A legal 7 shot magazine would have handled that situation.
A legal 17 shot magazine would have been even better. Gummint has no business dictating magazine capacity.
...a legal 7 shot magazine would have handled that situation...
But, we both know that all he could have done on Staten Island woupd have been to throw the magazine at them because he could not carry the pistol it loaded there due to that being a felony.
Or a 6-shot with a spare mag in-hand.....
Either way - a weapon may have given them pause...one "warning" shot into the apparent leader and the rest tend to back off.
That would have been great to have in the fields or when they were splitting our families up! Can you imagine pulling out a .45 and saying, “my family stays together or with me”! I can.