"Nobody Needs a 30 Round Magazine"
Yes, you do - maybe even a 53-rounder - and this is why.
In the disaster ridden areas in NC, TN, GA and VA, we are witnessing our government working against citizens. Reports are beginning to come out of bandits robbing aid trucks and government confiscation of property and aid money collected by independent parties. I saw a tweet from TEMA (the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency) telling people NOT to donate or volunteer and independent operators of heavy equipment NOT to start work to rebuild infrastructure (roads, river crossings, etc.) because only the state can do that.
Of course, the rednecks (my tribe) who have backhoes, excavators, dozers, tractors and dump trucks, told the state to piss off and went to work anyway.
I was just thinking that this is a real world simulation of what would happen if an EMP weapon was deployed or we are subject to another Carrington Event - a massive discharge of an electromagnetic pulse that wipes out everything electric or electronic.
Look up "Carrington Event" a solar discharge that happened in 1859, read "One Second After" a 2009 science fiction novel by American writer William R. Forstchen (that could leave the realm of science fiction to become science fact) or take a look at my post from June of 2021.
The gun grabbers want to know why you need guns and ammo, this is why.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-37120694
I trust your redneck, hillbilly, good ol' boys far more than our corrupt incompetent government.
I'll tell you why you need it for self-defense, and then I'll go further.
Most people don't realize that, historically, police forces have an approximate 24% hit rate when it comes to firing shots at suspects. Let's say you're as well trained and practiced as any police officer on one of those forces, and we'll give you an extra percentage point for good measure. At a 25% hit rate, you will hit an attacker with one out of every four shots. Since it often takes more than a single shot - let's say 3 on average (the number used in what's called a "failure drill") - then it will take you 12 rounds to stop a attacker. What happens when you're confronted with multiple attackers? Well, with the "common sense" restrictions places like California enforce, you ran out of rounds two shots shy of stopping the first attacker. If you're somewhere else and have a pistol with 15 rounds, then you might hit a second attacker once. If you have a rifle with 30 rounds, well, then you can take on two-and-a-half attackers. Of course, the statistics aren't a perfect science, but this example makes clear that limiting rounds in a magazine does nothing more than make a legal gun owner vulnerable.
Now, on to an even more critical reason. The founding fathers wanted to make sure that our *RIGHT* to keep and bear arms wasn't infringed by the government in case the government turned on the people. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist No. 29: "...if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens little if at all inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow citizens." The founders wanted us to own "weapons of war" *at least* equivalent to those used by the military. Don't EVER let anyone tell you otherwise.