NY Senate Passes 'Landmark' Gun Control Laws

[bobclark86]

25. I read the law yesterday...

and there is a LOT of very good stuff in there.

The only part I don't really get is the 7-round magazine ban.

You can HAVE a 10-round magazine, but you can only load 7 rounds in it... how the bloody hell do they intend on enforcing that provision?

10 rounds is a good number: The state already has a 10-round magazine ban on the books, all the manufacturers make 10-round magazines, they are plentiful and they can mow down a third of the kindergartners of a 30-round magazine. A 7-round magazine ban just sounds like they're begging for the slippery slope arguments (10 rounds? You don't need that... 7 rounds? Oh, that's too many... why do you need more than one shot anyway... Zero shots is the perfect choice!).

Under the new law, the 8-round en bloc clip (a single piece of spring steel) for the 1930s-era M1 Garand rifle is now illegal. Guess what? The way it is made, you CAN'T load 7 rounds in it. You HAVE to load 8 rounds. This law pretty much makes the Garand, what Patton called "the finest battle weapon ever devised," the semi-auto rifle that beat the Nazis and is STILL legally sold to civilians by the federally-chartered Civilian Marksmanship Program, illegal to fire in New York.