Breaking Traditions Against Hunting and Firearms Ownership?

[RNB65]

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[The Wiry Irishman]

Who owns this board ?

Oleg Volk

Biography:
Naturalized US citizen, arrived in 1989 from St.Petersburg, Russia

 

[macFarlaine]

Thank you..

 

[doc2rn]

I grew up when if you didn't have a .22 by age 10 you where behind the curve. We all had them rifles and fishing poles. The barber and hardware stores all sold ammo. I remember $.50 box of shells then something happened and no-one sold ammo anymore by the time I was 13. I think something happened around the time Regan was shot.
Hunting saw it's big decline around the time Sears and then K-Mart stopped selling guns, now Walmarts. If there are not enough vendors and the markup is too high it becomes a rich persons sport.

 

[sm]

But how can we get more Americans who don't have hunting or guns in their family into hunting and guns.

1. Mentoring to others.

2. Mentoree's firing family that oppose responsible firearm ownership.

Been working since I was a pup born in the mid 50's.
Ditto for many I know of as well.

Word is the fella that sired me is gonna die. *shrug* I fired him too many years ago and he has been dead to me for long damn time anyway.

Tyranny will use damn near anything to impede, distract, or persuade.

 

[ReadyontheRight]

So many of the people who used to hunt (where I live) spend so much time trying to re-live their youth thru their children's sports, that they don't hunt or shoot.

I'm planning ot re-live the youth I wish I had by sending my son and daughters (with pink AR15s...or whatever they like) to Camp Perry on some youth teams.

Hunting and plinking are great family and friend activities, but competitive shooting is a great way to help attract new people to shooting.

Also - We need to fight to keep shooting ranges from the bulldozer as cities and suburbs grow.

 

[ReadyontheRight]

You don't often see immigrants getting into hunting or guns, nor do their American-born children.

The Hmong immigrants - many of whom came here in Minnesota - are very into hunting. Unfortunately, there have been a few well-publicized incidents, and sometimes the new guys take more than the bag limit, but I would rather have hunters moving into my country/town than antis.

Basically, I think the immigrants appreciate the freedoms we have much better than most of the natives.

 

[mp510]

You don't often see immigrants getting into hunting or guns, nor do their American-born children.

In my area, it's very opposite that. I live in an area with a very large Polish immigrant population. Many of the adults were farmers or ruralites in Poland, and their kids either ha some experience in the old country or were born here. They love outdoor sports, including hunting and fishing for the most part. They also enjoy growing some vegetables (they were used to growing stuff), raising small animals, etc...

 

[Crunker1337]

Wow, I'm so glad to hear that how it is in my area seems to be an isolated instance. Thanks for giving me the hope that the rest of the country isn't like how it is for me.

Out of the dozens of immigrant families I know, exactly one owns firearms (two shotties, I think, and they want to go hunting soon but are unsure of the legality) and one more wants to purchase a rifle someday.

There are few gun stores or ranges in my area, I checked the phone book and maybe ten entries have anything to do with shooting or guns or hunting. And this is in densely populated South Jersey, so few people have any exposure to safe firearms experiences, I think that that's the real killer.

I can't take anyone to a range as I own neither guns nor a car, so can anyone give me advice on how to at least be open to the idea of responsible gun ownership? Here, it seems like "Well, the police have them, so I don't need to." BTW, our police respond fairly quickly.

 

[.41Dave]

I know quite a few people in the 40+ age range who hunt regularly but not one of them has any kids with an interest in hunting.

Well, my 13 year old daughter has been begging me to take her deer hunting. Problem is, Texas is an expensive place to hunt if you don't own a big chunk of land. She already has her own rifle though, so as soon as I can manage to scrape the money together, we're gonna go.

 

[geekWithA.45]

{Whistle's and waves}

Hey, over here!

My family came over in the 1880's, making me like a 4 generation American.

There's no tradition of either hunting or gun ownership in my family. My dad's position on the matter was that it was every honest man's right to have a gun if he wanted, and he didn't want to.

He did support my shooting when I was young, however, especially after I brought home a chest full of shooting medals and several perfect targets from summer camp.

And nonetheless, here I am.