D.C. Police Chief And Mayor Say High Capacity Mags Responsible For Murder Spike

By Tim

Washington D.C. has reached record high murder rates and thrown the city into crisis mode. The Mayor of D.C, Muriel Bowser, and the Police Chief, Cathy Lanier, have made some outrageous claims as to what the cause of the murder spike is . They say that it is the “high capacity” that is to blame for the cause.

“Guns continue to make their way into the hands of violent criminals,” said Bowser. “Unfortunately some of those guns have high-capacity magazines that inflict maximum harm. Multiple of our cases have high-capacity magazines and multiple rounds fired making the shots more lethal,” said Chief Lanier.

“In D.C., over ten rounds is high capacity, but your department doesn’t trace what kind of magazine size guns have. I’m asking when you say high capacity, where are you getting that information?” Fox 5’s Emily Miller asked.

From the guns that we’ve recovered,” Lanier responded.

“So I’m talking about 100-round drum magazines — that would be high capacity.”

She also added, “High-capacity magazines are magazines that are designed to enhance the normal capacity of a firearm.”

A big problem with the claim given by Lanier is that on the current forms used …read more

Source:: GunsNFreedom