Opinion
The latest figures are in, and they spell it out clearly: the so-called high-capacity magazines are a favorite among Americans.
We’re not just using them; they’re a regular part of our lives. With over 717 million ‘high-capacity‘,,, their word, not mine, ammo magazines out there, it’s obvious—the debate over magazine size is over, and we’ve won!
Here’s the breakdown from the trusted folks at the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF).
Of nearly 964 million ammo magazines from 1990 to 2021, about 717 million can hold more than ten rounds. That’s not just a majority—it is a massive tidal wave, and it shows what Americans prefer loud and clear!
Why do so many Patriotic Americans choose these standard and larger magazines? They work well for all kinds of uses, from defending homes to target shooting, hunting, and, yes, putting rogue governments in their subordinate place. These common magazines are essential for the modern guns we use today, helping them work just the way they should.
To those on the deep state left who keep pushing for stricter limits: You’re out of step with reality. Your feeble efforts to limit magazine capacity have failed—just like trying to use a screen door on a submarine—it just doesn’t work. And now, based on the numbers will never work. Time to admit defeat! You were wrong all along and have lost in a crushing defeat.
Our founding fathers made it clear. our right to bear arms shouldn’t be messed with. One aspect of that right is now clearly supported by hard facts/numbers. Nearly three out of four magazines can hold more than ten rounds, proving that these tools are as American as apple pie.
So, let the anti-gun groups and politicians [Republican & Democrat] who want more ‘gun clip’ restrictions take a step back. The people have already made their choice clear at the store and in the fields. While the Fake News media loves to call them “high-capacity” magazines, these normal-size magazines aren’t just a fad; they’re a core part of our guns and gun rights.
To everyone who values our freedoms: stand proud. The numbers don’t lie. ‘High’, err, I mean Standard-Capacity magazines are here to stay, a symbol of our strength and commitment to our rights. Let’s keep celebrating our freedom, one full magazine dump at a time!
Detachable Magazine Report 1990 – 2021
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About Tred Law
Tred Law is your everyday patriot with a deep love for this country and a no-compromise approach to the Second Amendment. He does not write articles for Ammoland every week, but when he does write, it is usually about liberals Fing with his right to keep and bear arms.
in your very first sentence and throughout the article you caved to the prog narrative, you used the term high-capacity magazine(s). that term is not real/legitimate, it is a prog, anti-gun slang. for standard capacity magazines they don’t like or want others to possess.
if the manufacturer ships them with the firearm they were designed to be used in they are standard capacity magazines. some aftermarket manufacturers make and provide a higher capacity magazine.
using high-capacity magazine is like using the term trans-gender.
So.. what does a “high-capacity” magazine look like? A Magpul 50-rd drum? A Schmeisser 60-rd? If not, I have the ticket. I have a KCI 100-rd drum!
Thank you. I preach the same message. We must refuse to participate with the “newspeak.”
“Here’s the breakdown from the trusted folks at the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF).”
I don’t know how or why you would trust an organization that endorsed William Barr for AG, supports the ATF when they enforce arms laws, and supported anti-2A legislation.
We, the supporters of the Second Amendment, and all that it entails, must stop letting the leftists control the verbiage because controlling the language is controlling the thinking. We must come up with an alternative to “high capacity”. There is no high capacity, just capacity.
Lets just call magazines what they are 20 or 30 round magazines. Those certainly are not “high capacity” in the jobs that use them.
Standard capacity or standard issue is the term we seek. The Progressive New Left and their anti-liberty propagandists have been corroding and eroding language to their favor for decades. Part of our push back is to take language and thought back and place it squarely in the realm of fact and reason. And just a note: I carried a Service Rifle and led and commanded those who carried loads of Service Rifles during nearly three decades in the Marine Corps. In conversation with civilians and wanna-be’s I could easily tag them as wankers when they used terms like ‘assault rifle.’
The RADICALIZED LEFT LEANING diaper wearing DemoKKKrats and RepubliCANTs MUST GET OUT OF THE FREEDOM LOVING AMERICANS’ LIVES !! STOP TRYING to INFRINGE upon OUR God GIVEN RIGHTS!!!! As the Lawful Chinese Ancestry American Lady stated; IF YOU CANNOT GUARANTEE THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT BECOME TYRANNICAL, I WILL NOT GIVE UP MY GUNS!” – nor my FREEDOMS!!
The estimated number of assailants to be used by a tyrannical government to storm individual homes could help determine the magazine capacity needed. Our current government used around 75 armored agents to surround the home of unarmed sleeping Roger Stone (01/19/2019). A “future” tyrannical regime would likely use at least as many henchmen to subdue a private citizen.
OH, I like so much the attitude of this article. I have about 25 mags that are 30, 3-60, 1-100 and two, count them two 10 round mags for when the wife is bench shooting. I think my 10 rounders are way outnumbered and very limited compared to the ones I have that are in common use.
You’re a slacker! jk! Over the years, I’ve accumulated a couple dozen USGI Stanag magazines (aluminum), 50-60 Gen2 & Gen3 Pmags, a couple dozen HexMags, and a few MFT for 5.56….. And then a couple dozen Magpul LR/SR mags for my AR10. I have a few 25 and 50-rd Ruger mags for the venerable 10/22 that I acquired for teaching my boy to shoot, and a 100-rd AR15 drum mag solely for the purpose of triggering the anti-gun left-tärds who hate our freedom! …And that’s just the rifle mags. I have spares for all my pistols too. If you surf… Read more »
Well? Dollars dictate what I can do and I am but two people, my wife and I. I bought my new aluminum mags from Palmetto for 6 bucks a piece about 12 years ago, right after O’bummer said he was going to start kissing on Cuba’s. Those were the words that made me buy a LE 6920. When he said that, and I thought, Cuban missel crises all over again. My wife, father-in-law nephew and friends agreed. I prefer the metal over the Magpul plastic because they do not stick when I push the release button but I have those… Read more »
Don’t let them give you too much grief.
To me buying mags and ammo is like building your food stockpiles. I buy mags 1-2 at a time, just like adding a 50# bag of rice. It’s easier to come up with $30 than $600 at a time.
No grief. You do what you can when you can. I have enough ammo, mags for me and the neighbors. Three say they are coming to my house if the SHTF. I have enough mountain house dried food for 2 years for both the wife and I. Believe it or not, that in a way is a good investment too. All the food has gone up a buck or two-three. With Bidenomics it is only going to go up and be more valuable. I would love to buy gold but I can’t eat it or shoot it or catch fish… Read more »
Of course you do.
Living in Colorado, I’m so glad that my inability to order standard magazines is just an illusion, because popularity was measured and the “war” is over.
I liked the “Gun Clip” reference.
FJB
FATF
FMayorkas
FSchumer.
These all need to be 86’d
8 Miles out
6 feet deep.
it’s not defeated here in my once great and safest state of VT, taken over by transplants. the fem-male politicians have been victorious in banning magazines here and worse. we’ve been forced to spend hundreds of thousands in court challenges and we’re still not there yet.
…the fight continues.
“Why do so many Patriotic Americans choose these standard and larger magazines?”
MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK?
I have to admit, I have two standard capacity magazines that each hold six rounds, they are , of course, for an older pocket pistol
Blame “High Capacity” on Glock marketing. When they first started selling in the US they had used that phrase to show the advantage over standard 7 round mags on 1911s
I’m sorry NSSF, but this is biased reporting and needs to be re-done to reflect the honest numbers. The data manipulation in the current report, as it stands, is befitting the antis style of biased survey… we MUST be better! You have manipulated the data to reflect an outcome you desire, rather than to report what the data says. There are no 29 round magazines, we all know this. To include the standard capacity magazine in a 30+ designation is a disservice to the truth of manufacture and purchasing. You would be better served to restructure the criteria to reflect… Read more »
Your forth or fifth paragraph you refer to them as ‘clips’ ???????
He bracketed “gun clips”, which is a “dig” at the so called “experts” who want to destroy the 2A, and take away your “assault weapons” and “high capacity clips”(see, I just did the same thing) rather than admit that they’ve sewed this current culture of “act out” narcissism in hearts and minds since kindergarten.
This author sounds like the kind of idiot who jumps up and says “we won!” right before his head explodes from a sniper shot. We haven’t won jack-squat until all of the unconstitutional laws/restrictions are rescinded. As long as I can’t legally go into a shop here in CO and buy a standard capacity magazine that’s over 15 rnds (or over 10rnds for back in MD when I lived there), then the “war on magazines” ain’t over.