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It has to do with technology, and primarily that surrounding repeat shots. Much of modern day hunting capacity/firearm restrictions (blackpowder, plugs in shotguns limiting capacity, etc) comes from so-called Company Hunters in the Depression era. These were men that were paid to go out to duck ponds, woods, etc, and procure large amounts of game for meat processors. They would use high-capacity firearms for the job and were known to clear out entire areas of all wildlife. This is obviously a bad thing, so the various entities that governed hunting at the time responded with restrictions as to capacity.
Nowadays, capacity restrictions are still seen as an excellent way of limiting the number of game animals taken in any given season. Buck fever hits and your first shot misses, you then have a significant reload time before a follow-up can be taken, and the animal is long gone by then. You leave the field grumpy, but more cursing your bad aim than a govt that does not allow higher tech weapons.
It's all polotics.
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