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So in light of all the talk of banning high capacity magazines following this tragic incident in Tucson, I've come to the conclusion that we are perhaps letting the anti's control the agenda aa bit too much. Almost every post in this forum that I've read on the magazine capacity debate refers to anything holding more than 10 rounds as "high-capacity".
Those who control the language and terms often control the debate. We need to take this part of the debate back from the antis - these magazines - 30 round for an AR, 40 for an AK, 17 for any number of 9mm handguns are not, and never have been "high capacity" - these are standard issue in the majority of the 50 states and throughout the parts of the world that guns can be had. This makes them standard capacity magazines. Just because their capacity to hold a certain amount of ammunition is higher than the capacity of a 10 round magazine does not make them high capacity - it makes them standard capacity because it is the standard issue and most commonly found capacity. Why can't we instead start referring to our neutered 10 rounders as "lo-caps" - which they are. Let's take it back to the antis - let's call them on their lies - we are talking about limiting the availability of standard capacity magazines, not high capacity magazines here - let's hammer that point home. Once you do that, banning magazines of a standard capacity starts to seem a lot less reasonable.
Those who control the language and terms often control the debate. We need to take this part of the debate back from the antis - these magazines - 30 round for an AR, 40 for an AK, 17 for any number of 9mm handguns are not, and never have been "high capacity" - these are standard issue in the majority of the 50 states and throughout the parts of the world that guns can be had. This makes them standard capacity magazines. Just because their capacity to hold a certain amount of ammunition is higher than the capacity of a 10 round magazine does not make them high capacity - it makes them standard capacity because it is the standard issue and most commonly found capacity. Why can't we instead start referring to our neutered 10 rounders as "lo-caps" - which they are. Let's take it back to the antis - let's call them on their lies - we are talking about limiting the availability of standard capacity magazines, not high capacity magazines here - let's hammer that point home. Once you do that, banning magazines of a standard capacity starts to seem a lot less reasonable.
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