Why high capacity magazines? Target shooters can tell you. Next to hunting, target shooting is a favorite sport of gun owners everywhere. As many have noted it is the failure of states and agencies to conduct and require background checks that allows so many wepaons to get into criminals and whacko's hands. It is also partly the responsiblility of the NRA to guarantee it's plegde of supporting "responsible gun ownership." I proposed in the past that every high school senior, male and female, should take an elective or voluntary course in pistol and rifle shooting, mainly oriented towards responsible ownership, and receive a graduation certificate and a License Application, for which the requirement of training would have already been completed. (NRA has offered to provide qualified instructors, practice equipment and range time, as I understand it).
The failure of most states to enact background checks at every potential stage of gun ownership is inexcuseable, as is the government's. This is NOT to ask for more regulation; we have enough. But this one item, making sure who owns the gun is a responsible person, not a "straw buyer" not a "mentally impaired person," is truly needed. The magazine capacity "problem" isn't, nor is the availability of assault weapons.. Getting iweapons of any type nto the wrong hands IS.
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