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What's your opinion on limiting the size of magazines to ten or twelve rounds?The media here reports that an assault rifle was used, a gun that can fire multiple rounds per second.
I don't know much about guns (obviously) I am just going by what the media has reported, and that is that an AR-15 style assault rifle was used...
THIS is why people who support gun ownership have issues with people who want to limit said rights more than they are now. There is a general lack of knowledge regarding the very items they are so afraid of.
The shooter used a semi-automatic rifle, that only looks like a fully automatic one. He had to pull the trigger each time a round went off.
There are several forms of ammunition load. Semi automatics take a round into the chamber "automatically" after each shot. A bolt action or lever action rifle requires a further action to "chamber" the round to it can be shot. A revolver uses a cylinder to place the round in line with the gun barrel, and can require another action to ready the shot, or not. (single action vs. double action). A pump action is similar to bolt/lever where a second action is required to chamber a round (pump).
Considering the ease of switching a magazine on a typical assault rifle, it doesnt make much of a difference. Maybe if an assailant was fighting armed responders it would allow them to take him out, but against frightened unarmed people, and considering the school shooter had handguns with him, a mag restriction doesnt really do much.
In fact, you want the idiots to use higher capacity mags, as they tend to have higher jam rates.