1) It's not about HR1022... Altho it is NOW going to get a lot of publicity... Not because of Zumbo. Because of us.
Otherwise it likely would have died a natural death... McCarthy's recognized as a nutcase about gun control, but flogging her dead husband who got shot by someone who had time to reload gets her elected on Lawn Guyland. Every year she throws something out there, and it mostly gets ignored. Maybe not this time. Congratulations. You're helping her publicity. Feel good?
2) It -is- about what will happen in about a year and a half. For the less intelligent among you, it's a thing called "elections." Say it real slow if you need to. Because you're gonna hear a LOT about it.
Now...
THINK. Don't just react. THINK.
How can WE use this?
Other than by getting all majorly peeved, and going after ONE guy. Who likely has been pretty much at the bottom of the cesspool, regarding how he feels. You know what? I believe him. Because I _know_ guys like him. A lot of you guys probably know folks like him too. Right? They whip out the deer rifle or the duck gun, more as a ritual than anything else I guess... But that's okay. However, they are also members of our overall American culture - which means that they've been taught a LOT by television. Which means that when they see something that _looks like_ a machinegun, they assume that it is illegal. That isn't their fault. They are IGNORANT, because they have not been educated. You cannot blame a person for ignorance. You _can_ blame a person for ignoring education.
Now we can either WELCOME them, and EDUCATE them, or we can tell 'em all to go piss up a rope.
Oh yeah - that may feel like you're doing something... What it is DOING is further widening the schisms that exist in our sport. Our culture. Our way of life.
It is throwing something away.
Why? Because a lot of the EBR guys don't dig deer hunting. And a lot of the EBR guys don't dig duck hunting. Whoopee... So we can all just bloody well hang separately.
Or we can use this, and forgive. And unite. Or forever fragment.
There are a LOT of people who want us to fragment. Some of them are "members" of this forum. And they're laughing at us. THINK, people.
Oh, and I'll repeat this...
"Other than by getting all majorly peeved, and going after ONE guy."
If you guys put anywhere NEAR the energy that you've put into trashing this ONE guy into a coordinated campaign to keep anti-gun legislation from being introduced, we'd be set for the next 10 years.