Answer: No Florida law exists that refers to "high capacity magazines".
Every year there is a law introduced by some Miami liberal that uses bogus terminology like "high capacity" and "assault weapon", and every year the rest of the legislature resoundingly ignores it.
The term "high capacity" is meant to scare people into believing that a pistol which holds 15 rounds of ammunition is somehow deadlier than one that only holds 10. The truth is, a weapon's magazine size depends on its design. The classic m1911 uses a standard 7 or 8 round magazine, while the modern Ruger SR9 pistol is designed for a magazine that holds 17 rounds. Common varmint and sporting rifles often come equipped with 20 or 30 round magazines.
In addition, swapping magazine, with some practice, can be extremely fast. Watch this video. Sure, this man is a competitive shooter with a high-end competition gun, but with a little practice, an average shooter with an off-the-shelf Glock can reload his gun in under a second.
It is also important to keep in mind that most deadly shootings do not involve spraying hundreds of rounds of ammo. They often involve only one or two shots. On the other hand, in some high-profile mass shootings (such as the one at VA Tech) the shooter was able to leisurely swap out magazines because he met no resistance. Cho would have committed his crime, to the same effect, with or without a limit on magazine size.
Laws that limit magazine size do nothing to stop or deter crime. If law-abiding citizens are denied the ability to own "high capacity" magazines, criminals will still own and use them. Even without 10+ round magazines, a criminal intent on killing as many people as possible would face no real limitation other than having to carry a few additional magazines.
Cho probably could have been as deadly with a couple of boxes or a pocket of loose rounds. No one else was allowed to have a gun, and most people had been so effectively trained to wait for the police instead of acting to save their own lives that he faced no serious opposition.
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