Another Ostensible Hero…
Posted by TFG on August 31st, 2007
…shows his ass.
Says ‘civilians’ should be limited to five-round capacity guns. As an NRA board member, he has to go into damage control mode, and says he meant that just for hunters. Maybe so - Texas has a five-round mag-capacity limit on game-hunting centerfire weapons in the field. He’s old, maybe he got confused. I get confused, too. That might not even be the law any more, it’s been so long since I went hunting.
The problem is he said it to the gel-head pencil-necks at Texas Monthly. The problem is the attitude towards ‘civilians’ by cops and other LEOs. It’s universal. And it doesn’t help.
Via Kevin Baker…
September 2nd, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Y’know, it’s odd, I really don’t have a problem with Missouri’s limit of 10 rounds in the magazine (for detachable magazines, I think built-in-magazines with more than that, like in an old Winchester 1873, are fine) for hunting deer, but I still think the 3-shot limit for all kinds of shotgun hunting is a little silly-surely this guy was thinking of hunting and not talking about magazine bans. I’m glad that the gunny-folk, however, are paying attention, as we need to, given the ramifications of what happens when, say, things like the 1994 “assault weapons ban” become law.
Sorry, that was incoherent in extremis, but yeah, some “sporting” restrictions on capacity for hunting I guess don’t bother me, and I don’t see a constitutional crisis, but when The Man wants to limit the capacity of weapons I may have to use to shoot The Man if he dons his Jackboots to engage in some Jackbooted Thuggery, I smell a rat, maybe.
The R Man
September 3rd, 2007 at 5:53 am
Even if that was the case, what would be the difference between what this guy said and what Jim Zumbo was getting at? Granted, Joaquin Jackson didn’t go off calling them “terrorist magazines” — but no matter the situation, I think that whenever the word “ban” gets trotted out in relation to boomsticks or related parts (whether it be magazines or full-auto sears), it can never be anything but bad.
September 3rd, 2007 at 9:07 am
Well, I tend to give him the benefit of the doubt on banning stuff, just because of the context of the discussion. One problem is that it will get twisted around by those with less than kind attitudes towards RKBA. However, I agree 100% that a gunner shouldn’t ever be talking ‘ban.’
What galls me the most is the ‘civilians’ attitude. Too many of these guys get to thinking they’re better than us ‘civilians’ because of their job. It’s tiresome to me, and sets up an unnecessary adversarial relationship.
September 3rd, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Yep, gun-folk certainly need to watch what they say these days with regard to “controlling” anything, lest the legis-critters take the words and run with ‘em.
The R Man
September 5th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Hell, I wouldn’t tell the Texas Monthly what time of day it is. They would misquote me whatever I said.