For what it's worth, I lived upstate and the handgun ban did not seem to dampen enthusiasm for hunting or recreation shooting. I knew a gang who frequently went skeet shooting, and the farmers around me got so many deer tags that they would give them away to people who trusted and let them hunt on their land.
So I don't buy into this id…
For what it's worth, I lived upstate and the handgun ban did not seem to dampen enthusiasm for hunting or recreation shooting. I knew a gang who frequently went skeet shooting, and the farmers around me got so many deer tags that they would give them away to people who trusted and let them hunt on their land.
So I don't buy into this idea that reasonable gun laws are going to be an anchor around the neck of responsible gun hobbyists. It was easy enough to shoot clay pigeons and deer if that was your jam. But it was harder to shoot people.
Modern "gun hobbyists" do stuff like 3-gun competitions where they swap from pistol to shotgun to assault rifle in the same match. They'll say that ditching high-capacity semi-auto is going to kill their little "hobby." Because we really needed to invent a "sport" like 3-gun. Wanna talk about "grooming"? There are parents teaching kids as old as 8 to do 3-gun matches in TrumpLand. The hobbies have changed over the years, especially in Trumpy states.
A former navy seal taught me to skeet shoot, I went to a high school with a rifle team, and have gone target shooting at gun range (well over a decade ago). I never saw myself getting real into it, but I see the appeal.
The change in gun culture is just unthinkable to me. I don't understand it at all. I wouldn't let an eight year old play with a BB gun.
For what it's worth, I lived upstate and the handgun ban did not seem to dampen enthusiasm for hunting or recreation shooting. I knew a gang who frequently went skeet shooting, and the farmers around me got so many deer tags that they would give them away to people who trusted and let them hunt on their land.
So I don't buy into this idea that reasonable gun laws are going to be an anchor around the neck of responsible gun hobbyists. It was easy enough to shoot clay pigeons and deer if that was your jam. But it was harder to shoot people.
Modern "gun hobbyists" do stuff like 3-gun competitions where they swap from pistol to shotgun to assault rifle in the same match. They'll say that ditching high-capacity semi-auto is going to kill their little "hobby." Because we really needed to invent a "sport" like 3-gun. Wanna talk about "grooming"? There are parents teaching kids as old as 8 to do 3-gun matches in TrumpLand. The hobbies have changed over the years, especially in Trumpy states.
A former navy seal taught me to skeet shoot, I went to a high school with a rifle team, and have gone target shooting at gun range (well over a decade ago). I never saw myself getting real into it, but I see the appeal.
The change in gun culture is just unthinkable to me. I don't understand it at all. I wouldn't let an eight year old play with a BB gun.