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Originally Posted by Spiffav8
The talk of limiting magazine capacity won't solve anything. Anyone can drop a mag and insert another rapidly with practice. Doesn't matter if it's a hand gun or an AR style rifle. I'm not the fastest guy out there, but it takes me about 2 seconds with my Colt M4 and less with my SIG P226. If you do carry and are forced into a employ your hand gun defensively, you know you're probably not going to connect with every round. Scarey as you are fighting for you life. You probably won't have the opportunity to reload or may not have a second magazine. In that type of a situation you'll want as many rounds as your gun is capable of holding, so you can connect and eliminate the threat.
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The entire post was well said Curtis
To back the mag capacity debate, when shooting league with my .45 we shot one series that had a timed 10 yard standard torso target, you shot 12 rounds, 6 rounds in two mags, start with a mag in the gun chamber open gun on the table, hands in the air, commence on the firing line signal with 8 seconds to complete the series. All but a few of the 40 shooters could complete that successfully. I'm not tooting my horn but pressing the point of semi-auto and low capacity mag capabilities, 70% of the time shooting that series I would put all 12 in the 10 ring (target also has an X ring). I'm also pretty fast with a revolver and speed loaders. Point is with a little practice the speeds can be surprising.