I was going to go off on how having lower-capacity magazines means you'd have to reload more often (and potentially carry fewer rounds during a mass shooting).  But then I RTFA.  So I'll skip that rant and say she appears to be rather ignorant on this subject.

Magazines are used once only at the spank bank.

Or they should be.

Maybe she was thinking of porn magazines.

Okay... that was head-slappingly stupid...

But it still doesn't justify the implied counter-argument that's always used: that if they're banned they'll just somehow magically stay around forever anyway in exactly the same numbers and proportions.

skozlaw: Okay... that was head-slappingly stupid...

But it still doesn't justify the implied counter-argument that's always used: that if they're banned they'll just somehow magically stay around forever anyway in exactly the same numbers and proportions.

No, but it gives the pro-gun lobby argument that legislators don't know what they're doing credence.

/it was inordinately difficult to not use a gun pun in that...

To be fair, they are kinda a "one time use only" bit in high profile mass murders, like school shootings. Not because you throw them away though, but rather because the person using them usually dies. Plus, high cap mags probably will be reduced in time by police confiscations when the gun is being used/owned in an illegal fashion, for instance.

I seriously doubt that that is what she was getting at though.

Bill Clinton was right when he told Democrats to STFU about guns. Half of them don't know what they're talking about and the other half use guns as props during press confrences while pointing them at the audience with their finger on the trigger.

/lefty gun owner

She is wrong. Therefore all anti-gun arguments are invalidated and we can all walk around with automatic weapons.

I hear the NRA spent a million dollars funding a study saying we should have armed guards at all schools. If the NRA would care to pay for that, with no financial impact on the local community, I'd be in favor of it. Just increase the annual membership fee to $100,000 or so...

that's a lot of movie watching right there

Hooray for my Rep! Man I hate Princess Di. She is one of the most pompous and clueless pols I've ever met. This is no surprise at all.

Color me shocked.  A liberal proposing gun legislation and not understanding the first thing about what they are proposing?  No way!

efgeise: Plus, high cap mags probably will be reduced in time by police confiscations when the gun is being used/owned in an illegal fashion, for instance.

They should be all gone in no time.

I generally don't get too worked up when I hear gun nuts biatch about gun control advocates not being absolutely geniuses on everything gun-related, but in this case, I have to agree, she clearly has no farking clue what she's talking about, and that's never a good thing for someone in the legislature.

It's kind of ridiculous that gun ownership is a constitutionally protected right.

Dimensio: dittybopper: enry: I was going to go off on how having lower-capacity magazines means you'd have to reload more often (and potentially carry fewer rounds during a mass shooting).  But then I RTFA.  So I'll skip that rant and say she appears to be rather ignorant on this subject.

It gets even better.  In an effort to save her, a staffer said this:

DeGette's spokeswoman Juliet Johnson issued a statement Wednesday, saying the congresswoman mispoke.

"The Congresswoman has been working on a high-capacity assault magazine ban for years, and has been deeply involved in the issue; she simply misspoke in referring to 'magazines' when she should have referred to 'clips,' which cannot be reused because they don't have a feeding mechanism," Johnson said.
 I'm sure all those SMLE, Mauser,  and SKS stripper clips I reused over and over and over would be interested to hear that, not to mention the Garand en-bloc clips I re-used.

The solution is obvious: prohibit by law the use of reusable firearm magazines, and require all existing magazines to be converted to "single use" operation or -- if such conversion is impossible -- turned in for destruction.

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The Name: It's kind of ridiculous that gun ownership is a constitutionally protected right.

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I've been know to reuse magazines, but they do tend to get a bit sticky after a while.

Still not as stupid as the legitimate rape statement by Todd Akin (and he sits on the Science Committee).

Also FTA: ...only early on were magazines for AR-15s designed to be disposable, but the military changed that and now magazines are used several times

Just several times?  Really?!?!  That seems a bit insane.

/doesn't own an AR-15