“No honest man needs more than 10 rounds in any gun.”

— William B. Ruger

Ruger to Tom Brokaw of NBC News in 1992. ([Fully Loaded: Inside the Shadowy World of America’s 10 Biggest Gunmakers, Josh, Harkinson, June 14, 2016, May 31, 2018, Mother Jones, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/fully-loaded-ten-biggest-gun-manufacturers-america/]; [Magazine limits were first proposed by Connecticut gun maker, Connecticut Magazine, New Haven Register, April 1, 2013, June 6, 2018, https://www.nhregister.com/connecticut/article/Magazine-limits-were-first-proposed-by-11435654.php]).

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