Mag limits are an asymmetrical limitation. Even IF the criminal is abiding by the limitation, when he has the initiative, he can prepare beforehand. If all he can get are 7s, he can strap 20 of them on a vest. I don’t want to have to walk around all day festooned with short magazines, just so I can respond to one loaded out loony or multiple home invaders.
Tom Clancy had his spy/family-man/action-hero Jack Ryan explain the idiocy of magazine limits something like this:
Imagine I’m pointing a rifle at you, with a 30 found magazine. You feel threatened and unsafe, right?
Now suppose I’m pointing a rifle at you, but it has a 10 round magazine (or 7, in NY). Do you feel only 1/3 as threatened by the 10 round magazine? (or 7/30, in NY)?
It is the first bullets the criminal has available that threaten me, not the total number.
However, it is the need for an unknown number of rounds to defend myself that makes me want a 30 round AR mag.
March 13th, 2013 at 11:00 pm
Mag limits are an asymmetrical limitation. Even IF the criminal is abiding by the limitation, when he has the initiative, he can prepare beforehand. If all he can get are 7s, he can strap 20 of them on a vest. I don’t want to have to walk around all day festooned with short magazines, just so I can respond to one loaded out loony or multiple home invaders.
March 14th, 2013 at 2:10 pm
Tom Clancy had his spy/family-man/action-hero Jack Ryan explain the idiocy of magazine limits something like this:
Imagine I’m pointing a rifle at you, with a 30 found magazine. You feel threatened and unsafe, right?
Now suppose I’m pointing a rifle at you, but it has a 10 round magazine (or 7, in NY). Do you feel only 1/3 as threatened by the 10 round magazine? (or 7/30, in NY)?
It is the first bullets the criminal has available that threaten me, not the total number.
However, it is the need for an unknown number of rounds to defend myself that makes me want a 30 round AR mag.