LISTEN TO THE DEMOCRATS CLAIM IT'S THE GUN'S FAULT FOR THE SHOOTING.

Former Obama administration official goes after ‘high magazine clips’ on Fox News

February 25, 2018

Kevin Harber / CCL

A Fox News Channel commentator recently embarrassed herself during a discussion of Second Amendment issues in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting that occured earlier this month.

In a live segment on Outnumbered on Friday, regular panelist and former Barack Obama administration official Marie Harf askedwhether gun owners really need “high magazine clips.”

Second Amendment not absolute

Harf, who served in the Obama administration as senior advisor of strategic communications at the State Department, observed that even the late conservative Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia said the right to keep and bear arms isn’t absolute — that it has limitations.

“Justice Scalia wrote, ‘the Second Amendment is not unlimited,'” Harf said. “Republicans…say any gun restrictions that Democrats put forward is against the Second Amendment. That’s not the case!”

She obliviously added:

You can be a supporter of the Second Amendment and also say, “maybe we shouldn’t have high magazine clips,” for example.

The difference

While contributors to the show continued to debate whether assault weapon bans are constitutional, it is hard for any gun enthusiast to ignore Harf’s obvious mistake: while the terms “clip” and “magazine” are often used interchangeably by those who aren’t knowledgable about firearms, there is a huge difference — and there is no such thing as a “high magazine clip.”

Writing Explained wrote of the difference:

An ammunition clip is a device used to store individual rounds of ammunition together as a single unit that is then ready for insertion into the magazine of a gun.

A magazine is a device or chamber for holding a supply of cartridges to be fed automatically to breech of a gun. It is the area from where ammunition is pulled and put into the firing chamber.

Former U.S. Navy SEAL Brandon Webb, an author and another news contributor, has even cautioned against referring to magazines as clips.

“It’s common for people to get the two mixed up,” Webb said. “If you hear someone talking about clips… you know they don’t know the difference,” Webb told The Blaze.

Other dumb statements

But we shouldn’t be too hard on Harf; lawmakers calling for gun control measures often display their ignorance about the weapons they want to restrict. During an April 2, 2013, gun control forum, Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), was under the impression that magazines came pre-loaded, and once you shot the bullets, the magazines couldn’t be reloaded.

“If you ban them in the future, the number of these high-capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available,” she said.

The following year, California Democratic State Sen. Kevin de Leon, another anti-gun lawmaker, appeared to confuse clips, magazines, calibers, and bullets altogether.

“This is a ghost gun,” de Leon began, displaying an unloaded rifle. “This right here has the ability with a .30-caliber clip to disperse with 30 bullets within half a second. Thirty magazine clip in half a second.”

At a time when gun control is such a hot topic, it would be wise of liberals like Harf to get their facts straight. But considering Democrats’ histories of being less than experts on firearms, we aren’t holding our breath.