"If all cartridges had been expended, then the shooter would have had to tap the slide release on the pistol"
Depends on the firearm.
Mine, the slide releases when a magazine is inserted, so it loads without any more effort.
Of course, the brand I carry is the most widely used by police & military around the world, so they're built with nice little features like that.
The less there is to manipulate in an emergency, the more likely you'll survive.
That's why I carry a loaded pistol. Nothing to forget (like the Aldi's incident), or fumble with, or wonder (even for a second) if the safety is off or on.
Point it at the attacker, put your finger on the trigger, press, & it will shoot.

+1 !!!
Use the RICO law, use the terrorism laws, shoot the felons who are attempting illegally to enter the country.

@Scott, do you really want to go there? Blacks are seven times more likely than people of other races to commit murder, and eight times more likely to commit robbery. When blacks commit crimes of violence, they are nearly three times more likely than non-blacks to use a gun, and more than twice as likely to use a knife. Hispanics commit violent crimes at roughly three times the white rate, and Asians commit violent crimes at about one quarter the white rate. The single best indicator of violent crime levels in an area is the percentage of the population that is black and Hispanic. ONLY 10% of youth gang members are white. Hispanics are 19 times more likely than whites to be members of youth gangs. Blacks are 15 times more likely, and Asians are nine times more likely. Of the nearly 770,000 violent interracial crimes committed every year involving blacks and whites, blacks commit 85 percent and whites commit 15 percent. Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against blacks. Forty-five percent of their victims are white, 43 percent are black, and 10 percent are Hispanic. When whites commit violent crime, only three percent of their victims are black. Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against a white than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery. Blacks are 2.25 times more likely to commit officially-designated hate crimes against whites than vice versa. Your turn.

Yes, they're bad too. All of their crimes should be punished. (Actual crimes, not thought crimes.)
But as Sparky points out, they're not the biggest problem.

@David
Good guy has revolver, bad guy has (insert gun of choice not a revolver), who wins? Not the revolver.

You logic is so flawed, that I must question your intelligence.

You don't get to make that decision for me. If you want an 8 rd magazine go right ahead.

I want the most possible, especially at the range.

This is for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeQiVBvy0m0

Ignorance is bliss.

13 shots in 4.2 seconds. *GRAPHIC WARNING*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHeOR3-vlVU

8 times on the body, 2 in the extremities and once in the head.

I always thought it was twice in the chest, and once in the head, and even the Jolly Green Giant is dead. Police have a State issued license to murder.

I heard the gunfire for this one....

November 16, 1998 - RACINE Police shot and killed a 47-year-old Racine man Sunday at the end of a nearly five-hour armed standoff that began as a family disturbance

After police tried to contact Tabet by phone without success, members of the department's Tactical Unit placed a loudspeaker near his door. Tabet reportedly opened the door and pointed a rifle at the nearest officer; police retaliated and shot Tabet to death.

ODD - The facts seemed to have disappeared - the SWAT Team shot him ten times with fully automatic H&K MP-5's.

David. Last time you brought up this rather sad point about law enforcement, I recommended you research the death of Captain James Lutz (Waukesha Police Department) at the hands of the Oswalds. This case showed us locally that our police at the time were not properly equipped to deal with the threat. Now, when the public is better armed than ever before, you want our law enforcement officials to regress back to those days.

Once again, you show that your claims to be a moderate are blatant lies.

@JB If the bad guy shoots as accurately as the police average above --- I think I will stick with my 454 casull --- it is not how many shots you fire --- it is how many times you hit the target, and with the casull, once will almost always do the job

@Terry Nice anecdotal story -- now tell me the actual statistics of civilians killed from police who loose off a dozen quick shots ...... of course we could give the cops 50 cals mounted on their cars --

@David
Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight and don’t bring limited ammo when your enemy has unlimited.

You continue to make illogical statements.

1) You are willing to require the good guy to play the odds as they approach a crime a scene. They are expected to conserve ammo and take precise shots while the bad guy sprays his location with lead. Since the bad guy is taking less precise shots you are assuming the cop has the law of averages on his side.

2) You are also assuming that the bad guys won’t adjust their actions with the understanding that the good guy has limited ammo. The chances of the good guy being pinned down or enticed to shoot at low percentage targets in an effort to waste the little ammo he has will become very high. Not to mention if there is a second bad guy.

3) You are assuming good guys won’t simply leave. Look at Detroit and most other inner cities. The good guys are just leaving those areas to rot rather then deal with your backward liberal logic. The bad guys have taken over our cities and you want to give them the upper hand.

David seems to have problems with law enforcement . Just sayin'.

Why do you want people to be less able to protect themselves?
I don't care if we're talking about police, military, or citizens. Since you can't get the bad guys to play by your rule (limited ammo capacity), I'm not giving up my numeric advantage (normal ammo capacity).

Take the State Fair race riot as an example. (Where the perpetrators / attackers were all black, & nearly all the victims were white.)

Would you want a 6-shot revolver, or would you want my 18-round semiauto pistol?
It may not take all 18 rounds to persuade the mob it should go away from you, but I'm betting it'll take more than 6. And revolver reloads are slow. (Compared to regular semiauto pistols.)

Closer to home for me, a teen mob of about a dozen black males attempted to attack me last summer.
A mob attack is an imminent threat of death.
Luckily I was on my motorcycle & was able to get away in time.
But if I'd been on foot they would definitely have caught me, since I can't run anywhere near as fast as the average teen male. I'm not as strong either.
If I'd only had 6 shots, which one of them would you want me to stop?
Under stress, about half of police shots miss their intended target. So I'd expect 3 to connect.
It's rare that 1 shot will stop an attacker.
Even if I'd been monumentally lucky & landed 1 shot on 6 attackers, that leaves 6 uninjured & still able to harm me while I try to reload.

And by the way, I see you've bought into the anti-gun rhetoric.
"High-capacity magazines" are in most cases the perfectly normal regular-capacity magazines which are sold by the manufacturer with the firearm from the factory.

A few only come with (are only made for) stunted 10-round capacity because of states like CA (& now NY).
My daily carry has a normal capacity of 17+1. That's how it comes from the factory.
I can get a high-capacity magazine in 33 or 100 rounds, but why would I?
Those jam more & are difficult to use.
They take up more space, are awkward to carry, etc.

If you want to save lives, require criminals to only use high-capacity magazines. When they jam (as happened in the Giffords assassination attempt) it would give an opportunity for educated bystanders to jump the murderer.

Same for firearms. If they're not legal for citizens, they're not being sold to LEO / LEA. I wish I could see their faces when they get the denial letter. :D

I remember watching those Rodney King riot videos. Those Koreans protecting their stores from black and HIspanic looters reminded me of the recent television footage in Egypt where an older man was standing outside his store with a shotgun. The rioters and streetgangs would have caused many more assaults and taken more lives if us law abiding good citizens had been unarmed. Praise the lord and pass the ammunition!

The liberal nuts don't' get to define magazines as "high capacity"
In my book it is just a magazine that holds rounds of ammo.
It is another way they try and frame a debate, they created, with adjectives.

@ AA On the other hand --- what about those NOLA cops who disarmed civilians after Katrina ? And are you saying that a store owner with a 12 ga shotgun wouldn't have been just as able to deter looters as someone with a 30 round AR ?

@ Mr L Since so many folks commenting here like Anecdotes --- here is one that never happened when the cops had revolvers:

Amadou Bailo Diallo (September 2, 1975 – February 4, 1999) was a 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea who was shot and killed in New York City on February 4, 1999 by four New York City Police Department plain-clothed officers: Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon and Kenneth Boss, who fired a combined total of 41 shots, 19 of which struck Diallo, outside 1157 Wheeler Avenue in the Soundview section of The Bronx. The four were part of the now-defunct Street Crimes Unit. All four officers were acquitted at trial in Albany, New York.

NOTE that Mr Diallo was enclosed in a small apartment entranceway --- pretty much a fish in a barrel -- yet the cops missed him with more than half their shots --- maybe in NYC 41 shots at an unarmed man is considered a stern warning.

Yeah, we know that NYC cops are terrible shots. Heck, recently they hit what was it... 9 bystanders in their failed attempt to hit a murderer?

@Terry my note above -- NOLA cops were disarming civilians --- which I think was criminal on their part -- but I don't see how you come to the conclusion that everybody needed 30 round clips ---

I can come to that conclusion largely because I have training in firearms David.

If you work on the assumption that you are just facing one potential attacker, then the argument that extended round magazines aren't as necessary holds more weight. What about two attackers, or three? Or a pack of five or six attackers as we saw in New Orleans?

Anyone with any firearms training can tell you that three ten round magazines are not the same as one thirty in those situations. There is a time associated with reload, and in can distract your attention from the attackers.

Also, as anyone in the field can tell you, the reload is where you tend to get weapon malfunctions. It is in the reload that you have the greatest chance of the weapon going out of service. Dropped magazines. Poorly seated magazines. Double feeds.

During the reload is the most dangerous time for you in a gunfight. Something to be avoided if possible.

you want to neuter your mag capacity..be my guest.
those that want to harm us dont care about laws, or limitations.

what is a "clip"?
oh, thats right...jsut another media keyword to confuse/misinform the sheep

David, I've never heard of a clip which held 30 rounds.
The most I've seen is maybe 6.
Do you maybe mean 'magazines'? Because those do come in larger capacity, esp. as the caliber decreases (smaller bullets).
But as Terry points out, malfunctions are bad. And contrary to his experience, things like the Giffords assassination attempt show that higher-capacity magazines malfunction more often. That's how the crowd was able to jump him safely.

no doubt. Failboat Captian there...

They're cheaper than buying a Corvette.

Sarah must have been around the block way way too many times to come up with that bit of personal knowledge.

You obviously don't know anything about firearms, given your reference to "extended clips".
Maybe you've had too many customers who thought they were men who also didn't know the difference, and you've made the connection between their failures.

Besides, it's only the anti-rights people who connect firearms to sexual organ size.
Looking at it rationally, if your premise were true, then no man would carry a 5-shot snubnose revolver. Heck, it wouldn't even have been invented.

Since only semiautos use magazines, of course the restriction would only apply to them. And yes, in some situations it's faster to get another gun than to reload. But I don't think I'd want to shoot with 2 hands at once unless it was a mob situation.

@ Lynne

"Since only semiautos use magazines..."

Plenty of bolt-action rifles, for example, use magazines.