Efforts to ban high-capacity gun magazines, like the one allegedly used by accused Tuscon shooter Jared Loughner, are gaining some momentum. On Tuesday morning, Kelly O’Brien – the fiancée of congressional staffer Gabe Zimmerman, who was killed in the Tuscon rampage – joined legislators for a press conference to endorse House and Senate bills banning high-capacity magazines, or assault clips.“The man who killed Gabe and five others shot 31 bullets in 15 seconds, roughly two shots every second. He stopped only when his high-capacity magazine was empty,” O’Brien, a nurse, said at the press conference. “He was clearly planning on killing many more people.”
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