One of my issues is with this whole thing is the dishonesty these people are trying to pass off. I understand the people making these laws want people to believe that anything over 10 rounds is “high-capacity”.
It seems to be very arbitrary because I have firearms that were designed and sold with magazines that held more than 10 rounds. So a 20 round magazine would be “standard capacity” not “high capacity”. When you bring this up their next statement is usually well who needs more than 10 rounds.
My answer to that is don’t tell me what you think I need when it comes to my rights.
I sure don't want to take your 20-round weapon away... although it does look like states that have passed laws looking to keep it to 10 or 15 have not taken your point into consideration. I'm not sure how they all mean to deal with this issue. "Confiscation" of legally purchased weapons would not go over very well in the USA.
My problem with guns in general as a former longtime resident of NYC is I still remember as a milestone the day in 1984 when
Bernie Goetz solved a problem not everyone thought needing solving the way he solved it. A gun in the hands of someone on the subway is just trouble no matter who's deciding "Now's the time to use this". The Goetz incident has remained controversial.
I was terrified when I happened to pop a token into the turnstile at the 50th Street station one afternoon and found myself smack in the middle of a frozen tableau, several cops with drawn guns to my right and a passenger or would-be passenger near the door of the train and holding a drawn gun about 20 feet in front of me. I like everyone else there froze too, thinking I was in mortal danger. The situation was resolved without gunfire and "nothing happened" was the gist of the official report, so I never did find out what the hell had created that scene. I re-lived it for weeks though after that, whenever putting a token into one of that station's turnstiles.
I've since asked myself many times whether if NYC had permitted the general population routinely to get licensed to carry concealed weapons, would I have felt better at that moment if I'd been packing heat, and the answer has always been hell no. I do realize it's a YMMV scenario in urban USA. However, I've been mugged a few times, usually by unarmed kids and once by a knife-wielding guy with a lookout, both in need of drugs money, but in none of those incidents did it occur to me that having a gun on me would have been nice. That's how it is with most muggings. A moment's inattention or misjudgment of time, place and intent... and kablam, you've just been mugged and if lucky, you get to dine out on it forever, once you get your new credit cards. How having had a gun stashed on one's person improves on that general template has never really been explained to me in a way that made me wish I'd been carrying.