High capacity ammo clips don't mean much. Five 10 round clips hold more ammo than three high capacity 15 round clips and are just as easy to carry.

Anyone that is crazy or desperate enough to commit this type of crime is not detered by the size of the clip.

What is causing this problem is a disparity of force, not ownership of weapons or capacity of magazines. Why are all of these shootings occuring in "gun free zones"? The idea of making areas gun free is to make them safer, but the opposite occurs because criminals simply don't obey the law. Creating gun free zones without enforcing them with armed law enforcement creates a kill zone, not a safety zone.

Those are magazines, not clips.

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What a pointless article. Also love the "unbiased" quote from the Brady bunch. FYI the Va Tech campus is a GUN FREE ZONE, which means you gun control lovers once again have blood on your hands for disarming the citizens.

This is a one-sided article with an agenda. Typical.

People such as Peter Hamm of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence are basically idiots. The perp reported had a vest full of magazines; it doesn't matter much whether the mags held 10 rounds or 30 rounds -- he had plenty of ammo because he carried it. It takes only a couple of seconds to change mags.

The real and obvious problem here is that VA Tech is one of those ridiculous "Gun Free" zones; hence, no one there was legally permitted to defend themselves. Contrast this situation with the one that occurred in Salt Lake City, where a Bosnian suffering from SJS was cut down by a bystander who was carrying his sidearm.

This is a horrible situation, without a doubt, but can we please, for once, blame the SHOOTER and not the gun? When there is a fatal car accident, we never blame the car. When there is a stabbing, we do not blame the knife. Let's put the responsibility where it lies and not start saying that hardware is at fault. A highly defective person is at fault.

It's a shame some of the students or teachers weren't armed- this would ended very quickly, with no where near as many innocent dead.

We as a nation could legislate against handguns and magazines all we want and will NEVER legislate criminals, stupidity or nut jobs out of exisitence.

How exactly do you "spray" bullets when only one fires when you pull the trigger? The Brady Campaign preys on your ignorance of guns and gun laws to pull in donations and further their agenda.

Brian Ross and Dana Hughes can't even get their facts right about the 94 AW law nor can ABC fabricate a legit connection between high capacity magazine availability and this crime.
Just the usual liberal bias against gun ownership.

You can't blames guns for what has happened. It is the people behind them that is the problem. If they had some proper guidance as a young adult then maybe this would not have happened. I have heard this before, but it is true.."Guns don't kill people, people kill people"

It was the person who comitted this crime that is to blame, not the instruments they used. Would it be a trucks fault if someone went on a spree running over pedestrians? Why are you focusing on the object used, and not the person who commited this horrible act?

It's not the gun that kills, it’s the person behind the gun. The 10-shot capacity only increased the price of pre-ban goods, and did little to limit availability.

Having said that, limiting handgun capacity is a band-aid compared to the number of cheap assault rifles available to anyone without a past record. Goto a pawn shop or online and you can find Russian and Chinese SKS assault rifles for $100 with multiple clips. Past massacres had people carrying several handguns and multiple magazines.

Limit the availability/sale of cheap guns to limit weapons being used in crimes. Everyone (good citizens that is) has the right to bear arms, but make it a significant financial choice than a grocery item at Walmart. Heck, tax the hell out of firearms and give special permits or tax refund to those in special/ high risk occupations. My thoughts go out to those involved in V.T. and others who experienced similar situations.

-A handgun owner and student-

A "magazine" is a place in a firearm where ammunition is stored before being moved to the chamber for firing. A "clip" is a piece of metal used to hold ammunition in position in the magazine, or to facilitate loading. A "detachable magazine" is a magazine that can be easily removed to attached to a firearm. The law you reference above refers to detachable magazines with a capacity greater than 10 cartridges.

Since the Virginia Tech shooter had multiple guns, and multiple magazines, I'm not sure why you think this particular issues is more relevant than, say, the illegalization of concealed carry allowing the victims an option of comparable self-defense.

Once again- a monster goes amok and immediately they start "blaming" guns and gun control. Let us focus on the real evil. Those sort of individuals that perpetrate deeds such as this.

Pray for those victims and their famlies. Their heartbreak will be unimaginable.

Get ready for the media-driven "guns are bad" backlash.

Congress did not renew the assault weapons ban because it was doing nothing to prevent crime. It did not effect the crime rate at all and you could still get most anything you wanted.

If you think that the AWB sunsetting had ANYTHING to do with the availability of high capacity magazines, you're sadly mistaken, uninformed, or pandering to hysteria.

Gun control doesn't prevent incidents like these.