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11th January 2013, 05:45 PM | #521 |
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Maybe he didn't load the magazine to 33.
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Possible, but there's no evidence for that. Typically one loads a mag until it won't hold any more. 31 is a pretty odd choice, and it's hard to imagine how he would have done that accidentally.
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11th January 2013, 05:52 PM | #525 |
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His fingers got tired? Who knows? What really matters is that once he had to stop shooting, he was hampered by a woman and then tackled. Reloading takes time, and at that time, a person is more vulnerable to being neutralized.
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Actually, it matters because know-nothings -- some of whom are senior elected representatives -- are using this as an excuse for their anti-magazine-capacity legislation proposals. In reality, the cases they cite don't make such a clear pattern. If anything, restricting magazine capacity will only mean maniacs carry MORE magazines, now smaller and more reliable, or MORE firearms altogether. The effect will be to unwittingly funnel these untrained idiots into adopting more lethal choices. For example, that scumbag who shot up the theater in Aurora Colorado recently. Everybody focuses on the AR-15 because it's a scary "Assault Rifle" and there's money/votes to be had attacking them. What's forgotten is that he JAMMED, because being a moron he had it prepped with a 100-round Betamag, which the educated know to be little more than range toys. The majority of those he shot were hit with shotgun pellets, not rifle bullets. The Virginia Tech shooter, standard magazines (10 and 15 rounds). Lots of them. Deadliest single shooter in American history. I have all three -- standard (20-round), high capacity (30-round), and "California compliant" (10-round) magazines for my AR-15, and I shoot timed events. The practical difference between them is not statistically significant. If your approach to stopping crime relies upon an attempt to regulate magazines, for which tens of millions are already in the field and any halfway decent shop graduate can make new ones, then you've already failed. The whole idea is preposterous. |
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Reloading means time not shooting. Sorry, but it does make a difference.
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11th January 2013, 06:07 PM | #529 |
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I have hard data that says otherwise, but thanks for playing.
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Reloading = not shooting.
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This has gotten silly, but... ...if one changes mags at an opportune time before exhausting all the ammo in the current mag, his weapon will likely* be "hot" while he or she reloads. * Some semi-automatic pistols have magazine safeties, and cannot be fired without a magazine in place - even if there's a round in the chamber. |
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I finally found some. A Walmart by my job had just received a couple cases. Not my favorite brand/grain (I prefer subsonic stuff for some reason), but I got what I need for tomorrow's class.
I've all but abandoned my goals for 3-gun and/or cowboy action shooting. I got two kiddos I have to put through college first! I have two new goals though, one is getting into .22 competition (maybe even starting something similar to 3-gun but with .22 pistol/rifle and 20 guage shottie). The second is going through all the bs to get a suppressor for a .22 pistol. Only problem I have with starting on my .22 endeavor is finding a decent pistol. It seems like the Browning Buckmark or Ruger Mark II/III is the way to go, but I just don't like the looks of either and apparently the cleaning sucks. I also haven't seen one with a threaded barrel. I really like the Sig Mosquito but I'm not sure it's an appropriate "match gun". |
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I believe I've found the most outrageous example of panic pricing.
On Gunbroker a seller has a M16 bolt carrier assembly for a buy it now price of...wait for it... $1199.00 American Dollars. There is a guy selling some very rare examples of rifles that would be subject to the currently proposed nonsense for prices only 100% above value, a Joe Poyer imported Aussie L1A1 NIB for $13,750.00, and a lightweight G series FAL NIB for $11,995.00 |
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All of this shows just how pointless trying to ban or remove any guns from the USA is.
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Given that demographics are changing in the US, and as minorities get more influence (given that they are pro gun control) and that the GOP will fade away (most of them are going to be over 65 soon), we will probably see gun owners eventually become a small minority.
ETA: Source is from Spacebattles: http://forums.spacebattles.com/threa...5#post-9530249 |
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Sadly I have read enough to believe too many gun owners would rather shoot it out with the police or ATF official who comes round to their house to seize their guns to make it a sensible exercise.
It is a horrible thing to say, but because someone with a gun has the ability to change rule of law into rule of force to get their own way, they have the upper hand in this. It puts tyranny on its head that instead of gun owners protecting all from tyranny, they have imposed one of their own. Because of that the one action that is likely to meet with some success is action to get guns off criminals and nuts. The actions proposed so far by Feinstein are not going to do that. They just play into the gun owners hands by tackling them before tackling the real problem. |
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Your link did not provide a source.
Anecdotally, lots of Cuban expatriates in and around Miami were pretty pro-gun when I lived there. Maybe that's changed. But maybe a totally disarmed nation of minorities is where the US is headed. If so, I hope the gov't is always benevolent, because if it ever turns malevolent, the people will be at their mercy. |
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evidence? every minority person I know owns guns. I think you are assuming that because minorities tend to be democrats that this makes them pro gun control. LOL, nope!
this idea that guns are only owned by republicans is false, the more you folks can get a grip on that the better off you will be |
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I find it staggering that some believe there could or even should be a USA with no civilian guns.
There are loads of countries where civilian gun ownership runs at about a quarter to a third of the civilian population with nothing like the deaths experienced in the USA. There is a middle way, which is to only have decent law abiding citizens entrusted to have guns. http://www.ibtimes.com/us-gun-contro...zerland-732104 |
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Nobody thinks criminals should have guns though. The problem is, criminals don't care about, you know, gun laws.
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well, when someone is in a gang and plans to drive around the corner and shoot up an opposing gang member's house, whether or not they are violating a gun law is probably at the low end of their priorities.
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I also tend to think that by decriminalizing drugs we could put those law enforcement dollars to better use and do a better job of enforcing gun laws.
Mandatory background checks for private sales would be a good start. |
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I notice how you try to avoid the fact that reloading is the time when a shooter is more vulnerable. Drum bullets? Who the heck said that? Drum style magazine, those exist.
Why do armies want the larger capacity magazines in their assault rifles instead of the smaller ones? So they don't have to reload as often. |
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Yup, and we have the gun lobby pandering to paranoia and making life safe for people diverting firearms to criminals.
For example, the BATF is prohibited from inspecting a licensed dealer more than once a year. Even when that dealer has shown an inability to follow the rules as required by law. The government is prohibited from using computers to keep track of firearms registration. Computerized records could be easily searched for buying patterns leading to straw buyers. Tracing a firearm found at a crime scene could be a quick computer query instead of hours or days of manually searching records at dealers shops. The private seller exemption allows criminals and black market dealers to easily acquire firearms without a background check or paper trail linking them to the firearm. This is really handy for guys selling handguns to street punks. |
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And we have Feinstein and those in bed with her who are pandering to the idea that banning future sale of assault weapons to civilians while leaving 2 million plus of them in private hands and punishing those that do not register them or attach a banned doo-dad to them will somehow reduce the crime rate in the country or reduce the number of children murdered here.
I noticed that it was all about banning the guns right after the latest tragedy and not about controls to keep them out of the wrong hands. Ranb |
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Not only this, but the BATF has not had a director for NINE YEARS.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep...ector-20110907 The GOP refuses to confirm anyone, Republican or Democrat, for the post. It's almost as if the party that's bought and paid for by the gun lobby wants to prevent the BATF from functioning. Wonder why that is? |
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