California ban on high capacity magazines declared unconstitutional

[Yonadav]

So we should only have single shots? Or no- shots?

The law applied to magazines of more than ten rounds.  If you're in a situation where you fire a weapon ten times and you're still not out of trouble, it might be time to re-evaluate your lifestyle.

Boru

I'm not so sure. The decision was backed by a substantial evidence that engaging in a firefight frequently requires more than ten rounds.  The police have arrived at a number of homes where a dead defender is found laying next to their empty 10 round magazine. That's actually not too surprising, what with firefights being firefights and all. I think that we tend to assume that a civilian firefight is just going to involve one inept attacker who is either going to die quickly or run away. But two or three determined attackers who figure they have a two minute window within which to press the attack can totally take advantage of the fact that their target is going to run out of ammo after 10 shots.

I have 10 round mags. I have no intention of getting larger mags. I'm pretty much prepared to defend myself against the lone attacker who is probably going to die or run away. But I totally know that I'm not prepared to get into a real firefight with multiple determined attackers who aren't going to run away. Hopefully, I can handle one determined attacker who isn't going to run away-- but I don't know that 10 rounds will be enough to take them. I hope it will be. I guess it mostly depends on whether I get a good first shot or not.