Florida SB 254

Defines high capacity magazine as more than 7 (seven) rounds!!! (goodbye to ALL 9mm mags, all 8rnd 1911A1 mags, etc (unless permanently blocked to 7rnds).
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And how do you permanently block 8-round 1911 magazines to 7-rounds? They all use the same tube -- the only difference is in the follower and the spring. It's easy to convert 7-round 1911 magazines to 8-rounders (although I generally go the other way, since I don't trust 8-rounders).
 
In practical terms, this bill is dead on arrival. It's been shuffled off to the Judiciary Committee, where it stands no chance.

Chairman Greg Stuebe isn't a typical kinda-sorta-waffles in our favor kind of guy. He's an active supporter of the RKBA who refused to shelve an airport-carry bill following the Fort Lauderdale shooting (a bill he sponsored) and he's been a vocal advocate for open carry.

Vice Chair Lizbeth Benacquisto has also been a strong ally, and she has very high ratings from the NRA.

On the other hand, the bill's sponsor is Linda Stewart, a first-termer who's probably doing this to establish street cred for a US Senate run in 2018.

This has the Feinstein/Bloomberg fingerprints all over it, but it's also so overly broad it has no chance of passing. A few politicians may vote for it as a matter of virtue-signaling, but that's pretty much it.
 
On the other hand, the bill's sponsor is Linda Stewart, a first-termer who's probably doing this to establish street cred for a US Senate run in 2018.

This has the Feinstein/Bloomberg fingerprints all over it, but it's also so overly broad it has no chance of passing. A few politicians may vote for it as a matter of virtue-signaling, but that's pretty much it.
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^^^This. It's an effort by a new legislator to prove to their base that they are trying to do something. What they actually did was waste a ton of man-hours having their staff prepare a bill that they know (or should well know) has approximately zero chances of passing in FL.

Still informative to post these here though. It helps inform us as to who is who in our government, and remind us that many would love to regulate us to the point where a single shot rifle or shotgun would be all that we could own. Then they would plot to take those away.
 
IMHO Tom Servo's reference to virtue signaling is very germane here.

When this is the actual goal, it's often preferable to propose something so extreme or unworkable that it has zero chance of passage; in fact, it's often beneficial for the bill to be so over-the-top that it's quashed in committee without ever being debated publicly. This shields the originator from negative consequences, yet she can allege that her nefarious opponents conspired to bury her so-called "reasonable" attempt to address the issue. Most partisans will never bother to examine the underlying facts behind this claim. :rolleyes:

This game has probably been around almost as long as the parliamentary-style legislative process.
 
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