California State Senator Kevin De León is the laughingstock of the shooting community, thanks to a howlingly ignorant press conference he gave about a piece of legislation he's introduced to ban firearms that don't exist, to do things that are mechanically impossible:
This is a "ghost gun." This right here has ability with a 30-caliber clip to disperse with 30 bullets within half a second. 30-magazine clip in half a second ....
There are no such thing as "30-magazine clips"… or at least there weren't until Jerry Miculek, one of the fastest professional shooters of all time, decided to get involved, and cobbled one together by duct-taping and rubber-banding a standard capacity 30-round AR-15 magazine to M1 Garand en-bloc clips. [hat-tip: The Gun Wire]
Despite being a multiple world-record holder in speed-shooting, Jerry couldn't make his "30-caliber clip" "disperse with 30 bullets within half a second."
Something's defective here…
… and I don't think it's Jerry Miculek.
Author: Bob Owens:
Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. A long-time shooting enthusiast, he began blogging as a North Carolina native in New York at the politics-focused Confederate Yankee in 2004. In 2007 Bob began writing about firearms, gun rights, and crime at Pajamas Media, and added gun and gear reviews for Shooting Illustrated in 2010. He is a volunteer in the Appleseed Project, where he shares stories of our shared American heritage and teaches traditional rifle marksmanship. His personal blog is bob-owens.com, and he can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.