@Hannah Davis "don't see any reason why anyone else would need these other than wrecking havoc, but that is just my opinion." What seems to be misinterpreted, and quite often, is that a great percentage of "hunting" use firearms can instantly become "high capacity" weapons, no different in that respect than "assault" weapons. The only difference is that most assault weapons are black, a ridiculous difference which has been used, mainly by politicians, to differentiate between hunting rifles and assault rifles. Any firearm using a magazine to load it's ammunition is capable of carrying and firing the same number of rounds as an AR-15, for example. This fact was used as a reason to ban all magazines of over 10-round capacity in 1993 for 10 years, with the stipulation that results of that ban be reviewed by Congress regarding it's effectiveness in reducing criminal firearms use. Congress ignored that stipulation in 2003, and the ban ended, with all of us wondering exactly what it had achieved. Meanwhile, some states as well as municipalities have banned high capacity magazines. Effectiveness of such bans is dubious, if not nonexistent. Literally billions of high-capacity magazines are in existence within the "gun culture" of our country. They were grandfathered during the 10 year ban, and propagation of newly manufactured magazines has since 2003 virtually flooded the culture with magazines. Think they impossible to obtain in those places having banned them? Difficult to obtain? Frank
Are you serious? This guy was reported to the FBI more than once and they made the assumption that the person reporting him was a bigot and refused to follow up on it. A gun dealer also reported him later because he was trying to buy body armor and the gun dealer considered him to be suspicious. Probably because he was Muslim, they refused to follow up on it. He was a security guard often contracted to Homeland Security, so he would have had access to a gun regardless. The laws that are already in place would have prevented this guy from having access to a gun but, because of our current Administration's refusal to consider Islam as a potential threat, having a relation to terrorism, no one would follow up on any of it. So your solution is to take guns away from people who aren't dangerous? Really?
According to Judge Andrew Napolitano, who usually makes sense, no one died in Orlando until after the SWAT team entered the building. I don't have live television so I haven't watched his show, so this is what I have on it. The soundbite that is included is from Fox News, however.