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1-Old-Man

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8. The higher the capacity the more likely they will jam

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 06:01 PM

Jul 2012

It is good to remember that bullets have both weight, diameter, and length. If you want to stack 100 of them up inside of a metal or plastic box and feed them into a gun you need a spring strong enough to push them and long enough to deal with the stack and still have enough strength left to lift that last one or two while at the same time not being so strong that the clip could not have been loaded in the first place. The bigger the magazines get the greater the chance they will jam or otherwise malfunction. There may not be much difference between a 10- or 13-round pistol magazine but there's a lot of difference between a 5- and a 100-round rifle magazine. Scale-up is rarely linear, in any circumstance.

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Magazine capacity limits [View all] Trunk Monkey Jul 2012 OP

gungeon gungeon gungeon gungeon gungeon cali Jul 2012 #1

+1 googol valerief Jul 2012 #7

so then why not be for it? DrDan Jul 2012 #2

I don't understand it either Aerows Jul 2012 #3

I hear you . . . DrDan Jul 2012 #6

It did nothing so why limit magazine capacity? Trunk Monkey Jul 2012 #4

Why regulate building a bomb that kills millions Aerows Jul 2012 #9

Hard to use a nuclear weapon for personal defense 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #21

For me I would say that in a free society 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #18

that would be one way to look at it DrDan Jul 2012 #30

Sure, but first you need to provide evidence that this will 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #32

well I guess I just care more about the safety of children than you do - DrDan Jul 2012 #44

Banning 100 round magazines would lead directly 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #52

This message was self-deleted by its author permatex Jul 2012 #53

the post I responded to brought it up DrDan Jul 2012 #54

Ooops permatex Jul 2012 #56

You volunteer to help pay for the buy-back? Tejas Jul 2012 #31

sure - I volunteer to do that DrDan Jul 2012 #38

Harry Reid voted against the 1994 AWB, it was a stupid idea then and still is. Tejas Jul 2012 #5

I don't think much of Harry Reid Aerows Jul 2012 #10

A "feel-good" law is an insult. Tejas Jul 2012 #11

An insult Aerows Jul 2012 #12

You seem to be laboring under the misconception ManiacJoe Jul 2012 #14

You have a point Aerows Jul 2012 #36

I am not sure even He knows. ManiacJoe Jul 2012 #57

FINALLY in the last 150 years Tejas Jul 2012 #19

Pot is banned for stupid reasons Aerows Jul 2012 #37

I can think of a lot of things that I don't feel other people need 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #28

Does there need to be? Posteritatis Jul 2012 #29

Yeah! There were murders today so the law against murder isn't working!! tabasco Jul 2012 #16

On a practical level 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #15

Oh yes, changing magazines is so easy tabasco Jul 2012 #20

Didn't slow the Virginia Tech kid down a whole lot 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #23

yup as ive said before i would rathee have ten thirty round clips than a hundred loli phabay Jul 2012 #24

They were actually *lucky* Holmes went for the scary looking magazine 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #25

i hate to use lucky in this way but you are right loli phabay Jul 2012 #27

Can't recall how many times I dropped a magazine in combat. tabasco Jul 2012 #33

How big are those magazines they give you? 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #34

30 rounds. n/t tabasco Jul 2012 #35

i think yhats his point. hundred round magazines are okay at the range loli phabay Jul 2012 #42

Why not a 100 since they're sooooo much more lethal? 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #48

Primarily because we weren't a bunch of candyass Rambo wannabes. tabasco Jul 2012 #58

Can you think of any military that routinely issues 100 round magazines 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #61

no idea what this has to with his point. loli phabay Jul 2012 #46

OK so you get shaky under stress, Trunk Monkey Jul 2012 #60

I did so in combat permatex Jul 2012 #45

The higher the capacity the more likely they will jam 1-Old-Man Jul 2012 #8

Full auto weapons jam more often too tabasco Jul 2012 #22

Same thing happened to Jared Loughner in Tucson permatex Jul 2012 #47

we are lucky in some ways these guys dont know what they are doing and think extended mags loli phabay Jul 2012 #50

This is why I don't understand why it should be banned permatex Jul 2012 #55

This is one of those issues that strikes me as a tempest in a teapot 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #13

Agreed. 1-Old-Man Jul 2012 #26

Why should it be the end? MNBrewer Jul 2012 #40

your right to vote for it and advocate. i doubt its a winner. loli phabay Jul 2012 #43

Case in point 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #49

Damn, thought this thread was about PlayGirl bigwillq Jul 2012 #17

took me skmetime but i get it now lol loli phabay Jul 2012 #59

Where's your proof of that? MNBrewer Jul 2012 #39

Well said. Zalatix Jul 2012 #41

Ever heard of the AWB? Trunk Monkey Jul 2012 #51