30 round clips were used at Columbine High School. When is this insanity going to end?

The articles below are from Forbes Magazine. The section of the magazine where these articles appear is called "SECURITY." I think they 'get it.' It is time the Congress does.

1/14/2013 @ 3:43PM

Five months ago, (click here) the group of homemade gun enthusiasts known as Defense Distributed set out to create a lethal firearm that could be downloaded and 3D-printed entirely from scratch, circumventing all gun control laws. But as new gun bills have been proposed in the wake of recent shootings, creating a bootleg weapon with digital pieces may soon be far easier: As simple as printing a spring-loaded plastic box.

Over the past weekend, Defense Distributed successfully 3D-printed and tested an ammunition magazine for an AR semi-automatic rifle, loading and firing 86 rounds from the 30-round clip....

The Downloads are going to happen anyway. National Security can easily be introduced into the priority to end the potential of dead police nationwide. We need our first arrest of criminals. I doubt any city in the country needs the drug cartels to have this capacity. The law needs to be passed now.

1/16/2013 @ 4:34PM

...To head off those proposed regulations, (click here) Defense Distributed began offering downloadable and printable blueprints for a 30-round magazine on its website, Defcad.org, over the weekend on its website. The group’s founder Cody Wilson told me earlier in the week that files for the three pieces of the group’s printable magazine have been downloaded from its website more than 2,200 times already.

Wilson says Congressman Israel’s call to ban the devices will only increase that steady flow of downloads. “I love it. It’s so reactionary,” he said when I reached him by phone. “I hope he gets tons of attention for this push, and that people download hundreds of thousands of magazines.”

The details of Israel’s suggested ban aren’t entirely clear. Plastic and polymer high-capacity magazines are already common, and aren’t currently covered by the current Undetectable Firearms law. So it would seem Israel would need to distinguish between those plastic magazines and 3D-printable ones, or ban possession of all non-metal high-capacity magazines outright....

These are trade articles. Not Mother Jones or Huffington Post. Trade articles.

Posted on March 19, 2013
by Harry W. Weber

Halliburton official destroyed notes of cement test related to Gulf Oil Spill (click here)

NEW ORLEANS — A former Halliburton lab manager testified Tuesday that a company official asked him not to record results of a cement stability test related to the well in the 2010 Gulf oil spill disaster.

Timothy Quirk said during a civil trial over the disaster in federal court in New Orleans that while the request was “a little unusual,” he complied.

The test was conducted shortly after the spill, using ingredients similar to those used to seal the undersea well that blew out. Quirk said he told the results to the company official that asked for the test, then he threw away his notes.

“He did not want them reported,” Quirk testified, referring to his former colleague. Quirk now works for Chevron, according to Halliburton.

The testimony comes a week after a Halliburton lawyer, Don Godwin, acknowledged that officials recently discovered cement samples possibly tied to the ill-fated drilling project that weren’t turned over to the Justice Department after the oil spill....

Imagine that. And why exactly isn't the CEO of Halliburton not up on charges of contempt at the very least. The products Halliburton use are SUBSTANDARD. They know it and they hide it.