By Ben Kesling and Zusha Elinson
Aug. 16, 2019 9:38 am ET
"Recent mass shootings are drawing attention to drum magazines, which allow shooters to fire dozens of rounds without stopping to reload.
The round magazines, made famous by the Tommy gun from the Prohibition era, were famously unreliable and hard to use, but have recently benefited from leaps in manufacturing and design. Today, they can be legally purchased at gun stores and online in most states.
The attacker in the Dayton, Ohio, massacre earlier this month used a 100-round drum magazine made by KCI USA to fire 41 shots in less than a minute, killing nine people and injuring 17 others. The shooter in the Gilroy Garlic Festival attack in California last month that left three dead also owned one, but didn’t use it, law-enforcement officials said.
KCI didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Now, some lawmakers have renewed an effort to ban them and other high-capacity magazines for civilian use.
Rep. Dina Titus (D., Nev.), is co-sponsoring a bill that would outlaw magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds. Ms. Titus, who represents Las Vegas, previously co-sponsored a bill to ban the magazines in the wake of the 2017 attack at a country-music festival there, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. That legislation also called for high-capacity magazines to carry serial numbers so they could be tracked. That bill never came to a floor vote.
“High-capacity magazines make it easier for shooters to kill large numbers of people in short periods of time,” Ms. Titus said in a statement. “No civilian needs the ability to fire over 40 shots in less than 30 seconds like the shooter in Dayton did.”"
Mass Shootings Draw Attention to ‘Drum Magazines’
If I had to guess, these items will be banned very shortly. Too many on the left are eager for a victory, ANY victory, and too many on the right would be willing to throw them something to appease the leftists.
And for anyone with reading comprehension problems, I am NOT supporting this. Just predicting what could happen.
Aug. 16, 2019 9:38 am ET
"Recent mass shootings are drawing attention to drum magazines, which allow shooters to fire dozens of rounds without stopping to reload.
The round magazines, made famous by the Tommy gun from the Prohibition era, were famously unreliable and hard to use, but have recently benefited from leaps in manufacturing and design. Today, they can be legally purchased at gun stores and online in most states.
The attacker in the Dayton, Ohio, massacre earlier this month used a 100-round drum magazine made by KCI USA to fire 41 shots in less than a minute, killing nine people and injuring 17 others. The shooter in the Gilroy Garlic Festival attack in California last month that left three dead also owned one, but didn’t use it, law-enforcement officials said.
KCI didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Now, some lawmakers have renewed an effort to ban them and other high-capacity magazines for civilian use.
Rep. Dina Titus (D., Nev.), is co-sponsoring a bill that would outlaw magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds. Ms. Titus, who represents Las Vegas, previously co-sponsored a bill to ban the magazines in the wake of the 2017 attack at a country-music festival there, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. That legislation also called for high-capacity magazines to carry serial numbers so they could be tracked. That bill never came to a floor vote.
“High-capacity magazines make it easier for shooters to kill large numbers of people in short periods of time,” Ms. Titus said in a statement. “No civilian needs the ability to fire over 40 shots in less than 30 seconds like the shooter in Dayton did.”"
Mass Shootings Draw Attention to ‘Drum Magazines’
If I had to guess, these items will be banned very shortly. Too many on the left are eager for a victory, ANY victory, and too many on the right would be willing to throw them something to appease the leftists.
And for anyone with reading comprehension problems, I am NOT supporting this. Just predicting what could happen.