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CALIFORNIAN buy 1 MILLION high capacity magazines in ONE WEEK after judge overturns ban....
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More than a million high-capacity ammunition magazines flooded into California during a one-week window created when a federal judge temporarily threw out the state's ban, gun owners' groups estimated on Thursday.
Ruger Firearms announced it was releasing its entire inventory. South Carolina-based Palmetto State Armory announced in a Facebook ad that it was 'prepared to send a whole lot of freedom to our friends in California,' but warned of delays due to high demand.
'The pipeline was open and it was flowing, on all platforms - people showing up (in stores), online - I'm guessing that UPS and FedEx had a field day,' said Gun Owners of California president Sam Paredes. 'It was a frenzy.'
He said an estimate of a million magazines 'seems a little bit low.'
Chuck Michel, an attorney for the National Rifle Association and the California Rifle & Pistol Association, has a photograph of empty racks at a Bass Pro Shops store in Las Vegas that used to hold magazines before Californians flocked to the neighboring state to stock up. California's more than 2.5 million gun owners together have nearly 20 million guns, many of which can use the extended magazines.
By week's end, Michel said, 'you couldn't get one anywhere, because all that inventory had been diverted to California. That's probably at least a million magazines, probably approaching two to several hundred thousand people.'
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