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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
... The only question: is getting rid of B worth the trade-off of hunters having to hunt with low-capacity magazines?
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That's the only question for YOU! Others realize that if you ban high capacity magazines in rifles and someone misuses a handgun with a high capacity magazine; then, you'll want to ban high capacity magazines in handguns. Then if someone practices rapid magazine changes with a rifle or handgun and goes berserk, you'll want to ban all semiautomatic rifles and handguns because they all take magazines. You'll want everyone to use lever action rifles and revolvers until someone abuses those and you find out that lever action rifles and revolvers hold the same number of rounds as low capacity magazines and there are speed loaders for them. Then when some nut case causes multiple casualties with those, you'll want everyone to have single shot bolt or breach action rifles and handguns at which point you'll point out that rifles are too powerful for home defense and you'll want them all locked up in expensive shooting clubs; also, that single shot handguns may not be all that useful for self defense,
'cause there are no magic bullets, so we might as well just do away with handguns entirely.
I've lived long enough to see localities ban semiautomatics and to see localities ban all handguns. I've seen pro-right to bear arms people give an inch only to have anti-rights people take a mile. It has happened even though the anti people gave assurances that they only wanted just that first little concession; because, they rationalize the end justifying the means. The trust is long gone on this issue except for the gullible and people who live in their own little worlds. If you say the progression I described above is far fetched, I just label you a quack. A pleasant and good looking quack; but, non-astute nonetheless.
PS: I didn't mention shotguns since everyone knows shotguns are only used by gangsters to mess up people's faces in revenge shootings.
PPS: Anyone with a 3D printer can make their own high capacity magazines. Plastic magazines are already in use.