IncendiaryGunner
Master
I think the ban is certainly coming. The question is, how will it affect you? I am not advocating a law against hi-cap mags but in all honesty, the law never affected me earlier last decade when I got into shooting/carry during the AWB and won't affect me now.
I simply never feel under-gunned with a 1911 at my side and two spare 8 round mags on my other hip. 99% of the time I have a S&W 3913 with a spare mag or two and would never think this isn't enough to defend myself or family when I'm out and about. 8 rounds of Speer GD or Federal HST in the mag with one in the pipe and another 8 to 16 on my belt is certain to do the trick if god forbid I ever have to defend myself.
If anything, a new AWB will force people to practice high stress shot placement, marksmanship and quick mag changes, which to me, is half the fun of owning a gun...the other half is rolling my own!
Again, this is just my own personal experience and I am in no way advocating any new laws. Just offering an anecdote or two to add to the thread.
I do own 15 and 18 round mags for my service sized pistols but always felt that 30 to 45 rounds on me was a bit superfluous for self defense. Now in a situation of total social breakdown would I like that comfort...sure, but I am fairly certain that is statistically very unlikely to happen. We've been through a major depression and even Civil War and the societal glue held together. Besides, if I find myself in the midst of a zombie apocalypses I have no doubt that my 1911 and 6 to 8 spare mags all along my belt and a shotgun slung over my shoulder will handle my defense needs just fine.
To each his own but for me, I think a hi-cap ban, which is the MOST they could ever pass right now, would be no big deal....again, for me personally. YMMV
Maybe not anytime soon, and hopefully not in our lifetime... but given a long enough time frame, societal breakdown is almost statistically assured.
The founding fathers did not craft the second amendment to protect their generation, or to protect the guns they chose to keep - they did it with the hopes of protecting their descendents from tyranny in the future. When we fight gun control legislation, we should keep in mind that we are not only fighting to protect the guns we choose to keep - but the right of our grandchildren, and their grandchildren - to exercise their rights.