Gun owners say goodbye to high-capacity magazines at Freedom Shoot (Colorado)

[lhecker51]

184. Would an outright ban of all existing mags be effective?

If so, who would it likely impact? I can tell you from experience as an LEO that the only ones impacted are non-criminal gun owners. Significant numbers of arrests made where a semi-auto handgun is involved, the suspect had high cap magazines that are against our city's ordinance that bans the possession of them. The only effective way to do this is to go house to house, block by block with dogs trained to find firearms and explosives. Even then, it will not stop the flow until we can ban them in all states and they are all mandated to search them out house by house. The national guard could be used to perform this action along with police and sheriffs but it must be done in every state and done concurrently. I recommend that the NSA be put to a good use and identify suspect internet searches, purchases, and forum comments to develop lists of suspected owners of illegal firearms and magazines. This is the only way to effectively reduce the number of illegal guns and magazines. As has been stated, who needs to hunt with anything other than a bolt action rifle or sporting shot gun? Once the guns are gone, the only thing we will have to worry about are bombs as knives will not be used in mass killings. There is no feasible way to stop the crazies from making bombs which worry me more than the guns because the potential for mass casualties is MUCH greater. Poisons are another worry. We need more LEO's on the street because being 6 to 10 minutes out from an attack leaves the crazies enough time to kill many. I see no solution other than to triple the size of active LEO's on the street and deploy a massive network of CCTV cameras for surveillance to be proactive in the prevention of violent crime.