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Gun Control Reform Activism

Jerry442

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4. So, if a designer can design this:

Reply to ErikJ (Original post)

Thu Sep 22, 2016, 11:57 AM

Sep 2016

...The magazine release, on the right side of the receiver, could be operated with the trigger finger; when pressed, the magazine would drop free.

A fresh magazine, requiring no camming — or ‘rocking’ — could be inserted straight into the magazine well.

Why couldn't one design a gun with magazines that couldn't be swapped out without maneuvering the gun way out of the firing position and using both hands in such a way that the whole operation would take at least, say, 90 seconds -- and then legally mandate that in new guns.

Hell, they can do that with childproof caps on medicine bottles. Why not guns?

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