Zumbo: Gun rag writer trashes "Assault Weapons"

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emails sent to all of his sponsors

If you are receiving this email, it is because Jim Zumbo has just cost you my business. I will no long endorse, buy, use, or recommend your products. If Jim Zumbo is fired, reprimanded, and a public apology is given by him, I will consider frequenting your products again...until then...no way.

His stance on calling Americans terrorists for owning military pattern rifles and using them in the field is outrageous. He is the worst kind of enemy...one who shrouds himself as "one of us" then cuts us behind our back. He tramples on our 2nd amendment rights and on what this country was founded on.

By the way, I don't think Zumbo "needs" to hunt coyotes and I will work to see that banned.

If you'd like a reference to his ridiculous remarks

http://outdoorlife.blogs.com/zumbo/2007/02/assault_rifles_.html

The user comments (over 1400 of them) give a good impression of what shooters think of him. Here's another thread at a gun board.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?p=3124022&posted=1#post3124022
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Sent to:

[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

He is also one of the columnists for Shooting Illustrated. I intend to rip his column out of the magazine each month and mail it back to the NRA with an explanation why.
 
i sent an email to remington about this.

i told them zumbo's blog caused me to question his intelligence because assault rifles are not generally available to the general public, but his high powered sniper rifle is.

i also told them his comments are making me rethink purchasing any remington products, and they need to look at getting a new spokesman.

tommy millner responded with "consider it done".

i think mr. zumbo is in some trouble.
 
This bears repeating:

Incendiary, vitriolic comments don't do any good. They don't change anyone's mind and are more likely to make the anti-gun or undecided reader think "What a nut!".
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Keep your notes to the point and polite. Be angry without being rude.

pax
 
>>You will note that similar comments have been made by Tom Greshem on his radio show.<<

With all due respect . . . not in my lifetime!

What I have said is that I don't have a lot of interest, not knowledge, of military arms. I do own three AR-15s and love 'em. I have never said that anyone (not legally prohibited from owning it) should not have one, shoot one, hunt with one, or just enjoy looking at it.

So, please, I'd ask you not to something as potentially damaging to me as this untrue statement.

Thanks.
 
well besides sending this to the outdoor channel management...

You guys need to have a look at Jim Zumbo's blog he really put his foot in his mouth and PO's off a heap of people not real smart. http://outdoorlife.blogs.com/zumbo/2007/02/assault_rifles_.html
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I posted this there as well...
Zumbo:
Your story has to be one the most ill-thought out, ignorant, un-researched pieces of leftest bull I have read since the "Brady Act" was portrayed as the savior of all gun violence!

Please... "assault guns" (leftest anti gun nomenclature not mine) N hunting have gone hand N hand since the Revolutionary war, since way before the first 30-40 Craig was modified for hunting. How about the many 03's have you seen modified and used to take game over the years? The AK and AR's are just the modern brethren of the weapons of past wars.

So you have no use for a semi-auto, an AK or AR style riffle to hunt with, say that instead of the anti gun fuel you dumped in the laps of the gun control groups.
I Hope you can live with the fact you have just aided and abided the very criminals that want your hunting guns as well as every thing else out there that goes bang when you pull a trigger. I bet Jeff Cooper is turning over in his grave right now, so how about next time think about what you say before putting it in print, it's called proof reading.
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The comments are rolling in so fast I expect the server to be overwhelmed before long:uhoh:
 
Wow, I've never read anything like it. Both Zumbo's blog and the instant avanlanche of replies. Has Zumbo responded or is he still buried underneath it all? I suspected his sort of elitism but to actually read it was a real awakening!
 
Everyone should add the NRA to their email list...he is a "back page" columnist in their magazine Shooting Illustrated (and that IS a gun rag...not just an outdoor or hunting magazine)

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From: XXXX
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 12:30 PM
Subject: Jim Zumbo is a disgrace to the 2nd Amendment

I intend to cancel my subscription to Shooting Illustrated unless you fire Jim Zumbo as a columnist. He wrote a blog entry calling Americans "terrorists" for owning military pattern rifles and using them in the field. He is the worst kind of enemy to the 2A...one who shrouds himself as "one of us" then cuts us behind our back. He tramples on our 2nd Amendment rights and on what this country was founded on.

By the way, I don't think Zumbo "needs" to hunt coyotes and I will work to see that banned.

If you'd like a reference to his ridiculous remarks

http://outdoorlife.blogs.com/zumbo/2007/02/assault_rifles_.html

The user comments (over 1400 of them) give a good impression of what shooters think of him. Here's another thread at a gun board.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?p=3124045&posted=1#post3124045 If Jim Zumbo is fired, reprimanded, and a public apology is given by him, I will consider keeping my subscription...until then...no way.

Kris Rich
Endowment Life Member
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I've just had a joy of a time watching the deluge of replies to his blog. By my estimation it appears to be picking up almost 200 replies per hour.:evil:



Career terminated.
 
It really wasn't very nice of me but my comments on the blog were:

Gee, Jim Z

I really hope you have enough saved for retirement. That is likely your last article you will ever write. Every one of your sponsors has a minimum of 1000 emails in their inbox saying they will never buy another product from them until you are fired.

Oh, and those free "writers only" hunting trips that you get to try new product? Gone. Test guns and gun gear? Gone.

I'm sure the VPC is looking for writers of made-up facts and inflammatory, emotion-based arguements for their press releases though. Check out www.monster.com
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FYI, Jim knows nothing about this controversy. He has been on a hunt, and gets home in about an hour. I don't know when he wrote that piece, but he has not been on the internet for several days. I just talked with his wife a few minutes ago.

Jim **might** be joining me on the radio show, live, in a couple of hours. I wouldn't blame him if he decided to not do that, since he needs to get up to speed on this.

Jim is a long-time friend. He has always said he is not a gun guy, but a hunter. He knows hunting, but not guns or the gun rights issues or sensitivities.
 
Jim is a long-time friend. He has always said he is not a gun guy, but a hunter. He knows hunting, but not guns or the gun rights issues or sensitivities.
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No disrespect to you, Tom, but if that's true, then Jim needs to keep his mouth shut on those issues
 
Looks like Remington is trying to get some distance between Jim and themselves.

ALL - Jim Zumbo in NO WAY speaks for Remington! His opinions are his own. We at Remington take our 2nd Ammendment Rights extremely seriously and ourselves market and manufacturer a AR based 308 rifle. Remington Arms supports the lawful use of all firearms by thier owners in whatever legal manner they choice. We are Remington feel that it is the diversity of our tastes and uses of fireaems that should also be the binding element that assists us all in defending the rights granted to us by our fore fathers.

Posted by: Michael Haugen | February 18, 2007 at 01:37 PM
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They will weather the storm, I don't think I can say the same for Jim Zumbo.

bob
 
Guntalk,

Please get him [Jim Z] educated quickly, even though he may not agree, he should try to understand why so many are upset.
 
Tom ~

Ought to be an interesting show, if he is willing to risk it.

He has always said he is not a gun guy, but a hunter. He knows hunting, but not guns or the gun rights issues or sensitivities.
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From where I'm sitting, it looks as if he found out where the bear trap was by stepping in it.

pax
 
Jim is a long-time friend. He has always said he is not a gun guy, but a hunter. He knows hunting, but not guns or the gun rights issues or sensitivities.
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Hrmmm, it seems to me that any attempt to divorce hunting-with-firearms from anti-rights/gun control issues in this century is just willful self-deception.

Ironically Jim obviously felt qualified enough to state his view and opinion on an extremely public forum and now, whether he likes it or not, he has put himself smack in the thick of the bill of rights issues. I don't know Jim and he may be a perfectly decent guy, but he will no longer have the luxury of being able to pretend that gun-rights and hunting (with firearms) have no connections.
 
Around here, a lot of people hunt with ARs and similarly styled rifles. Apart from online acquaintances, I don't personally know anyone with a Perazzi in the safe, but I know dozens who have multiple ARs.

Should we outlaw Perazzis in the field just because I don't personally know anyone who uses one?

(Edited to add: man, that blog is really getting slammed. I accidentally closed the window, and when I went to re-open it, it took three tries and loaded ve-e-e-errrry slowly.)

pax
 
I think you are right. Jim will get a sudden education in this area. I have been involved in a couple of big fights about gun rights, with Jim standing shoulder-to-shoulder with me on them. However, there's no doubt he stepped in it on this one.

One other thing I have sure learned the hard way is to not assume that the way something is published is always the way it is written. I've sure had that one happen to me.
 
It looks like a case of an "elite" who is feeling the scorn of the common man.

I would feel sorry for him but you know his comments will be used against us, too damn bad, nobody is winning in this whole ordeal.
 
One other thing I have sure learned the hard way is to not assume that the way something is published is always the way it is written.
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I can see a quote being misstated...the whole article being rewritten to completely change the tone and meaning? That's harder to swallow.

The man is finished in my view. If he isn't, then the market will take care of his supporters.
 
NOTE: I include myself in the following criticism

I wish we could get as much immediate activist reaction for actual anti-gun legislation!

This one gent's blog is getting hundreds of slams per hour, I wonder how many hits our elected reps get when actual damaging legislation comes onto the radar?

I did add my own small comment to Zumbo's page, just to be counted. But it did make me realize that I've been too lax in the past about calling my elected reps. I now have my reps programmed into my cellphone, and, starting a couple weeks ago, have made several short, polite calls against potential TX legislation.

Piling onto Zumbo is well-and-fine, but doesn't accomplish much if he don't spend another, what, 4 minutes next week firing off a quick (polite) email or cellphone call to our elected reps.

-MV
 
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