Fatal shooting at Denver screening of The Dark Knight Rises

I think that's how they got this guy...he used up his ammo and was going back to his car to reload. 100 round clips should be illegal.
 
Rana said:
This is another thing that needs to be monitored, like fertilizer purchases and sudafed! If your name appears on a list too many times, then an agent needs to pay you a visit to see why you are purchasing a great deal of ammo. Now I am talking ammunition for an assault weapon if we are going to allow people to own them.
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So certain calibers (like the .223, 9mm, .45ACP, and .308) would be more tightly regulated than other calibers?
 
WinterBorn said:
I would think that a semi auto AR15 would be capable of 200 rounds a minute, as a semi auto. You can certainly empty a 30 round magazine in short order.

No, not fully auto, but certainly rapid fire.
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Sure, depending on your own definition of 'rapid' in the term...However, as was said above the size of the magazine has more to do with the sustained fire than the speed, or amount of ammo a person owns, or can fire.
 
Rana said:
If not Aft then an FBI profiler trained in such matters.
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I think, unless the purchase of bulk ammo required sessions with someone or access to their home, this would not be a very helpful scenario. Could it have helped in this situation? I don't know. But unless he showed up at the door acting like a raving lunatic, it would be hard to show just cause to deny his purchase.
 
j-mac said:
Sure, depending on your own definition of 'rapid' in the term...However, as was said above the size of the magazine has more to do with the sustained fire than the speed, or amount of ammo a person owns, or can fire.
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see this is how gun laws should be discussed.

intelligently.


Maybe we need to limit the size of the magazines?


giving people a momment in which to jump the shooter during loading.
 
WinterBorn said:
I think, unless the purchase of bulk ammo required sessions with someone or access to their home, this would not be a very helpful scenario. Could it have helped in this situation? I don't know. But unless he showed up at the door acting like a raving lunatic, it would be hard to show just cause to deny his purchase.
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then we give the gun shop owners the right to refuse service to anyone.

Then that person has to shop elsewhere and or prove sanity.


gun shop owners could be given free training in spotting problem people and some kind of compensation for spotting them fro us.
 
j-mac said:
Sure, depending on your own definition of 'rapid' in the term...However, as was said above the size of the magazine has more to do with the sustained fire than the speed, or amount of ammo a person owns, or can fire.
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True. Also, rapid fire tends to be very inaccurate. I am far more afraid of someone carefully aiming a few shots than someone spraying rounds.
 
Rana said:
What does it matter? They track fertilizer, why not ammunitition for an assault rifle?
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Again, terminology matters....Assault rifle is an 'automatic' rifle...Not a semi auto.

Now, in order to buy any weapon, including a .12 gauge shotgun, they must bear a seriel number that is recorded when purchased, as to whom purchased it. That is a form of registration. There are stricter provisions already in place for handguns, and so called assault type weapons. Also, since the AZ shooting that Rep. Giffords was wounded in, there are also restrictions on magazine size....many of the things that are being proposed here are redundant in some form or another....That's the problem.

One of the biggest things that could help in controlling, and ensuring that weapons don't get into the wrong hands, would be a standardized CWP across states.
 
evince said:
nope if your sanity is questioned then it has to be a professional who detirmines wether your a danger to others
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Or even yourself, evince. But law enforcement officials, even rookies and poorly trained, make mental stability decisions all the time. Usually the dead perp is not given a chance to demonstrate his sanity.
 
evince said:
see this is how gun laws should be discussed.

intelligently.


Maybe we need to limit the size of the magazines?



giving people a momment in which to jump the shooter during loading.
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Limiting magazine capacity is something I have never been bothered by.

And yes, this is the sort of discussion we need. Not the knee-jerk, off-the-wall comments we have gotten from both sides of this.
 
WinterBorn said:
I think, unless the purchase of bulk ammo required sessions with someone or access to their home, this would not be a very helpful scenario. Could it have helped in this situation? I don't know. But unless he showed up at the door acting like a raving lunatic, it would be hard to show just cause to deny his purchase.
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Is denying HIS purchase a part of this conversation? If not now, then when is my position, WinterBorn.
 
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