[sickofparadox]

1. All pistols (except revolvers) are semi-automatic.

2. High capacity is not a descriptor of a gun, but of the magazine holding the bullets.

3. The stats are all right in the link I posted. Handguns account for the vast majority of gun deaths, but gun control debates are dominated by talking about regulating rifles.

4. Sub-400 people per year in a country with 14,000 killings that year is a negligible number, regardless of any eye rolling.

[cameldrv]

High capacity is a descriptor of a gun in terms of what magazines it can accept. Prior to the 1980s, pistols were generally single stack low capacity like the 1911, 7 rounds or so, now they’re double stack and around 20 is common. This is extremely relevant to all kinds of gun violence because the vast majority of shots in real gunfights are misses. Revolvers were also much more popular than pistols prior to the late eighties or so when the Glock and competitors came out.

The AW ban that limited these to 10 rounds expired in 2004 and people have bought a lot of these guns in the last 20 years.