[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

At the Giffords shooting, most of the people killed or were wounded within the first ten rounds.

In the first three shots, Giffords was almost killed. Another person wounded and Judge Roll killed.

A limit of 10 rounds would not have prevented those.

After those three rounds people tried to scatter but were hampered.

[cripplecreek]

It doesn’t take long to swap out multiple smaller magazines.

The old Remington .22 semi auto I hunted squirrels with held 16 longs or 18 shorts.

[KrisKrinkle]

The standard capacity magazine seems to be 15 to 17 rounds these days, at least for 9mm. Thirteen rounds has been the standard capacity for the 9mm Browning Hi-Power since 1935.

They aren’t just wanting to ban high capacity magazines, whatever they are.

They want to ban standard capacity magazines.

[technically right]

So, the killer shows up with 3, .38 revolvers, 18 rounds in all. Kills 17 victims and then himself.

Well, I guess banning “high capacity magazines” sure minimized the carnage.

[Charles Martel]

I wonder if someone will make a large capacity magazine, sorta like Calico’s helical feed design - but make it integral rather than detachable?

[exhaustguy]

In an old WWII documetary on the M1 it indicated that one man using a M1 can do nearly as much damage as 3 men using a Springfield bolt action.

The M1 Garand used a 8 round clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo0NLKAvmDM

[rottndog]

The capacity of a magazine is irrelevant when you can do this:

World's Fastest Reload

[rottndog]

The capacity of a magazine is irrelevant when you can do this:

World's Fastest Reload

[Georgia Girl 2]

Its not like everybody doesn’t already have high capacity mags anyway.