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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1067689" data-attributes="member: 14668">I have no problem with the idea of a 100 round drum magazine for an AR-15 being sold over the counter. It is no different to me than selling a 300 horsepower turbocharger for a Ford Mustang. Both the magazine and the turbocharger are inantimate objects that are only as dangerous as the person who uses (or misuses) them.To someone who knows nothing about guns, the 100 round magazine seems &quot;scary&quot; and &quot;dangerous&quot; and &quot;unecessary&quot;. To someone like me who does have experience with guns, the 100 round magazine just seems like a jam-prone waste of money. With only a minimal amount of training, it is possible to eject a standard 30 (or 20, or 5) round AR magazine and have a fresh one inserted before the empty one hits the floor. What this means is that...as far as the massacre of unarmed people goes...there is no real tactical advantage to having a 100 round magazine versus a 30 or 25 rounder. Any laws that are put in place to ban such magazines are nothing more than warm-and-fuzzy &quot;feel good&quot; laws that serve no real purpose and dont actually make anyone any safer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1067689, member: 14668"] I have [I]no[/I] problem with the idea of a 100 round drum magazine for an AR-15 being sold over the counter. It is no different to me than selling a 300 horsepower turbocharger for a Ford Mustang. Both the magazine and the turbocharger are [B]inantimate objects[/B] that are [I]only[/I] as dangerous as the person who uses (or misuses) them. To someone who knows nothing about guns, the 100 round magazine seems "scary" and "dangerous" and "unecessary". To someone like me who [I]does[/I] have experience with guns, the 100 round magazine just seems like a jam-prone waste of money. With only a minimal amount of training, it is possible to eject a standard 30 (or 20, or 5) round AR magazine and have a fresh one inserted [I]before the empty one hits the floor[/I]. What this means is that...as far as the massacre of unarmed people goes...there is no real tactical advantage to having a 100 round magazine versus a 30 or 25 rounder. Any laws that are put in place to ban such magazines are nothing more than warm-and-fuzzy "feel good" laws that serve [I]no[/I] real purpose and dont actually make anyone [I]any[/I] safer. [/QUOTE]

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