Some gun shops see more interest in accessories (esp extended magazines)

[RamboLiberal]

Since Saturday's deadly shooting in Tucson, Don's Guns in Indianapolis has run out of a magazine that enables Glock pistols to fire extra rounds.

"We sold out, just since that happened," says owner Don Davis. He has ordered more and expects the resupply to sell quickly. The rush to buy the accessories, he says, probably is motivated by fears that lawmakers will try to limit magazine capacity in the wake of the shooting.

A random check of dozens of gun stores across the nation by USA TODAY reporters found no indication that sales of Glock guns are surging, but some reported increased customer interest in the extended magazines.

"We have seen an uptick in high-capacity magazine purchases, but not specifically Glocks," says Jonathan Pirkle of Coal Creek Armory in Knoxville, Tenn. He says that if talk of a ban "lasts a month, then you will see them going quickly."

Gregg Wolff, owner of two Glockmeister stores in Arizona and a website that specializes in Glock pistols and accessories, also says customers are stocking up on the extended magazines.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-01-13-glock13_ST_N.htm

Link also has a chart of number of NIC checks per state Monday vs. Last year. Nationwide it was up just 5%.

[Skittles]

1. the usual paranoid response

[RamboLiberal]

2. True - just hope the dingbats who believe this crap

Don't start buying up the ammo again as they did in 2009. I have to stock up for competition season. I try to restock through the winter since in the warmer months I'm also paying competition fees each weekend. You know, just trying to balance the personal budget.

[benEzra]

16. So is anyone trying to ban them, or not?

In case you haven't noticed, people are trying to outlaw not just extended pistol magazines, but standard capacity pistol magazines also (for pistols AND rifles). And were a ban to pass now it would probably ban sales going forward rather than merely raising prices like the 1994 non-ban did. So if you own a full-size pistol or an intermediate-caliber rifle, and you EVER want replacement magazines for it (never mind extended magazines), and you think the ban zealots in the MSM might possibly succeed, then it is rational to hedge.

If you thought there was a chance that replacement spark plugs for your car might be outlawed next year, would you buy a spare set, or just junk the car when your current plugs wore out?

[Statistical]

24. Why is it paranoid. McCarthy proposed a bill to ban both high capacity AND standard capacity mags.

It isn't paranoid is someone is actively trying to achieve what you fear.

[Shagbark Hickory]

3. Why rush to buy something if you think it's going to become illegal soon? Must be those

"law abidin'" gun owners. Preparing to abide by the law.

[spin]

6. Simple. If Hi-cap or extended magazines are banned ...

magazines made before the cut off date are still legal and very valuable.

During the Assault Weapons Ban, there was never a problem buying a hi-cap or extended magazines. All the shooters I knew had two or three to go with their brand new "assault weapon". The magazines were just extremely expensive.

So an investor buys a bunch of magazines now and sells them for a profit when the ban hits.

Of course, if there is no ban he ends up with a bunch of magazines which he uses when he goes to the range.

[safeinOhio]

9. In Ohio a gun that holds 31 rounds is,

by law, classified a machine gun and is illegal to possess. Get caught with one in your gun and go to jail. Makes more sense than just making them illegal to purchase while still legal to own.

[RSillsbee]

13. Yep makes perfect sense to me

Glock + 15 round magazine = OK. Same damn Glock + 33 round magazine= Evil, scary, machine gun!!!!

I'm begining to understand you

[spin]

14. That's like calling a Volkswagen pulling a trailer a race car...

but I see your point. While calling a pistol that holds 31 rounds a machine gun makes no sense, it makes more sense than banning extended magazines.

[benEzra]

17. Thing is, McCarthy et al aren't trying to ban 31-rounders; they are trying to outlaw *11* rounders.

And not just for pistols, but for pistols and rifles.

[RSillsbee]

19. The problem w/ antis is

You can't compromise w/ them. If they get the 11 round magazine capacity limit and it has absolutely no effect on crime (and it won't) they'll push for a 6 round limit.

I'm sure you know this B.E. this post was more aimed at the lurkers

[benEzra]

20. I believe the "Brady II" bill in 1994 (S.1878) would have banned anything over 6 rounds.

That was truly Orwellian legislation, BTW. The requirement of an "Arsenal License" for owning two bricks of .22LR and the single-feature rifle ban (among other things) show where the BC wants to go.

[RSillsbee]

Where the BC wants to go.

The BC wants to go to society where only the cops , the military and the criminals have guns

[RSillsbee]

27. Where the BC wants to go.

The BC wants to go to society where only the cops , the military and the criminals have guns

[Katya Mullethov]

30. We can all be from Joisey .

Yeah that'll work .

[lawodevolution]

34. "In Ohio a gun that holds 31 rounds is,"

well, we'll have to look into undoing this law. Thanks for informing me.

[RamboLiberal]

33. McCarthy is trying to ban you from selling those mags

Said that tonight on Rachel's show.

[slackmaster]

11. The same reason people started hoarding silver coins in 1964.

Because things tend to become more valuable when new ones are not being made

[Abq_Sarah]

21. That's essentially correct

Though I'm not sure you meant it that way.

Purchasing an extended magazine today because the overheated anti-gun rhetoric might elicit knee jerk reactions from legislators seeking a feel-good do-nothing fix wouldn't make those magazines illegal to own if a ban were put in place tomorrow.

[Statistical]

25. They won't be illegal. IF (and highly unlikely) anything passes it will ban new sales.

IF (and once again I think McCarthy chances are between slim and none) new sales of those mags become prohibited the price will go up 400% overnight.

[Katya Mullethov]

32. Or more accurately , new production

The single area of which they have repeatedly proven themselves to have some semblance of control , stifling and halting productivity .

[onehandle]

4. Well they have been proven effective on 9 year-old girls. nt

[RamboLiberal]

5. I was reading account in a just released book about Luby's massacre

"Delivered from Evil" (BTW, warning a couple of graphic color crime scene photos in that chapter).

That killer in the midst of a vast lunch time crowd managed to kill 20+ people with no extended magazines but a vast number of magazines.

His first killing gun was a Ruger. He also had a Glock 17. No one was able to stop him as he changed mags. They could only try to cower behind flimsy table barricades or columnns, hide, or escape through window broken by a patron. Remember this was back when TX didn't allow carry. And this was instrumental in getting CCW approved.

He finally was stopped when he was cornered by police, he inserted a Ruger mag into his Glock giving police chance to get closer, finally he got correct mag in Glock and offing himself.

From what I read in accounts of the Tucson shooting it wasn't the mag change but the mag malfunction that allowed bystanders to stop the killer.

It may have been just as bad a toll if he had brought just the normal 15 round mags. Or even several 10 round AWB mags.

[benEzra]

18. The Virginia Tech shooter also used lots of standard-capacity magazines, not extended mags. (n/t)

[aikoaiko]

7. I;m glad I already bought the ones I wanted.

I've got 10 new in wrapper and six for the range.

[ileus]

8. Hope they're buying them with cash.

[Statistical]

26. Why?

You are aware McCarhty "feel good, do nothing" law simply prohibits new purchases of 11 round magazines.

[goddess40]

10. Extended magazines should be outlawed

And dealers who sell them should be arrested. Pistols with extended magazines are people killing instruments. I can think of no other reason for their existence. And the "I use it only for target practice" is a laugh. Target practice for what, killing people?

[slackmaster]

12. One simple word, goddess40

Zombies.

[Abq_Sarah]

22. rotflmao!

You can't have too many rounds in the Zombie apocalypse.

[PavePusher]

15. Projection, Accusation AND Authoritarianism...!

Does that count as a Trifecta? Or just a hat-trick?

[Katya Mullethov]

29. If you would have spotted an ad strawminem at the same time

You get to put your initials in at the end of the game .

[DonP]

23. Arrest those voters too, dammit!

If they don't vote exactly the way I think they should lock those stupid bastards up and put 'em in a camp.

After all, I alone have a valid point, the rest of you are being foolish with this stupid Bill of Rights foolishness and I should decide who is allowed to do what based on my extensive knowledge of the matter and my feelings.

To paraprhase Dean Wormer .. "Pompous, arrogant and ignorant is no way to go through life son".

[beevul]

28. Ever been target shooting with a mag fed handgun?

Mags don't fill themselves. The take time to reload rounds into, and higher capacity means longer practice sessions between reloading mags.

Its a valid point, no matter how much anyone might disagree with it.

"I can think of no other reason for their existence."

If you ever spent time filling mags, and target shooting enough that you had to fill alot of them, you might be able to.

[lawodevolution]

35. " I can think of no other reason for their existence. And the "I use it only for target practice""

Still extended magazines are legal and I do not have to explain to you why I own so many but I will anyway. The reason I go out of my way to buy so many extended range magazines is because people want to ban them. So thanks for doing your part to make sure such magazines proliferate to levels many times higher than they would be if you weren't trying to ban them.

[Hoyt]

31. Just goes to show you how the gun obsessed think. We need tougher laws.

Pretty dang sick if you ask me, and proof some of these folks don't need to be carrying in public.

[lawodevolution]

36. "We need tougher laws." Really, we need to be more like Mexico, Nigeria or Jamaica?

[Hoyt]

37. Is that what you are afraid of with tougher laws? That's not likely unless one is in the drug trade

or similar criminal activities including running/smuggling guns.

Hope that helps assuage your fears and opposition to reasonable gun laws in light of conditions/circumstances today, not what was going on 250 years ago.