3 clip magazines max

[moriah]

6. It makes sense, but sadly 3 for all guns wouldn't work.

The five capacity magazine limit for any long gun platform set in Canada and several states in the US (only for hunting, though, which shows the inanity of people sometimes -- deer have more protection than kids) means that's the smallest magazine probably available and manufactured enough to become a standard.

With handgun magazines, 7-8 is the standard size for a single stack 1911-style pistol's magazine (Kimber's cut-down to handle 9mm vs .45 ACP in that style holds 8, their .45s hold 7). I don't know what most plastic handguns come with standard, but there's probably a current standard that couldn't be exceeded we could find -- essentially, the factory magazine capacity only. I think 10 is a good number and there are probably people who shoot plastic handguns who could tell me what standard mag was on the one they bought and if a 10 limit would make it illegal from the factory.

Someone else in another post showed the huge difference between what even a .45 can do compared to a .223 cartridge fired from a rifle. We NEED rifle magazine restrictions, no doubt, and handgun magazines no larger than standard.

But we also have to look at industry standards on what would actually pass.

Edit to add: I really want us to go full Canada and require registration and background checks for ammunition purchases, and for ammunition makers to be required to serialize their casings, because ammo degrades faster than guns and while it might still take 15-20 years before everyone goes through their stockpiles, eventually controlling access to and tracking ammunition purchases, along with serialization, will make tracking of people responsible for gun crimes easier than targeting the guns themselves. Magazine limits are the *minimum* I'm willing to settle for.