Only issue is that large magazines are needed for handguns and they can easily be modified to handle more ammo. When hunting, a rifle is needed as it is the right gun for the job. While you can hunt with a handgun, the problem is that they are not accurate at long ranges, but those bullets can go a very long way. If you are going to shoot, you want to be sure the bullet hits what you are aiming at and not fly past the deer and hit the other person hunting a few hundred yards down.
Having the right gun for the situation is safest as you reduce the chance of the wrong thing getting hit.
The problem is that since full auto guns are banned, there is no difference between what the government considered an assault weapon and one that is not. If your goal is killing lots of people, then a hand gun will get pretty much the same results as a rifle (the recent elementary school sooting was done using a handgun)
hand guns are better for home defense than a rifle, but rifles and shotguns are more popular for home defense in most state because the licenses for them, and the requirements are much lower (eg not having to take an overprices class and pay thousands on top of the cost of the gun just to be able to legally have it)
The end result of the state laws is forcing more people to settle with the wrong gun for the job
In the states when lax control, the most common gun is the hand gun (the reason being if you are not using a gun for sport or hunting then there is almost no need for a rifle).
The issue is that you cant really ban assault rifles without banning all semi auto guns, as for the end result capability, they are all the same. People get the military looking rifles just for the look (just like how people put spinning rims on their car or other stupid stuff) the actual hardware in a $200 semi auto rifle, and in a $1500 military looking rifle are the same and what you are paying for if a little extra plastic and mounting plates
Smart people buy guns based on the function and hardware and not on the look.
Reloading in a non panicked situation is extremely fast, ( if someone with basic experience with a rifle or a handgun were to shoot 1 bullet per second, they could reload and probably add about a 0.5 second delay at the end of each clip as they reload.
But if you are completely panicked from being under attack, you will reload much more slowly. (and if you look at any video of a killer doing a mass shooting, they are for the most part calm and collected as they are the ones causing the chaos)
Limiting the magazine capacity will only shift power in the favor of a criminal causing chaos
(if you have never fired a semi auto rifle or hand gun, I recommend you exercise your second amendment right and go to a firing range. I bet in a few hours of practicing, you will be able to shoot multiple rounds and cut your reload times to to about 1 second (especially if you have the extra ammo ready at your hip)
Now if you were being shot at, you would not be able to reload that fast (unless you went through some intense and extended military training), but just remember, what reduces your performance is the fear, adrenalin, and the various other right/ flight responses. A person on a killing rampage is not having that especially if they know that his or her targets are not armed and able to fight back. The last thing you want to worry about when being attacked is reloading, especially when dealing with multiple criminals.
For a law to be effective, it has to be able to reduce a criminals ability to to harm others while not weakening the ability of a law abiding citizen to protect them self. If you ban certain magazine sizes, it does not change the fact that there are mullions of large magazines already in circulation. and guess who will give those up and who wont if a law is passed.
In the countries where the laws were passed that are being proposed in the US, the criminals became more powerful relative to the law abiding people
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these laws have been passed in other parts of the world and they have never made people safer, they have only make everyone less safe
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