During Monday’s airing of ABC’s The View, host Joy Behar suggested a “20 year-old white guy” buying 50 rounds of ammunition “should be reported.”
SkyNews.com.au noted Behar and the other hosts were discussing the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump, which had occurred two days prior, and Behar said, “According to a CNN report, a senior law enforcement official said that [the would-be assassin] bought 50 rounds of ammunition from a local gun store hours before the rally.”
Behar then looked up at her fellow hosts and said, “Shouldn’t that have been reported? Somebody buys 50, a 20-year-old white guy, I mean we’ve seen that many times now. Young white men with guns and nobody reported that he bought 50 rounds of ammunition.”
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Behar may not realize that 9mm ammunition is sold in 50 boxes, as is .45 ammo, .380 ammo, .38 Special ammo, .40 S&W ammo, .357 Magnum ammo, and so on. Therefore, to report someone for buying “50 rounds of ammunition” would mean reporting them for buying one box of ammo.
Now, rifle ammo is available in numerous per-box sizes, the smallest average being 20 rounds per box. Even this means the 50 round threshold would be hit by purchasing 2.5 boxes, which is not enough ammo even fill two standard sized 30-round magazines at the range.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio, a member of Gun Owners of America, and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and has a Ph.D. in Military History. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.