
While nice, it’s almost certain this will be appealed up to the Federal Supreme Court.
Good
Luckily the Supreme Court understands what “shall not be infringed” means, and should fix this in short order.
Too bad they don’t understand the “well regulated militia” part.
They clearly do though.
In that you can buy a gun from Walmart, or just give one to your 7 year old?
Yes to both. I got my first .22 when I was 5.
The precedent is perfectly clear and hundreds of years old as well. Scalia cited this 1846 opinion in his DC v. Heller opinion, for example, among many others:
“The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State. Our opinion is, that any law, State or Federal, is repugnant to the Constitution, and void, which contravenes this right, originally belonging to our forefathers, trampled under foot by Charles I. and his two wicked sons and successors, re-established by the revolution of 1688, conveyed to this land of liberty by the colonists, and finally incorporated conspicuously in our own Magna Charta!”
A ridiculous connection, and a ridiculous glancing over something the forefathers specifically wrote out.
“Here’s a twisting of it all to suggest everyone have all guns instead of a militia!”
No, Supreme Court justices for the past two centuries actually know how to read, it turns out, so they can easily tell that a well-regulated militia is the main socially beneficial outcome of, and not a prerequisite for or restriction of, the right to keep and bear arms.
The Supreme Court also justified that abortion should be policed at the state level despite 50 years of it being protected at the federal level, so I wouldn’t use their ability or reason as jutsification. “They can easily tell”, when it agrees with what you agree with. In the same way the Constitution can be read to agree with digital 4th amendment rights, or not.
So where are they? Why is there not a robust structure, or pipeline of ownership to membership, including (most critically to me) the training and monitoring of those who are armed (well regulated)?
Just because you adopt the first part (ownership before membership) as important, doesn’t mean society, and the pre eminent law of the land can just give up on the second.
I don’t mean “show me that a militia exists”, I don’t need that link.
I mean why are the vast majority of gun owners not affiliated? Not trained?
