Narrator: The AR-15 used in Newtown could have been rendered a bit less deadly if it had not been outfitted with high-capacity magazines that hold dozens of bullets each. But shortly before the massacre, a bill that would have banned them was defeated with help from the NSSF.
David: Your organization lobbied against the proposed restrictions in Connecticut on high-capacity magazines.
Lawrence: As we did in other states as well, yes.
David: Adam Lanza used high-capacity magazines in the commission of his crime.
Lawrence: That were lawfully purchased and legal to purchase at the time by his mother, and still today, legal to possess in Connecticut and other states.
David: You don't feel any responsibility for those devices being in the consumer market?
Lawrence: They're standard issue for modern sporting rifles. And we saw a magazine capacity restriction in place for ten years in the United States and it did nothing to reduce crime.