‘Experts’ Want To Focus On Magazine Capacity. They’re Wrong

By Tom Knighton

In the wake of numerous mass shootings in recent months, a lot of attention has been focused on them. People are looking to try and find some kind of a solution and, frankly, a lot of those who are doing so don’t really give a flying flip about your rights. They’ll do anything they can, including banning things.

Over at the Washington Post, they found some “experts” to claim that what we need to focus on is magazine capacity.

It took a shooter all of 32 seconds to spray 41 rounds outside a popular bar in Dayton, Ohio, this month, an attack that killed nine people and injured 27. A lightning-fast response from nearby officers prevented a far higher toll: When police shot him dead, the killer still had dozens of bullets to go in his double-drum, 100-round magazine.

The use of such high-capacity magazines was banned in Ohio up until 2015, when a little-noticed change in state law legalized the devices, part of an overall rollback in gun-control measures that has been mirrored in states nationwide.

With the pace of mass shootings accelerating — and their tolls dramatically increasing — criminologists and reform advocates are more intently focused on limiting …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms