(08-06-2023, 02:07 PM)Infolurker Wrote: COMBAT VET FACES FELONY CHARGES FOR POSSESSING 30-ROUND MAGS IN NY
https://www.guns.com/news/2013/02/25/com...n-ny-video
Mr. Haddad appears to have met with the startling discovery that the "freedom" he fought for can have a bitter taste indeed. 30 round mags were fine when he was killing Enemies of the State, but are suddenly verboten when he's not - they actually make him an Enemy of the State at that point!
This is one of the reasons I urge young folks considering a military stint to re-think it. Nowadays, what they are actually fighting for is their own subjugation and enslavement, and that doesn't seem to be an entirely sane course of action.
Don't provide the muscle for the State that only wants to pound YOU into the ground like a tent-peg.
ETA: it appears, from the circumstances mentioned in the article, that Mr. Haddad was set up by the State. Cops may show up if one is just sitting there, but the subject "do you have any standard capacity magazines on you?" doesn't come up unless they have foreknowledge that you do. They used to have a specific name for setups like that, back when America was not a communist dictatorship.
ETA2: A law coming into effect in NY bans any magazine over SEVEN rounds? That effectively bans all modern firearms other than revolvers. I know of no modern pistols that have such low magazine capacities. The Colt 1911 is the only pistol I know of with a 7 round magazine, and it can hardly be considered "modern" as the design is well over 100 years old now. Some bolt action deer rifles have magazines under 7 rounds - mine has a 4 round magazine... but deer rarely shoot back at you. My pistol has 17 round mags as standard - that is what it came with. I could not even get a 7 round mag for it, as they are not being made. So my pistol would be effectively banned. My rifle has 30 round magazines as standard. 10 rounds are the smallest one can even get for it - they don't make 7 round magazines for it... so my rifle would be effectively banned, too.
My Ruger 10/22 would also be effectively banned - it comes with a 10 round detachable magazine as standard, and they do not make 7 round magazines for it. While it is only a .22, the law in question would effectively ban it anyhow, because it has a detachable magazine rather than a tubular one, and the only exemption is for .22's with tubular, attached magazines that hold more than 7 rounds. So this new law is a back-door ban, a violation of the Second Amendment, and needs to be fought in court all the way to the Supremes if necessary, before criminals are the only armed people in New York. I would class any LE officers with the criminals as well if he or she carries magazines of a greater capacity than the citizens they allegedly protect are allowed. What's good for the goose is also good for the gander.
This ban would leave me with a black powder revolver and a 5 shot deer rifle to defend myself with... and what if the attackers are in a larger murderous crowd than those two dinosaurs were designed to handle? Luckily, I can swap out magazines on that deer rifle as fast as I can any other rifle, but I have practiced for that day when the deer attack in hordes - how many other folks have?
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