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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1116789" data-attributes="member: 14668">No, they probably wouldn&#039;t.Lanza used 30 round mags, but throughout the massacre he kept doing &quot;tactical reloads&quot;...meaning that instead of waiting until a mag was empty to replace it, he would drop a partially depeted mag out and pop in a full one during a pause in the shooting. According to the reports I have read, all of the magazines that the police found on the scene still had rounds left in them. Had Lanza been equipped with 10 rounders instead of 30&#039;s, he may have had to reload a couple of extra times, but not six. I also find it highly unlikely that 11 children were able to escape from the classroom during the time that he was reloading; even a novice shooter can drop and replace a magazine in less than 5 seconds with practice, especially if they have done the &quot;jungle mag&quot; trick of duct-taping a pair of magazines to one another.Here&#039;s another fact to consider. According to reports, Lanza spent the last two years planning, fantasizing and preparing for the massacre. Two years. Even if it had been illegal to possess 30 round magazines, is it realistic to think that (a) he would have felt any obligation to obey that law prior to committing a mass murder, or (b) that he would not have simply modified his 10 round mags into higher capacity ones (easy to do with basic hand tools) had the 30 rounders been somehow impossible for him to obtain during that time frame?One last question; why do the same people who justify banning hi-caps on the basis that potential victims might escape while the lunatic reloads his gun get their panties all up in a knot when you suggest to them that it might be better if an armed civlian just shot the lunatic while he was reloading his gun?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1116789, member: 14668"] No, they probably wouldn't. Lanza used 30 round mags, but throughout the massacre he kept doing "tactical reloads"...meaning that instead of waiting until a mag was empty to replace it, he would drop a partially depeted mag out and pop in a full one during a pause in the shooting. According to the reports I have read, all of the magazines that the police found on the scene [I]still had rounds left in them. [/I]Had Lanza been equipped with 10 rounders instead of 30's, he may have had to reload a [I]couple[/I] of extra times, but not six. I also find it highly unlikely that 11 children were able to escape from the classroom during the time that he was reloading; even a novice shooter can drop and replace a magazine in less than 5 seconds with practice, especially if they have done the "jungle mag" trick of duct-taping a pair of magazines to one another. Here's another fact to consider. According to reports, Lanza spent the last two [I]years[/I] planning, fantasizing and preparing for the massacre. Two [I]years[/I]. Even if it [I]had[/I] been illegal to possess 30 round magazines, is it realistic to think that (a) he would have felt any obligation to obey that law prior to committing a mass murder, or (b) that he would not have simply [I]modified[/I] his 10 round mags into higher capacity ones (easy to do with basic hand tools) had the 30 rounders been somehow impossible for him to obtain during that time frame? One last question; why do the same people who justify banning hi-caps on the basis that potential victims might [I]escape[/I] while the lunatic reloads his gun get their panties all up in a knot when you suggest to them that it might be better if an armed civlian just [I]shot[/I] the lunatic while he was reloading his gun? [/QUOTE]

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