"the govt knows that I own a pistol and the make and model"
No you don't. Don't you remember that you decided you didn't want it anymore and sold it in the newspaper to some guy you don't recall what he looked like, what he drove etc etc. -gggg-
I have owned dozens of firearms and most of them I got rid of until I found the ones I liked best, to keep forever until they pry them from my cold dead fingers. The ones I didn't want anymore, I sold to whoever responded to my ad in the paper though most were friends or family. If the government thought I still owned everything I ever registered, they would be calling me to fight Iraq. -g- I am no assault rifle freak but I have owned dozens upon dozens of pistols. I used to only bow hunt but when I got to where I never had enough time to practice anymore, I switch to handgun hunting. Same tactics and closeness of shots but easier to make a clean shot without as much practice required.
I hunt with the ones that I bought fully registered and collected some others from private people with no paperwork. For defense though, it is always something with no paperwork and something cheap I wouldn't mind throwing away if I had to use it.
Now days, a legal shooter gets in more trouble than the criminal that was trying to take him out. It is much easier to defend yourself, leave the scene and dump the evidence. Sad but true in the way today's society. Criminals have more rights than victims.
FWIW - I agree the NRA goes too far. You don't need a bazooka or assault rifle to hunt deer. I used to be a member but got sick and tired or the "I need a grenade launcher to enjoy the outdoors" and all the ads for Military gear and those loud four runners and 3 wheelers that ruin things when I go out to the woods for some peace and quite. I understand that if they give an inch, the anti gunners will take a mile but it just seemed the NRA was geared towards the type of people I can't stand that ruin it for "real outdoorsman".
When I go to the woods for a hunt, I want challenge. It is bad enough I can reach out and rip the head off a deer with a rifle, but from the way I have seen hunters getting lately, they want to drive right up to it, have the deer jump in the back of a truck or quadrunner, blow itself up and then have it butchered neatly in grocery store wrapping paper. I don't know how many times I was stalking a deer and within 30 yards only to have it ruined by some A$$hole in a 4 wheel drive or ATV driving up to it because he saw it with Binoculars and felt he could chase it down going 45 MPH on his gas powered noise machine. I have also seen enough dead does and read about the people shooting their buddies or strangers by accident because they shot the first shadow they saw or noise they heard. I can count the mosquitoes on the deer I shoot before I pull the trigger and everyone is supposed to make sure it has the required number of points and length on the rack before they shoot yet you know these idiots don't. I call myself an anti hunting hunter. I think it has morphed into some testosterone thing where they no longer want the sport or the meat but just want to make sure they can say they got something.
When I was stationed in Maine, I heard all kinds of stories about how challenging Moose hunts were, or how fierce a bear hunt was. What Crap! Moose are about hte dumbest animals on the face of the earth. Even a Blind Quadraplegic could fill a tag. I have had mooose walk out in front of me while bird hunting to see what the noise of the gun was. Bear are shot while eating over a barrel of bait or chased by dogs and treed and they don't run and aren't as smart as a raccoon so the hunt is quick and results certain. Moose and bear hunts are slaughters.
Sorry, I guess I am showing my age but I recall when a good time on a lake was a silent day out with a canoe or kayak with no sounds but birds and frogs or a few eagles and hawks. Now it seems like if you aren't wearing earplugs, you might go deaf from the 1000 horsepower rednecks screaming around plowing everything up in their 400 cu inch racing engines. Same for fishing. What happened to 2-6 lb test line and a huge fish you spent half an hour pulling in for fear of breaking the line? Now they use damn near deep sea fishing gear, pheremones, scent spray, fish finders and junk to where they may as well just snag them or net them and hook them up to gas powered winches and haul them in. I see the shows on TV and the rod tips barely even bend and despite the guy reeling in as fast as he can, I never see a line break.
The sport and outdoors has been removed from the sport and outdoors. Now it seems like an excuse to get drunk and if you don't come home with something, it is a sign of loss of masculinity or something. I would rather go out, enjoy the peace and quiet, the sport, the mind game and come back empty than feel like I went to drive up window and came home.
Sorry for the rant but I got on a roll.
Point originally was, criminals will always get guns, it isn't the legal guy they need to worry about. I also don't think anyone needs an assault rifle, machine gun etc. There should be a military branch of makers for a controlled military dispersment of firearms and the rest of us should be limited to pistols that are hunting rounds or plinking rounds with full long barrels. 9 mm is useless round, get rid of it except for the military that want s a light easy to use round for wounding and small shooters now that we are politically correct. Keep 22 longs, 357s, 44 mags etc. for teh rest of us. On rifles, there isn't any reason to vary from 22Magnums for ranching use on Prairy dogs etc, 30.06 for deer and maybe a coyote gun like a 243 or 223. Shotguns, who cares. If it isn't sawed off, it is legal. -g- Best home defense weapon out there anyway. A burgler heres a 12 gauge pump being racked knows the shooter doesn't have to know what he/she is doing, it is going to hurt and the aim won't have to be perfect for it to be a mistake to go any further.
Good Luck,
Lee |
