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http://www.huntingsense.com/the-jim-zumbo-controversy/ said:The Jim Zumbo Controversyby Mentioning gun control of any kind will no doubt spark a debate among sportsmen. And if you’re well enough known in the sporting world, it may even be the first nail in your professional coffin. Jim Zumbo, a hunter and outdoor writer for Outdoor Life magazine, found this out the hard way after making a blog post about the use of AK and AR weapons by hunters.
I liked the video but must add that the 2nd amendment isnt just about hunting. I think they tried to stay away from not "Sporting" uses in their video........ On what they did cover, they did well, and offer a good argument without getting into the "Non-sporting" debate.
Umm, whats an EBR? We should try to curb the Abbreviations and acronyms until the jist of the question or story is established. Just my opinion.
I think we should avoid using EBR (Evil Black Rifle) just as we avoid calling them Assault Weapons. They are neither, in most of our hands.
I thought it was Electronic bubbad Rifle.EBR (Evil Black Rifle)
TexasBill said:That's not just prior censorship, that's un-American.
Zumbo Sr. circa 1910 said:I must be living in a vacuum. The guides on our hunt tell me that the use of bolt action rifles have a rapidly growing following among hunters, especially prairie dog hunters. I had no clue. Only once in my life have I ever seen anyone using one of these firearms. I call them "battle" rifles, which may upset some people. Excuse me, maybe I'm a traditionalist, but I see no place for these weapons among our hunting fraternity. I'll go so far as to call them "terrorist" rifles. They tell me that some companies are producing battle rifles that are "tackdrivers." Sorry, folks, in my humble opinion, these things have no place in hunting. We don't need to be lumped into the group of people who terrorize the world with them, which is an obvious concern. I've always been comfortable with the statement that hunters don't use battle rifles. We've always been proud of our lever actions. This really has me concerned. As hunters, we don't need the image of walking around the woods carrying one of these weapons. To most of the public, an battle rifle is a terrifying thing. Let's divorce ourselves from them. I say game departments should ban them from the praries [sic] and woods.
That we don't take to kindly with being compared to terrorists maybe. Or maybe that we choose to have someone slightly more informed to listen to.TexasBill said:If we're so worried about one man's opinion about the suitability of a military-style rifle for hunting that we will cast him out for expressing it, what does that say about us?