14-Round Clip for Desert Eagle

[Ouchgeddon]

Last night on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a detetctive said that a 14-round clip for a Desert Eagle was illegal in New York. You have to make do with a normal 8-round clip. Having a 14-round Eagle would be like walking around with an assault weapon.

Anyone know the reason and history for the round limit, whether it applies elsewhere and why the Eagle is so dem powerful!

 

[Mr Spice]

Well, it does not apply here at least. In Sweden walking around with that gun would be illegal in itself, no matter how large you clip was. IMHO that is far better.

 

[Ren]

I agree with Mr Spice, a gun is a gun. Nuff said.

 

[ainwood]

Limitations are put on the size of the magazine in a (futile) attempt to limit the potential for a murder spree.

Because we all know that gunning down 8 people is not nearly as bad as gunning down 14.

 

[BlueMonday]

And a Desert Eagle isn't just one of the most powerful handguns out there; it is the most powerful handgun you can buy. It is the only sidearm that uses .50 caliber ammunition which is more powerful even than .44 magnum. They make a second desert eagle designed for 357, but even 357 ammuntion is far more powerfull than common police or military issue ammo (namely .45, .40 USP, 10mm, 9mm).

I'm always amused when I watch a movie and they have a guy firing a Desert Eagle and he barely flinches using it. The first time you fire a DE your arm is going to be pointing straight up in the air and you're going to say, "holy s***!" And even after you get used to the recoil your going to be traveling at least a foot every time you pull the trigger. Make no mistake about it, Desert Eagle is amazingly powerful.

 

[Austin IronFist]

With that recoil, the DE doesn't sound very practical...............

 

[Lt.Col. Kilgore]

For the .50 caliber Desert Eagle its 7 in the clip and 1 in the barrel. By the way, here in Florida its unlawful to have any more than ten rounds in a firearm at any given time.

 

[BlueMonday]

Originally posted by Austin IronFist
With that recoil, the DE doesn't sound very practical...............

Well, in all fairness, a handgun isn't meant to be a precision weapon. Even the most accurate of sidearms is only accurate out to about 50-60 meters. After that, the low speed of the bullet forces it to stray a good distance. As a short range desperation weapon, the Desert Eagle is one of the best; one round will put almost anyone down. The .50 caliber round is actually powerfull enough to pierce most types of body armor. That's part of why the Isrealis designed the Desert Eagle. They wanted something that could quickly take out the enemy and do it damn fast at that. Not like NATO which wanted to kill someone in a less gruesome manner than pumping a shell half an inch across into another person.

But for my money, I'd pass up a DE. A good, solid 9mm pistol would be my preference any day. Easier to handle, easier to find, and much cheaper.

 

[Reichsmarshal]

The USP and the Socom are said to be some of the best handguns.

 

[animepornstar]

great. it will be much easier to shoot down the polar bears we have here with 14-round clips.

 

[Ouchgeddon]

Due to the fragile human physiology, I'd prefer to carry a weaker but faster and more accurate sidearm. After all, all it takes is one bullet...Not that I can hit anything. Or that guns are legal here, they aren't. Or that I can't kill with my bare hands. I can. Especially if Concrete Floor does not count as a weapon.

 

[mer500]

not true, because I have a beretta 9 mm. 15 rnds, glock 21, 13 rnds. and it is legal to carry in Florida.

For the .50 caliber Desert Eagle its 7 in the clip and 1 in the barrel. By the way, here in Florida its unlawful to have any more than ten rounds in a firearm at any given time.

 

[IglooDame]

not true, because I have a beretta 9 mm. 15 rnds, glock 21, 13 rnds. and it is legal to carry in Florida.

Jeez, you might as well have necro'ed an 8-yr-old thread to correct him on using the term 'clip' instead of 'magazine'.


And by the way, welcome to CFC!

 

[Formaldehyde]

I know Florida used to restrict the magazine size. I guess they must have changed the law in the past few years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_(by_state)

 

[Bugfatty300]

the dezert eagle is has like so much pwr. maybe +15 damage or something

my dad has 10 of them in 50 caliber and a he has a 20-rd banana clip for each even though banana clips are ilegal. i know their ilegal caus i watch a lot of law and order and remember the laws and stuff

it will literaly blow off peoples arms and stuff. i know caus i saw my dad shoot someone with it

but i prefer my dad's mp5 because the dezert eagle will knock you on your azz to when you shoot it. so much pwr

 

[JohnRM]

Last night on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a detetctive said that a 14-round clip for a Desert Eagle was illegal in New York. You have to make do with a normal 8-round clip. Having a 14-round Eagle would be like walking around with an assault weapon.

Anyone know the reason and history for the round limit, whether it applies elsewhere and why the Eagle is so dem powerful!

The Desert Eagle is a horrible weapon. I could more easily and proficiently kill people with my .45 than you could with that pistol. It is incredibly heavy and has too much kick to be effective in combat. Even with a compensator, I hear that it is dreadfully inaccurate at higher rates of fire. You'd be much better off with a S&W 500, or better yet, just an XD-45, which has a capacity of 13+1, but even there you have a problem with accuracy, because of the weight of the ammo.

 

[IglooDame]

The Desert Eagle is a horrible weapon. I could more easily and proficiently kill people with my .45 than you could with that pistol. It is incredibly heavy and has too much kick to be effective in combat. Even with a compensator, I hear that it is dreadfully inaccurate at higher rates of fire. You'd be much better off with a S&W 500, or better yet, just an XD-45, which has a capacity of 13+1, but even there you have a problem with accuracy, because of the weight of the ammo.

I was fine until you got to that last part about weight of the ammo affecting accuracy. I've never seen that complaint before about doublestack semiautomatic pistols before, and in my own shooting experience I've not had any problem with it - if anything the greater weight helps take the sharpness out of the recoil.

 

[mrt144]

Yeah, i'm never heard about ammo weight especially an additional 6 rounds causing heightened inaccuracy.

 

[Bugfatty300]

45 ACP is a big heavy bullet and so when you have 14 of them concentrated in your fist then I can imagine it would be quite a heft. A bigger heft than fourteen 9mm Lugers.

And for me personally the heavier a handgun is the harder it is to steady it and pathetic grouping is usually the result.

I'm pretty sure that is what John was talking about.

 

[IglooDame]

Empty 1911 (w/empty mag): 1105g

Empty Para-Ordnance P14-45 (w/empty mag): 1134g

1 round of .45ACP 230gr RN ammunition: 21.5g


Fully loaded 7+1 1911: 1277g

Fully loaded 14+1 P14-45 1911: 1435g

Difference: 158g, or 12.3% of the original pistol's weight