BELLEVUE, WA – -(Ammoland.com)- A new video obtained by the Citizens Committee for the Right to keep and Bear Arms destroys the myth surrounding so-called “high capacity magazines” by proving that determined shooters using smaller capacity magazines can fire just as fast, and in some cases even faster despite having to reload.
The startling video demonstration, conducted under the supervision of Boone County, Ind. Sheriff Ken Campbell and funded by ArmaLite, “throws cold water on anti-gunners who argue that magazine limitations are necessary to prevent mass shootings,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb. “We are all indebted to ArmaLite for this informative effort.”
“Under Sheriff Campbell’s supervision,” he explained, “two shooters – an experienced man and a novice female – are able to repeatedly fire 30-round shot strings at three targets, using 15-, ten- and six-round magazines, all in under 30 seconds.”
The male demonstrator fired 30 rounds from a pistol, first with two 15-round magazines, in 20.64 seconds, then with three ten-rounders in 18.05 seconds and finally with five six-round magazines in 21.45 seconds. The woman fired the same magazine sequence, with two 15-round magazines in 22.9 seconds, three ten-rounders in 25.51 seconds and the final five six-round magazines in 26.93 seconds.
In addition, the man then fires 20 rounds from an AR-15 rifle using a single magazine, in 12.16 seconds. He then fired 20 rounds using two ten-round magazines in less time, 10.73 seconds!
“Imposing magazine capacity limits creates a horribly false sense of security,” Gottlieb observed. “This video puts the lie to this politically-motivated disarmament strategy.”
Sheriff Campbell notes in the video that, “One of the reasons that the magazine restrictions are being proposed is the perception that if the active shooter has fewer bullets in magazines he will have to reload sooner and this will create an opportunity for someone to tackle him during the reload.”
In a demonstration, that notion is also proven false.
“Magazine capacity limits offer no panacea to the rare mass shootings that have alarmed the country,” Gottlieb said. “It is time to stop this nonsense and expose magazine limits as the monumental fraud they are.”
Gottlieb urged firearms owners to share this important video demonstration with state and federal lawmakers. The video can be found at YouTube at: https://youtu.be/b2Upjn5DR0o
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States. The Citizens Committee can be reached by phone at (425) 454-4911, on the Internet at www.ccrkba.org or by email to [email protected].
You could fire almost as fast using revolvers and speed loaders too.
In my IDPA Club we call our magazines “standard capacity”, that which the pistol was designed for. G17 has a 17 round mag, G19 has a 15 round mag, and so on. Also “Assulat Rife” was a term Hitler coined for the Strum Gewher 44, fully automatic. So we have him to thak for the term democrats use to demonize our semi auto rifles, they likely don’t even know this!
Shhhh, no one tell Feinstein about the KSG or UTS shotguns. 12 gauge bullpups with 15 round capacity. I am actually surprised they didnt make her list.
Just try and take my guns and high capacity magazines. It’s time Americans push back and destroy these gun graber’s!
Just a thought here guys… While I was watching this video I was wondering just how difficult it would be for a determined person to pull off mass shootings if all he had were a couple of Joe Biden’s babies that he had modified for the task. I really don’t see how even a person with a double barreled shotgun firing on unarmed victims could be stopped as he reloaded especially if he were to keep one barrel loaded at all times just in case he were attacked by a well meaning person. Now add to that the damage such… Read more »
The Large Capacity Magazine swindle is just like the ‘assault weapon’ scam – both are based on vague undefined terms meant to incrementally destroy the 2A.