Why Magazine Restrictions Are Useless For Preventing Mass Shootings

By Tom Knighton

In the wake of any number of mass shootings, from Virginia Beach to Sandy Hook, there tends to be a call for magazine restrictions by those so inclined to push for gun control. Their thinking apparently is that if you restrict the number of rounds in the weapon, you can mitigate the amount of carnage at these shootings.

However, magazine restrictions won’t do any such thing, and for a number of reasons.

First, let’s face the facts that there are piles of magazines that carry a lot more than 10 rounds. Tons of them. They’ve been legal since 2006 and while there’s no evidence the magazine restriction had any impact on crime during the era of the assault weapon ban, people have since bought magazines like they were expecting another ban at any time.

There’s literally no way to take all those magazines off the streets. It’s not happening. “Banning” anything other than low-capacity magazines is a fool’s errand.

Let’s say, though, that they could. Just for the sake of argument, let’s say that it’s possible. It still won’t do a damn thing except to hurt law-abiding citizens in their efforts to protect their own lives.

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