I wonder if these banners will be smarter this time around.
The 10rd capacity limit created two inadvertent drawbacks they hadn't planned on:
1. If I'm a criminal and want to do a drive-by or a school shooting, then I want lots of rounds. But if I'm limited to 10rds before a reload, then I want the 10 biggest rounds I can get. So, I'll run 45acp or 10mm instead of 9mm.
2. If I am a new potential gun owner and shopping for a gun that I might carry or use to protect myself, will I choose the 10rd 9mm handgun that is 6 inches tall, or the 10rd 9mm handgun that is 4.5 inches tall? I'm gonna choose the one I can carry and conceal more easily. And as a new gun owner that begins carrying and learning the law and learning self defense techniques, I'm going to learn that the law is nothing but a mockery of force and how stupid gun control is, which is why the 2004 sunset happened.
Feinstein won't put an automatic sunset in this second one.
But will she address the capacity and cartridge size disparity? What about folks that will shove 12rds of 9mm into a 10rd .40 magazine and stick that in their 9mm platform firearm that was limited to 10rds? No deliberate shrinking of gun designs to optimize size to magazine capacity?
Has anyone ever had an ATF technology branch ruling on filling a 10rd .40 magazine with 9mm and inserting that into a 9mm handgun? Is that "manufacturing post-ban" of a high capacity magazine?
I also hope the 1911 fad doesn't come roaring back again. Ugh.
I think the AWB created the 1911 mystique. When limited to 10rds or less, the 1911 ain't that bad. Except for its inherent need to be fine tuned on the feed/extraction stroke to work with anything but ball.
I take out my dad's Sig, or my XD's, or my Beretta, or my CZ, or the Glock 21 I used to have, or my friend's Glocks, or even my brother's Smith SD... it'll run hollowpoints. Or flatnose bullets.
But... my Charles Daly 1911. Or my Sig GSR 1911. Or my Colt 1991. Or my Colt XSE LW Commander. Or my dad's Kimber 9mm. All of 'em required extractor tension tuning (and the GSR never ran right due to frame geometry defects). They'll run for several thousand rounds, and then loosen up slowly again. And then they'll start slowly failing with hollowpoints or flatnosed bullets again.
Yes, the trigger is awesome.
But to me, it just isn't worth the rest of the platform's liabilities. Double-plus so when you bring capacity into the argument also, but even still so when you live within the constraints of a 10rd ban.
I don't see a lot of 1911's on the face of gunrags recently, and this is good. But I suspect they'll be back on there again if a new capacity ban is enacted.
Frankly, if there is a new ban, I'd love to see a new cartridge come out in the G21/XD45 sized wunderpistol offerings... a 250 to 300 gr .475 diameter at 800fps. Call it the .475 PoliSlayer, or Liberator, or the .475 Declaration, or something equally menacing. Design it to fit the G20/G21 mag well with 10rds fitting it naturally, just barely.