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
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!".
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
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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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
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
No disrespect to you, Tom, but if that's true, then Jim needs to keep his mouth shut on those issuesJim 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.
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
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.
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.
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.