Having lunch at the bar the other day, the news was mentioning large capacity magazines. A fellow a few seats away from me looked over and said, "There is no reason anyone should have any more than 6 round magazines."
I did not respond.
He said, "Well, do you agree or not?"
I said, "I don't talk to idiots."
And if his testicles weren't in his wife's purse he would have punched you. But obviously that didn't happen
I shot a 2Gun competition yesterday. The Naval Combat Arms Team from Annapolis stopped by and shot with us on their spring break on their way to Florida. They do this every year, and we look forward to it. Picture this if you can. I belong to two clubs down here, one's a privately owned club with multiple ranges. The other's a much older established IDPA club that uses the Effingham Sherrif's range. Yeah, we don't have our own range, we have a years long agreement with local law enforcement to use their range every month to run our club events.
So every month we run our club match there. Two times a year, we have very special matches. One is our "Sua Sponte" match, the other is when the Naval Academy stops by. We're talking about 20 college students, who can shoot very well, who are polite, who are traveling with their coaches, who are training to be military officers. And then another 30 shooters.
Running four stages, pistol/shotgun.
140mm magazines, load to capacity. That'd be 22 rounds per magazine for me. And for a couple of those stages, I got into my second mag.
If you look in my range bag - I have 18 Glock magazines. 15 of them are loaded. (10) 10 rounders, (5) 17 rounders loaded to 11, and (3) 22 round empty mags. That's my range bag.
BUT - THAT'S JUST FOR RANGE GAMES.
I carry the maximum the law allows because I don't look for trouble - if it arrives - it came looking for me - at a time, place and arrangement of its choice. All I can do is have the tools on hand to try and deal with it. That's mindset and equipment. Deliberately handicapping myself against predators is stupid. It's like putting up a sign saying "No Guns" and thinking that keeps guns out.