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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1083050" data-attributes="member: 14668">Lanza could have piled up the same body count with a pair of revolvers and a lever-action 30-30 Winchester of late 1800&#039;s vintage. Or a pump action 12 gauge shotgun loaded with 00 buck. Lever guns and pump shotties have tubular magazines with bottom or side loading gates that can hold up to 8 rounds...but unlike a weapon with a detachable magazine, you can &quot;top them off&quot; with ammo while continuing to walk around and fire and since the magazine doesnt have to be removed and replaced to reload, there is no interval of time where the weapon is inoperable. A 12 gauge in particular is potentially every bit as lethal as a so-called &quot;assault rifle&quot;; a single round of 00 buckshot fires 9 .32 caliber pellets with every pull of the trigger, so if you have 8 in the mag+ 1 in the pipe that gives you 81 projectiles to send downrange before the gun is empty. The bottom line is that Adam Lanza was granted a monopoly of force under Coneticutt law, he was the only armed person in that &quot;gun free&quot; zone, and the only thing that could have stopped him that day would have been a teacher or principal with a weapon of their own.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1083050, member: 14668"] Lanza could have piled up the same body count with a pair of revolvers and a lever-action 30-30 Winchester of late 1800's vintage. Or a pump action 12 gauge shotgun loaded with 00 buck. Lever guns and pump shotties have tubular magazines with bottom or side loading gates that can hold up to 8 rounds...but unlike a weapon with a detachable magazine, you can "top them off" with ammo while continuing to walk around and fire and since the magazine doesnt have to be removed and replaced to reload, there is no interval of time where the weapon is inoperable. A 12 gauge in particular is potentially every bit as lethal as a so-called "assault rifle"; a single round of 00 buckshot fires 9 .32 caliber pellets with every pull of the trigger, so if you have 8 in the mag+ 1 in the pipe that gives you 81 projectiles to send downrange before the gun is empty. The bottom line is that Adam Lanza was granted a [I]monopoly of force[/I] under Coneticutt law, he was the [I]only[/I] armed person in that "gun free" zone, and the [I]only[/I] thing that could have stopped him that day would have been a teacher or principal with a weapon of their own. [/QUOTE]

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