Los Angeles leaders outlaw high-capacity gun magazines

Krekorian had also wanted another “gun safety” proposal – requiring guns kept at home to be stored in a locked container – to be taken directly to the full council, but it will go first to the Public Safety Committee, according to Thompson. Under the new legislation, possessing a firearm magazine that can hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition will be a misdemeanor. Anyone who already owns such magazines will have 60 days to remove them from the city limits or turn them over to police, which will sell, destroy or transfer them.

Next week, council members will vote on a revision that will exempt retired police officers from the law.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said he plans to sign the ordinance.

“Criminals will certainly not respect and obey these flawed ordinances”, read a statement from the gun rights group’s lobbying arm.

The legal threats, however, do not faze Krekorian.

The ordinance, approved on a 12-0 vote, addresses a loophole in a state law that bans the sale and manufacture of so-called high-capacity magazine clips, but not the possession of such devices.

Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Krekorian proposed the law two years ago following mass shootings in Newtown, Conn. and other cities and towns.

If that shooter had a high-capacity magazine, “there would be dozens if not hundreds of dead along Ventura Boulevard that we would be mourning today”, Krekorian said.

After San Francisco, LA City now also ideas to prohibit large-capacity handgun periodicals, which generally tool gurus suggest that can help load killing agents enact their ealier fatal aims by using better efficiency.

Calguns is one group that has pending lawsuits against the San Francisco and Sunnyvale ordinances. “People who want to defend their families don’t need a 100-round drum magazine and an automatic weapon to do it”.

Appearing at a rally outside Los Angeles City Hall Tuesday morning, dozens of gun control advocates joined politicians to support the regulation and call for stricter national gun laws.