“Having shot Glock semi-automatics, I can tell you that it is a very impressive weapon--lightweight, accurate, simple to load and fire. What it is not is a gun for hunting. It's a gun for shooting people, which is what it was tragically used for in Arizona. So let's stop the nonsense.” — Alan M. Webber¹
“I'd certainly be willing to listen to ideas. I have always been a gun advocate, obviously had a strong voting record on behalf of the Second Amendment. That's just what I believe, and whether or not there's some measure there in terms of limiting the size of the magazine that you can buy to go with semi-automatic weapons -- we've had that in place before. Maybe it's appropriate to reestablish that kind of thing, but I think you do have to be careful, obviously.” — Former Vice President Dick Cheney²
Excerpted from “A message for Glock,” Editorial, New York Post, Last Updated: 12:16 AM, January 12, 2011, Posted: January 12, 2011
[SIZE="+2"]W[/SIZE]hy Loughner -- who'd been rejected by the military for his past drug use and arrested on drug charges -- was free to buy a 30-round magazine is a mystery.
Almost as much a mystery, frankly, as why Glock even markets them: They have no discernible civilian efficacy -- and damned little military utility.
Yet sales of the magazines reportedly are way up around the country in the wake of the Tucson massacre.
Here's an opportunity for the NYPD -- and every big-city police department in the nation -- to help turn this around by sending Glock a simple message: Halt all sales of the magazines to civilians -- or we'll stop using your weapon for our own officers.
The makers of the Glock must know that they'll pay a price unless they limit sales of the devices to those who truly need them.
Whoever they might be.
The stars are aligning. Now let's us step forward into the light of reason and limit the size of handgun magazines.
