Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Ban ‘High Capacity, Rapid-Fire Magazines’

By Tom Knighton

Wouldn’t it be awesome of the people trying to make the laws would actually make sure they understand the thing they want to regulate?

I know, I know. That’s just crazy-talk. After all, why would a politician care to know anything about, say, guns before leading a jihad against firearms simply because one owner out of millions of law-abiding citizens used one in a horrible manner?

Yet that’s just what Democratic Representative and former DNC chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz is doing. How do we know she’s clueless about guns? Well, just watch.

She wants to keep us from being able to buy “high capacity, rapid-fire magazines.” Well, surprisingly enough, that’s not really a problem.

After all, she can regulate those just as easily as she can regulate unicorns, dragons, and honest politicians because none of those things exist.

Let me explain for the non-gun crowd you might be reading this.

First, the term “high capacity” is a bit of a misnomer. These magazines are pretty much what these weapons were designed to use. They weren’t built around 10-round magazines. Those were pretty much an artifact created by the first assault weapon ban in 1994.

Yet when you say “high capacity” magazines, people interpret that to mean it’s …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms