Rep. McCarthy Intros Bill to Ban High-Capacity Ammo Clips

Bills that will go into the trash. Focus on the economy and not this BS

I doubt this dumb bill will pass John Bohner opposes this dumb law and will continue oppose attacks on freedom due to bias ABC gun hater liker this web page and freedom hatter like Rep McCarthy who is bent on banning guns no matter what.

Once you use your husband’s death to achieve power, all other acts of macabre opportunism are a piece of cake.
This woman is a human vulture.

Using the word “clip” instead of the proper word “magazine” just confirms that the writer knows absolutely nothing about firearms.

Look no real American would kill our 2nd amendment right because of some crazy nut. Maybe these liberal gun haters can blame the patriat act enforcers for not spying on us enough and seeing the warning signs displayed by this waste of life assasin.

when someone uses the word “clip” in the wrong sense, it just tells me that they know nothing about firearms. carolyn has already made it clear she knows nothing when she didn’t know what a barrel shroud was dispite it being in her own bill. antigunners just want to ban anything gun related. first its 30 round mags, then they bring back the full AWB, then everything needs to be registered, its a slippery slope and we can’t give them an inch. you can reload a handgun in about 1 second with practice. high capacity magazines don’t mean jack. logic be damned.

Is this all this congresswoman does is to strip away our 2A rights. Does she not know what the meaning of SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED MEANS. The constitution was just read in the house, but she must have not heard the 2A read or walked out during the reading or possibly never evn showed up.

How can you make a law that is completely illogical in its foundation? There is no basis for the argument to limit mags to 10 rounds. It is an arbitrary number, nothing else. A limit of 6 could make sense with 6-shooters. 7 or 8 would be plausible because of the 1911. Why 10? Moronic.

What the price of oil? Thats killing me do something about that OBAMA!!!!!!!!

WHO came up with ten as the magic number for gun magazine capacity anyway? Ever hear of the word “criminals”? Why do so many people live in a fantasy world believing criminals will follow the law by having ten round magazines every time they commit a crime?…don’t kid yourself.
Make it mandatory all congressional staff members(McCarthy especially) be armed, attend firearms training monthly, and have a concealed permit to protect themselves? if one, two or maybe all of them had a firearm during the Tucson incident they might have been able to stop that crazy idiot immediately.

Someone please tell her to cap the bottle already, I see the alcohol leeching out of her face.

For Joe that said:
Do gun advocates have anything better to justify 30-round clips than “freedom” and “2nd amendment rights”? I guess there is no logical or rational justification for citizens carrying military weapons in our streets.
If we want the extra capacity we should be able to purchase it and use it. I ask you you only work X amount of miles from your work place so you only need x gallons of gas to get there. So does that mean you should only be allowed to have that exact amount of gas in your car ???

I am a Dsabled American Veteran and am appalled at how little research these politicians do because if they did do a little research they would find that 99% of gun owners are law abiding cvitizens.
Acts of violence such as this are caused not by the gun or magazine capacity but a failure by the medical society and the young mans parents in not treating the person or knowing what their mental status is.
I call on all voters to vote out any and all politicians that rush to judgment about firearms and law abiding citizens that own them.
It is unfathomable how the US has allowed politicians such as the above named to remain in office. Certainly there are far more important things going on in NY let alone the US then to trample on the rights of law abiding citizens. What happened to the US?

I do not fear Loughner and others like he, but I fear members of Congress who legislate from the heart rather than from the cerebral cortex.
Ms. McCarthy, we feel your pain, but the more time you spend trying to push useless feel-good measures, the less time you will have to spend pursuing measures that may actually help to reduce gun violence.

This bill is as stupid as the AWB of 1994. It did nothing to take firearms of the street. In fact every time an ignorant person introduces a stupid ban, it increases sales! Go for for it you moron.

and why the hell is it ok for members of congress to carry firearms thats shes in favor of what about the rest of us common folk? we get to die on the streets like dogs im tired of these elite people getting special treatment go after the criminals not us

Anybody who signs onto this bill should become a target for the 2012 election. If a member of congress is willing to trash the constitution over the the act of one crazy, then they can’t be trusted and must be sent home.

correction:
The article reads:
McCarthy, who is regarded as one of the toughest gun-control proponents on Capitol Hill….
It should read:
McCarthy, who is regarded as one of the most ineffective gun-control proponents on Capitol Hill….

That’s like saying that a drunk driver won’t run into you and kill you because he’s only allowed to have a certain amount of fuel in his car. This lady needs to retire, she is useless.
But since they’re only wanting to ban “clips”, our handguns are safe. Mine, at least, takes magazines.

She did this in the 90s with no effect on crime. If you keep doing the same stupid thing over & over ??? Sorry her husband was shot on a train by a nut job, but this will not prevent crime.

Hey, we should also ban large dinner plates from fat people. Overweight americans is a huge problem in the U.S. This will definately help in the regard.

I can understand why MS. McCarthy lost touch with reality. Having a member of your family killed is going to be life changing. Either you gain common sense and realize you are responsible for your own safety or lose your mind and look to the government to be your god and protector. It is sad however that mentally challenged people are elected by sympathy votes and then take their anger out on everyone they disagree with. We all hope that some day she will be cured and can rejoin rational, thinking people. For now we can only hope people can be kind and ignore her and others like her and their insane disturbed ramblings. Blaming inanimate objects for the deranged acts of another insane person may even be sick enough to get you committed to an asylum under Obama care.

Representative McCarthy’s contituents who by the way, emcompass a large part of Long Island, should ask themselves if this woman has instituted any contructive legislation in her entire tenure.
This is a “One Issue” politician who has grossly neglected a number of other issues in her district in favor of her own personal agenda and vendetta.

How did this person get elected into office. We have all experienced loss. Sorry about your husband, but GET OVER IT. It’s not the rest of America’s fault a few people of ill repute happen to use this tool for their terrible crimes. If your husband was killed by a vehicle, would you have cars banned. Look around, wake up. Those municipalities have proven time and time again that OVERALL, there is far less violent crime when citizens are armed. If police and people were educated, and armed, this person may have met armed resistance. Those in the crowd that were armed were afraid to act because of the possibility of an uneducated Leo coming to the scene. I hate that this happened but another useless law is going to do nothing but boost gun sales. If her husband was armed, he may have had a chance.

Automobiles kill 50,000 people per year. Guns kill 20,000, half of those were justified. This bill will do nothing to change anything. If somone is bound and determined to kill anyone, they can. Now go to bed, and stop worrying. What is going to get you is cancer or a heart attack. Sleep tight:)

Banning high cap mags is essentially an an “assault weapons” ban. The recreational value many of these types of firearms is in discharging a large number of rounds in quick succession, at reactive targets like tin cans or clay pigeons on a shooting range. Some clip fed semi autos are used in competitive shooting events as well. The question is, should a million or so responsible ,law abiding citizens be deprived of their enjoyment of a safe and pleasurable activity because a warped individual apparently well known to local law enforcement, slipped through the cracks? Or,should known drug users who demonstrate threatening behavior be routinely confined for evaluation if not prosecution? The answers: No and yes, respectively.

The gun banners want us to have single shot pistols with one bullet in our pocket, a la Barney Fife.
I live in a neighborhood where thugs walk the streets in gangs of five or more. I need a hi cap mag to match their fire power in case they decide I have something to steal. To date, I have not had to shoot anyone.
Rep. McCarthy and others: do not disarm me – I can’t afford personal bodyguards.

The message is clear “the magazine is at fault,” so ban the magazine. And create 1,000 feet “Gun Free Zones” around the politically elite, because they are more important than everyone else. These measures are sure to keep “law abiding CRIMINALS” from breaking the law, cause for goodness sake everyone knows that adding those crimes on top of MURDER will certainly stop the criminal dead in his tracks … or maybe it’ll just make it easier for him to get to his victim.

I happened to turn to state run..er, public radio around the time of the “Craigslist killer” and they were reporting the guy bought his revolver (6 rounds btw) at a store I frequent, in NH (as a MA resident) with a NY drivers license.
I called to explain how the gov’t (unconstitutionally) prohibits sales of handguns outside your state of residence, you can’t buy a handgun with a NY or MA license in NH. The poor kid just kept saying, “that’s what the newswires say”.. I tried to suggest maybe RESEARCH!! or perhaps ASKING since they must know that they know zero about firearms…
Of course, beyond that – the idea of THAT store selling illegally is absurd. They actually put on every price tag a “MA compliant” checkbox and won’t even joke about selling a gun to a MA resident that wouldn’t be legal in MA… but to know that would have required committing journalism… good luck with THAT!
– NH 2nd and 10th Amendment – If all else fails… –

It is reassuring to read the previous comments. Unfortunately, our representatives waste far too much time pursuing useless and ineffective legislation as a knee jerk reaction to current events. Shame on the media for being a willing co-conspiritor. Was there a single comment in this “news” story that showed an alternate viewpoint?

I am so Tiried of this crap . But I guess there will always be Dem.

Gabby Giffords and I both own the Glock model 19, which holds 15 rounds of ammunition, but under McCarthy’s bill our magazines would become illegal.If the Democrats are allowed to restrict capacity to 10 rounds, what’s to stop them from reducing capacity to 6 rounds next year and three rounds the year after? Democrats can’t be trusted to protect our Constitutional rights, vote them all out in 2012.

Very proud of my fellow “posters” who fully realize that “feel good” legislation will not stop a criminal or a maniac. However, the military has got to start reporting to local authorities when someone flunks the psychiatric exam or admits significant illegal drug use as Giffords assailant did. If just one person nearby in Tucson or someone on McCarthy’s husband’s train had been carrying…

I agree with everyone vote for the other guy or girl get those fu—- dip sh–s out of power.Ill vote for the pro gun guy every time.And if they had open carry in every state those nut jobs might think twice.

Amazing how members of congress can carry firearms, in DC no less. I work in DC but no way can I bring my handgun into the city, even though I have a VA (non-resident) concealed carry permit. Unfortunately, Hoyer represents the part of Maryland that is comprised of “city folk” which makes this state democratic. Well, Sen. Hoyer, allow ME to be the “first” sportsman in Maryland to complain about the moronic gun control laws in Maryland. I am an Army veteran, fought for my country, at the time, I shot a true automatic weapon. I guess I am no longer worthy.

I guess these morons writing bills never seen a gun competition, where 6 round revolvers are reloaded faster than handguns with magazines. These guys shoot 18 rounds from a 6 round gun in seconds. Mccarthy is ignorant. This ban would do nothing to curb crime just as the failed assault weapons ban.

On this 1000 ft. thing-
Why do certain elected lawmakers feel that it is anything other than the tiger showing the true color of its stripes when they attempt to restrict the freedoms of the law-abiding while retaining those same freedoms for themselves? That bill sounds like something only a cowardly tyrant would write or vote for.

“High-capacity clips, in my view, essentially have the purpose of taking a lot of lives quickly,” Hoyer, D-Maryland, said. “If this individual, had he had a 12 capacity clip [instead of 31 rounds], there might have been a lot of lives saved….
Ok, so it was the high capacity magazine that killed all those people, not the individual with known mental issues I suppose. I would argue that ‘all’ lives would have been saved had a man with know mental illness had not been able to legally acquire a handgun.
The issue is not the instrument but the user of the instrument and the failure of other agencies.
Eliminating 30 round ‘clips’ does not stop persons with know mental illness from legally obtaining a gun with a 10 round ‘clip’.

McCarthy still can’t get it through her thick-head that it is a NY City Law and a little part of a Nassau County Law that allowed Colin Ferguson to do what he did to her family and the other people on that train that day.
The size of the magazine doesn’t matter when no one else has a gun!
Who said it was even loaded to the max? I haven’t heard of a 31-round magazine for any gun!
Those people standing around to take him down, why didn’t they have guns with them for AZ is a carry state?

They, politicians, don’t have a clue. They have no grasp of reality. 1. These laws only effect legal, law abiding, gun owners. 2. This won’t make hi-cap mags magically disappear. Like a padlock on a door it is simply meant to keep the honest, honest. If a criminal is intent to get a hi-cap mag. guess what? He/She will get it regardless of the law.

You know, the airplanes that they use to fly into the twin towers had max fuel onboard, because the terrorist bought as many tickets as they could to make sure of that. I think while we are at we should limit all airplanes to enough fuel to fly only 100 miles. It would not have mattered if this nut had 10 round magazines or 100 round magazines. Someone really needs to grow a brain before they start making laws on something they know nothing about.

Maybe a law should be enacted that requires all congressmen/women to cease all public appearance of any kind. Without this law they would be endangering the lives of the general public by placing them in the line of fire. As for the rest of the law abiding citizens of the US, we will take our chances while maintaining our legal right to bear arms and protect ourselves.

Clips are for hair. Magazines for for guns. Feel free to ban “clips”.

First lets start this off by saying Senator Lautenburg is attacking our rights. The right to defend your family, life and properly. If they really want to institute a ban capacity. Then i better see police and the military use 10 round magazines as well. I wouldnt want some cop with a Glock18 with a 33 round mag if i cant have one. And lets call this ban for what it is Idiocracy. a 30 round magazine is “normal capacity” a “high capacity” would be a 45,90, and 100 drum or magazine. I would hate to see America go backl to the Assault Weapons Ban and have this magazine restriction. I served in the Army for 5 years and i didnt serve so that we can become a police state. no sir i did not. I carry (CCW) concealed all the time and i use normal capacity magazines. I do own a few “high” cap mags but they are not for the sole purpose of defense there is alot of fun in shooting alot of rounds and you dont have to reload as often making shooting faster to do.
Summary: Senator Lautenburg I sincerely hope you reconsider. And next time you encounter someone and a gun fight happens i hope a member of your staff doesnt say ” sorry boss gott reload” every 30 seconds. because your life counts on it.

Also let get this straight my personal purpose for owning a gun is not only for defense but for liesure. But the main goal is for defense just in case the US decided to deployed 3rd brigade Stryker Battalion to our lovely streets in case os civil unrest. A gun in that time would be most useful…its about survival and defending against tyranny

PS: Really?

“It is a small sacrifice that LAW-ABIDING gun owners can make once again in order to increase everyone’s safety.”

Why should law-abiding ANYBODY have to make a sacrifice? Aren’t there already laws on the books that make it illegal to murder, rape, or cause grievous bodily harm? Why should I have to SACRIFICE my rights as a law-abiding citizen when it’s those dumb punks on the street that I’m protecting my self from? You think felons are going to go, “Oh, it’s illegal? Well SNAP!!! Here, let me just give you my firearms, sine it’s illegal now. I hope I didn’t bother you!” Yeah, that’s it, they’re going to bow down because you made it ILLEGAL for law-abiding citizens to protect themselves in the most efficient way possible. I think more people would have been saved if you could CARRY in NYC.