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Kelly isn't shooting with just any kind of gun he's using a Glock 9 millimeter handgun, the same kind of gun his wife was shot with. "But in that case it had a magazine that held 33 rounds," he said. "This, when it's full, holds 17." The gun is actually Giffords' Kelly said he gave it to his wife as a gift years ago.
"She's a gun owner," he said. "She's from the West."
Giffords and Kelly argue because of their love of guns, they have more credibility in their fight to expand background checks to private gun sales.
Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/08/gabby-giffords-still-loves-gun-culture/?hpt=hp_c4
Universal background checks and limits on magazine size - I hope they are successful in getting these laws passed.
aikoaiko
(34,127 posts)that DiFi is trying to ban.
That's gotta hurt the cause.
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)It will help our cause.
We pro-2A'ers can easily find common cause with Gabby & Mark, if the gun control they seek still allows for semi-automatic weapons in common use, and their associated standard-capacity magazines.
k&r,
-app
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)I respectfully disagree about the utility of magazine size limits. They would infringe too much on peaceable firearms enthusiasts, while providing little check against the possibility of gun crimes. Unless you are willing to go to an extreme: a limit of say 3 or 5 rounds with a fixed magazine, where is the benefit of reducing AK, AR, or Glock mags from their (once) easily-available sizes to ten-rounds? These firearms were designed around a standard magazine as part of each of their designs for a reason, and their designs permit rapid mag changes. The problems of violence, crime, and mental illness can be better solved by addressing the root causes, rather than passing feel-good but ultimately futile and arbitrary limits on hardware.
Glad to hear that Mark Kelly is comfortable with the standard capacity of a Glock. He and Gabby both are courageous people who have endured & survived unspeakable tragedy.
-app
Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)appal_jack
(3,813 posts)Right. Sure. Yeah. Thanks.
Naturally, the proper way to respect victims of gun violence is to support feel-good, ineffective legislation that pisses all over the Constitution but will not likely change gun death rates one whit.
backatcha, buddy.
-app
Robb
(39,665 posts)Fight tooth and nail against EVERY PIECE of potential legislation, convince your membership and whatever legislators you influence that the tiniest effort is the end of the Republic -- then tell everyone how ineffective the laws that emerge are, that they won't do any good.
Effective in the past, but increasingly transparent lately.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)10 round limits will certainly allow you to enjoy your 2nd amendment rights (especially if you join the Guard) AND will impact the amount of firepower readily available to a shooter.
Agree with you that more severe restrictions would be more effective, but those would also cause even more inconvenience.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Passing pointless feel-good measures might advance the careers of politicians in certain districts, but there are proposed measures that might have a real effect on gun-related crime. Lets spend political capital on those.
Union Scribe
(7,099 posts)This is a good reminder that gun ownership CAN coexist with responsible policies.
Crepuscular
(1,057 posts)one of the more prolific anti-gun posters recently made the observation that anyone who shoots at jugs filled with water is a sick and twisted individual because the intent is clearly to simulate an exploding head. Wonder if he holds Mark Kelly to that standard.