Despite threats from gun magazine manufacturers to leave the state, CO Gov. Hickenlooper says he will support a bill limiting magazines to 15 rounds if it passes the Senate and gets to his desk. And he says the shooting at Sandy Hook is the reason:
“You put yourself in the shoes of that principal and that resource officer running for their lives and trying to save the kids and what’s in their minds; and him just flipping around and he’s got a 30-shot clip. He’s got two 30-shot clips taped together. Is the convenience of someone at a target range not having to change their clip quite so often worth the risk to citizens and people in their neighborhoods?”
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