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<blockquote data-quote="JesseR" data-source="post: 2024926" data-attributes="member: 5258">And with regards to the possibility of banning and making high capacity magazines illegal, I hear your concerns, but this is a little hard to believe though logistically. I have no way to know how many hi-cap mags exist in the US, or how many people own them, but just for grins let&#039;s estimate. I&#039;ve heard claims there are 300M - 500M guns in the US. Let&#039;s take the middle - 400M. Let&#039;s go conservative and say that 20% are evil black guns or pistols. That gives us 80M evil guns that likely came with at least one magazine, probably two. And everyone I know that has an evil gun has bought 2 to 20 more mags, but let&#039;s say they only bought 2. That&#039;s 80M guns X 4 mags (2 original and 2 extra) = 320M mags. Likely owned by 20M people. That&#039;s around 7% of the population of the US.The US prison population today is right around 2M. Do you think they would criminalize 20M people overnight or by some arbitrary date? Also, 320M mags * $25 avg cost = $8B confiscated by the Feds? Think there might be some lawsuits over that? I think you&#039;ll see an attempt to stop the import and sale of them - the attempt. Let&#039;s stop them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JesseR, post: 2024926, member: 5258"] And with regards to the possibility of banning and making high capacity magazines illegal, I hear your concerns, but this is a little hard to believe though logistically. I have no way to know how many hi-cap mags exist in the US, or how many people own them, but just for grins let's estimate. I've heard claims there are 300M - 500M guns in the US. Let's take the middle - 400M. Let's go conservative and say that 20% are evil black guns or pistols. That gives us 80M evil guns that likely came with at least one magazine, probably two. And everyone I know that has an evil gun has bought 2 to 20 more mags, but let's say they only bought 2. That's 80M guns X 4 mags (2 original and 2 extra) = 320M mags. Likely owned by 20M people. That's around 7% of the population of the US. The US prison population today is right around 2M. Do you think they would criminalize 20M people overnight or by some arbitrary date? Also, 320M mags * $25 avg cost = $8B confiscated by the Feds? Think there might be some lawsuits over that? I think you'll see an attempt to stop the import and sale of them - the attempt. Let's stop them. [/QUOTE]

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