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In reply to the discussion: "100 round drum magazine" at the scene... [View all]Marinedem
(373 posts)But you need to realize that a small minority of gun owners are actually hunters.
I'm a target shooter. I like to shoot ten rounds at a time and then track my success by measuring the maximum spread of my rounds on the target. It is critical that all of these are fired in a row without removing my cheek from the stock of my AR15 to reload and reset the firearm.
That is honestly my WEAKEST reason for having more rounds.
I also use a high capacity rifle as a home defense weapon. It is a clone of the rifle I used in the military and I am quite familiar with it. The standard mag size in thirty rounds. Why should I use less than what is standard size magazines in a firearm that I may have to use to defend my life in my home? Why should I not be able to own magazines as large as the ones I used during my military service?
Sometimes I like to set out a target and blow through a thirty round mag as fast as I can. Because I choose too. It's fun to cut loose after an afternoon of disciplined, precision shooting. I hurt nobody by doing ANY of this.
If Anti-gunners put half as much focus into mental health and enforcing gun laws already on the books, we wouldn't be addressing tragedies like the one from today.
Its cool though. They can spend all their efforts on little old me while the world burns around them. I'm the threat, after all.