how many mags?

"Are there any reliable recorded instances of a CHL holder needing or using more than 7 rounds, or needing to reload?"
Yes. There are videos of such shootings floating around. I think the Cali Jewelery store owner used 3 or 4 guns and empty them all in one of the shootings. not exactly a reload, but...
 
I think I've got about 8 FAL mags, 9 or 10 AR mags, 3 BX-25s for the 10-22, 5 or so for my pin gun, 3 for each Glock and the rest have either 2 or 1, depending on how many actually came with them. I do have only one for my bolt-action .22, a Stevens that I keep wanting to see if I can find another for, and keep forgetting.
 
"Are there any reliable recorded instances of a CHL holder needing or using more than 7 rounds, or needing to reload?"
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I've mentioned this before, but it's probably worth repeating.

There aren't a lot of shooting cases involving CHLs because not many CHLs actually carry and there aren't that many CHLs in the first place.

In TX, CHL holders make up about 2.2% of the population. Based on an informal survey of members of a local gun club (people MORE likely to be carrying than the average CHL holder, in my opinion) less than half of them carry on a regular basis.

That means that at any given time in TX, it's reasonable to assume that about 1% of the population is carrying with a CHL.

Last year (2012), the incidence of violent crime in TX was 0.41%. Let's ignore that a lot of those crimes take place in the home (where having a CHL is a non-issue) and assume that all of them took place outside the home. That's going to inflate our numbers, but I think the point will still be obvious.

So the chance of a CHL holder who is carrying becoming the victim of a violent crime in TX in 2012 was about 0.0041% Put another way, out of every 24,390 violent crimes, one of them will be perpetrated against a CHL holder who is carrying. That amounts to less than 5 every year in TX.

From the statistics about self-defense gun uses, we know that about 90% of them are resolved without firing a shot. That means that on average, every 2 years, a CHL holder in TX will likely have to fire a shot in self-defense.

All of that to say that ANY incidents involving a CHL holder having to fire a shot will be VERY rare. Therefore, the fact that one particular brand of incident (one requiring a reload) is rare really doesn't tell us anything at all. ANY incident involving a CHL firing a shot will be very rare.
 
I shoot alot of formal and informal matches. Otherwise I would have 1/2 the amount of mags I do.
My main carry gun came with 2. That's fine with me.
 
stats & %s....

Some people do not listen to stats or %s so no matter what you say or do, they are not going to listen or even care. :mad:
I read a article about 4/5 years ago about how with around 34,000 to 40,000 sworn LE officers in the past 10-15 calendar years served on the NYPD(City of New York).
A study showed than on avg, a police officer in modern New York City would need to work nearly 300 years to be involved in a lethal force event(member of service on-duty shooting).
From Hollywood movies & TV programs you'd think NYPD officers would be in many gun battles & car chases. Not true, ;) .
Another item I saw followed a NYPD first grade detective in Mid-Town South(the area of Manhattan many TV cops like Kojack & NBC's popular Law & Order work. She was "on the job" for approx 28 years & was a homicide cop.
The veteran NYPD detective stated she never had a use of force shooting & only fired her weapon( s) in training.

Clyde
 
I have two mags for every gun... Three for mini14.. Because I load them for different prey


I must add that only carry the mag that's in my pistol....

If I need more than a high capacity 9mm has to offer... I accept my fate
 
I generally have 3 standard capacity magazines per handgun. Add on top of that a couple handguns that have factory high capacity magazines so some have up to 5 or 6. As for rifles, I'm working on my first AR build and have a half dozen or so standard capacity pmags ready to go when I'm finished. I don't think many people have ever said, "man, I just have too many magazines". :D
 
When a Remington 597 mag is $80, and a Tikka one $150, I get by with online one.

I've never lost a mag either, it's either in the gun or being loaded by me to go back into the gun. Dreading the day I do finally lose one though.

Here's a fun fact for you all, an AR15 30 round mag in New Zealand costs, wait for it, $300.
So if I ever get an AR, I will get by with one mag for that too.
 
I like to have at least 4 std cap and 2 hi cap (if available) for each handgun, and a minimum of 4 for each rifle. I carry 2 spare 8 rd mags with my Shield, or 1 spare 17 rd mag with my 9C.
 
"an AR15 30 round mag in New Zealand costs, wait for it, $300"

Wow... Are they difficult to import? Do you have to register them there?

Once, during the height of the Assault Weapons Ban in the US - when 30 round AR magazines were selling at a premium in the US, I found a magazine pouch with 3 X 30 round magazines for sale at a flea market in TOKYO, JAPAN for the total equivalent of $35.00. These were US military issue - not airsoft or cheap toys.

Yes, I bought them.
 
Its the exporting that is the problem not the importing. It is fairly easy to get an import permit but to get a gun, or gun part exported out of the US it now cost 500USD, it used to be 250. And that is per part not for a single shipment.

If you knew someone on the US who would just ship it that could work, but if it got picked up at either end without the paper work there would be some severe consequences.

And most other countries wont ship out at all.
 
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