A firearm is
designed to do ONE thing, and ONE thing only - expel a soft metal slug down a metal tube by the action of expanding gases. That is the only thing they are designed to do, period. Where that soft metal slug goes is entirely up to the operator. Those here disputing that, and many others like them are deliberately confusing two words, design and purpose.
But enough trolling for trolls, the FACT is, the Glock 18 33 round magazines have been in this country for OVER 20 YEARS, thousands upon thousands of them in civilian hands, most for the grins and giggle factor. ONE time they are MISUSED in multiple ILLEGAL actions by ONE possibly mentally unblanaced suspect in ONE headline grabbing high profile incident, and now
everyone is a suspect. I reject that argument completely. You wish to punish ME before I have done anything on the mere suspicion that the possession of a piece of folded metal containing a spring will somehow be harmful to those around me. Are you the Department of Pre Crime? Do you slap tape over a person's mouth when they go into a theater on the odd possabilty that they might yell "FIRE"?
Sorry, once again, I reject that argument alone, as our legal system is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, EVEN Representative Giffords twisted assailant, and your reasoning is 108 degress off, making me the criminal becuase you think I might do something, someday, somewhere, with not one shred of evidence to support it, and mountains of evidence against it.
Want to ban a high capacity feeding device with a PROVEN track record of causing death and mayhem, (not the clever commercials), destroy lives and wreck millions of dollars worth of private property?
Wait, we tried that once, didn't we, and that one didn't work, either...