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

[lhecker51]

185. Here is your answer and then some....

These guys! So if you think the law can't be circumvented legally.......think again!

http://www.shopalexanderarms.com/Magazines-10-Round_50_Beowulf_Magazine.html


You are wrong. Did you even try to look? The only difference between a Beowulf mag and a 5.56 mag is the designation inscribed on the base plate. That is the problem with many folks commenting on that of which they know nothing or very little. Many still think that gun manufacturers are producing new AR based automatic firearms and selling them to the public, although this has been illegal for decades.

I hunt wild boar on my ranch that destroy my crops. They come out in huge numbers and although I use an AR to dispatch them, it is barley adequate. Many make the statement: AR's have no purpose other than war. This is so patently wrong. On any given night, I have 10 to 20 boar in my fields. A bolt action rifle with only five rounds is entirely inadequate. The same goes for coyotes that go after my livestock in packs. I do not know of a single rancher in my area that is NOT using AR's, AK's or SKS semi-auto rifles. This year I have already killed over 70 wild boar and even more coyotes. If you remember the e-coli outbreaks in California spinach, that was due to wild boar feces that litter ENTIRE acres of spinach. An AR is a tool like any other dangerous tool that must be treated with respect. When was the last time you read about a crazy rancher taking his AR and going on a murder spree? Never. Yet each of these knee-jerk reactions to criminal use of firearms ends up only impacting our legitimate and legal use and has NO impact on criminals. Remember that the next time folks are sickened and possibly die due to e-coli outbreaks from boar feces contaminated produce.

Those against high capacity magazines and semi-auto rifles are supporting laws that have exactly no impact on the criminals that will still get their hands on them. Did you know gangs now are manufacturing their own semi-auto firearms? Leland Yee, a California anti-gun legislator was just sentenced to five years in prison for traveling to the Philippines to facilitate the trafficking of semi-auto rifles and pistols into the US. These firearms are all home built in the Philippines, look and function exactly like AR's and Colt 1911's.
Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow was his partner and took advantage of the gun restrictions that opened up new revenue opportunities for the Chinese gangs in California. We do not have a gun problem. We have violent criminal problem. How will any law get firearms out of criminal hands short of outright search and seizure of all firearms from all citizens? The number one source for criminal access to firearms is burglary. Second is straw purchases through non-criminal relatives and girlfriends. What could possibly be done or law written, short of seizing all firearms and making them all illegal could impact their ability to acquire them by stealing and straw purchase?

Next time do some research before sticking your foot in your pie-hole.