Posted on 04/13/2019 5:44:25 PM PDT by jazusamo
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) is one of the people pushing to keep "high capacity" magazines, anything that holds over 10 rounds, illegal in the Golden State. For one week, Californians had the opportunity to get their hands on these magazines because of a court ruling that overturned the state's ban. One week later, the same judge issued a stay , which meant the ban went back into effect while the lawsuit, Duncan v. Becerra, was settled in court. Any magazines obtained during that week-long period were legal.
Although it's impossible to know exactly how many "high capacity" magazines were during that week, we have a few pieces of evidence that show it was in the millions. Gun stores and ranges couldn't keep the magazines in stock. In fact, some were even having to put limits on the number of magazines a person could buy at one time just to try to keep them in stock for a short period of time.
"Everything was all sold out. I basically took whatever I could get," Chris Puehse, the owner of Foothill Ammo in Shingle Springs, east of Sacramento, told the Daily Mail . "People loved it. It was like we were out of prison and were not treated like bastard stepchildren of the country anymore."
According to Puehse, the magazines he had in stock lasted only a couple hours and that was even with the limits he put in place.
"They disappeared," Puehse said. "They wanted to grab more than I let them, otherwise they would have been gone even faster than a few hours."
Now here's the best part of the entire ordeal.
A few hours before the judge issued the stay, Becerra said California was in danger of becoming 'the wild, wild West for high-capacity magazines," the Daily Mail reported.
"There are those who are now trying to flood the state of California with what were until this decision illegal high-capacity magazines, the type of magazines that are used in firearms to commit the mass shootings that we've seen throughout the country," Becerra said.
Ruger and Palmetto State Arms both diverted all of their in-stock inventory to send to California. For a short period of time, other states couldn't order stock because the companies were focusing solely on the demand from the Golden State (probably because they knew the order wouldn't last very long).
Naturally, gun control advocates ran with the notion that flooding the state with these magazine was a strategic move.
"They [gun rights organizations] have a very specific purpose and intent here to try to set up for the court that these are devices that are very commonly used and possessed," Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence' California legislative affairs director Ari Freilich said.
Don't you just love how people like Becerra make gun owners sound? Anti-gunners are quick to paint gun owners in a certain light:
If you're someone who owns "high capacity" magazines, you must want to commit mass carnage, not hunt or partake in the shooting sports.
If you're someone who advocates for owning "high capacity" magazines, you must be a criminal, not someone who wants to protect his or her own life.
They don't talk to us. They don't listen to us. And they sure as hell don't care about us. They're too busy painting us as something we're not to realize that we value life, love liberty and condemn those who harm others.
It’s this kind of inane demagoguery that elects these anti- American tax and gougers
Absolutely no danger of honoring or following the Constitution though.
And 10 to 15 shot Winchester rifles.
Oooo...gotta get me one o’ those! ;-)
Significantly less wild than South Central and plenty of other California locales. After all, most who settled the West were either Civil War veterans or sons of same. These were not men to trifle with, and things were generally not all that wild compared to the modern Democrat-run city’s slums.
Here in Texas we don’t have limits on magazine capacity, and YES, it’s easy to tell the difference.
Why just last evening, I got into 3 shootouts on the way home from work. Luckily those clowns had terrible training, so I was able to put them down easily. Just another day in Texas...
How cliche
didn’t the Wild, Wild, West have simple six-shooters?
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Yeah, but you usually only loaded five, to keep the hammer over an empty chamber.
and of course he was simply wrong. So-called “high” capacity....ie normal capacity magazines have typically NOT been used even in mass shootings. The one in Connecticut? He had 10 round mags. The one in Broward county? He had one 15 round mag and otherwise had 10 round mags.
This is just another of the Leftist gun grabbers’ FALSE talking points.
Kind of like their obsession with the AR-15 when fewer people are killed by long guns than are killed by hands and feet every year.
Kind of like their insistence more guns = more violence when the number of privately owned guns in this country has doubled in the last generation even as the crime and murder rates have been cut in half over the same time.
Kind of like their obsession with bump stocks even though they by their nature, destroy the ability to aim and were only ever used by the Vegas shooter and nobody else.
Kind of like their insistence that there is such a thing as the “gun show exception” when there is nothing you can legally do at a gun show that you cannot do elsewhere.
They’re not just ignorant, they’re PROUD of their ignorance yet vehemently insist they just know it all...even though its patently obvious to anybody who knows anything about guns within 30 seconds of listening to them that they don’t know a damned thing.
Are these fully automatic or single shot mag clips?
from all of those peace loving MS-13 bundles of love heading yer way ...
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You mean from Trump to Sanctuary Cities?
Back in the eighties, I had a M-1 carbine with two 30 round mags. Fun to shoot, expensive to refill. Same for the P-38...
I suppose that would be a good idea, bouncing around on a horse! :-)
This question is of course, purely hypothetical, but I would like to hypothetically ask if it is possible that I might have to hypothetically shoot 10 tyrants or more before reloading with my standard 30 round capacity magazine?
BTW, I own a 100 round AR-15 KCI drum mag that functions flawlessly. What sort of hoplophobic derangement might that induce among these gun grabbers?
Oh I know. CA gun laws.
Ha! The way this turkey talks they must be full auto mags, more dangerous than bump stocks. :)
Actually, there were very few shootings in the “wild west” because an armed society is a polite society.
Picked a couple up before the ban.
I may be wrong but I believe the standard issue mag to army men in Vietnam were 20 round mags. Seems a friend’s family had to buy and send the 30 round mags to him. The main issue was, you go full auto it wasn’t long till you were empty and standing in a pile of brass in the schittz. Guns and mags don’t kill people, nuts kill people. Unarmed people are who nuts kill. I may get killed by a nut but I’ll go down armed.
I want high capacity rounds because when the country government is lost and the new faction comes to take my stuff, I want to be able to have the firepower to fight back. Basic 2nd Amendment 101, people.
What’s to stop anyone in California from going out of state and buying as many magazines as he wants, bringing them back, and if ever questioned, saying he got them during the time the law was lifted.
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