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MILLER: The high-capacity magazine myth

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Deception is the key component in the latest push for more gun control laws.

During her soap opera press conference Wednesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein used a liberal clergyman to give her the moral high ground in her campaign to infringe on the Second Amendment.

The Very Rev. Gary Hall, dean of the Washington National Cathedral, donned his clerical collar for the all-Democrat event to say he can “no longer justify a society” that “permits the sale of high-capacity magazines designed for the purpose of simply killing as many people as quickly as possible.”

The anti-gun crowd labels any firearm magazine capable of holding more than 10-rounds “high-capacity.” It’s a scare tactic.

Read the rest of this column here: THE HIGH-CAPACITY MAGAZINE MYTH

Emily Miller is senior editor of the opinion pages for The Washington Times. Her “Emily Gets Her Gun” series on the District’s gun laws won the 2012 Clark Mollenhoff Award for Investigative Reporting from the Institute on Political Journalism. Click here to follow her on Twitter and Facebook. 

 

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Emily Miller

Emily Miller

Emily Miller is senior editor of opinion for The Washington Times. She is the author of the upcoming book "Emily Gets Her Gun ... But Obama Wants to Take Yours" (Regnery, Sept. 3, 2013). Miller won the 2012 Clark Mollenhoff Award for Investigative Reporting from the Institute on Political Journalism.

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