Reply #124: Let's make this simple enough for you. [View All]

[one-eyed fat man]

Detachable magazines have been around for about 140 years. Here is a design from 1902.


For a Glock pistols they look like this:


Installed in the gun they fit flush with the grip.



If you look and see how the magazine is made, an extended magazine is exactly that. There is virtually no limit on how long you make the magazine. If you didn't fail shop in high school and know what a sheet metal brake is, you could form a box magazine as long as you wanted. Even to the point of impractical.



The pistol has absolutely no way to know what size magazine is in it.

You can buy one for the same reasons you can buy a 45 foot sloop, a P-51 Mustang, or the latest Kesha song and music video, you have money and you want one. In most places they are legal. New ones, except for law enforcement use were banned for between 1994 and 2004.

And even if they are banned, oh say, like prostitutes on Craigslist, you have money and imagination...

While you're on your high horse, consider these quotes from Al Capone,

"All I ever did was sell beer and whiskey to our best people. All I ever did was to supply a demand that was pretty popular."

"Public service is my motto. Ninety percent of the people of Cook County drink and gamble and my offense has been to furnish them with those amusements. My booze has been good and my games on the square."

While I think William Howard Taft had you pegged!

"No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people."