I think I want a crack as a Bradyite Blogger. Proof that guns are getting more dangerous is all around us.
They do not know a .22 can travel a mile.
That's what Mr. McDougal, our strangely speach-impeded shop teacher/firearms instructor, would say to my 1976 middle school rifle club, "the .22LR bullet can travel up to a mile". Mr. McDougal's pronouncements would always be followed by my friend Carl whispering the aside, "the Duck has spoken". Ah, good times.
But now, merely a day ago, what do I see on the side of a Winchester SuperX .22LR box? ".22LR is dangerous out to 1-1/2 miles". That's a 50% increase in thirty years! Grandpa's squirrel gun is now a spitfire.
Similarly, the .30-30 started out as a 19th century, smokeless-powder 200yd deer gun. Now, according to the Brady hysteria, it is an armored car stomping, cop-killing beast. They must know of Carlos Halfcock's hush-hush, 987mi, Saigon-to-Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh head-shot on Sep. 2, 1969, using a Winchester 1894 levergun.