Posted on 08/04/2021 5:50:07 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
However, that division–false though it may be–often results in one group not caring about what happens to the other group. Please see the above for Ben Franklin’s thoughts on the matter … and here’s some background on why you should care a lot about the nomination of David Chipman for the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Yes, even if you only own a single-shot falling-block rifle and you only shoot it once a year.
Chipman, a longtime gun control lobbyist, has expressly stated his support for banning the most popular rifle in the U.S., owned by tens of millions of law-abiding Americans, the AR-15-style platform. He holds many other radical anti-Second Amendment positions, all of which would not only impact the civil rights of Americans but will also have very detrimental effects on hunting and wildlife conservation.
The nomination of Chipman will significantly harm wildlife conservation and management efforts across the country. Manufacturers pay a 10- to 11-percent tax on firearms and ammunition, which directly funds state wildlife and habitat conservation, law enforcement, hunter safety programs and other wildlife-related uses. This tax comes from all recreational firearm manufacturing, not just those firearms used for hunting.
SCI was among the 22 organizations that sent a June 11, 2021, letter to Senate Majority Leader Schumer and Republican Leader McConnell outlining strong opposition to Chipman. As the letter noted, in 2017 Chipman testified before the House Natural Resources Committee in opposition to HR 3668, the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act, a bill that received significant support from the hunting and conservation community. The SHARE Act expanded access and opportunities for hunting, fishing, and recreational shooting on federal lands, an issue of great importance to America’s sportsmen and women.
“Based on these positions,” the letter stated, “it is clear to us that the confirmation of David Chipman as ATF Director would result in significant and far-reaching negative impacts to hunters, anglers, recreational shooters, and, importantly, to wildlife and its habitat.”
As you can see, anti-gun attitudes almost always dovetail with anti-hunting sentiment. It’s very common for politicians who oppose gun ownership in America to assure hunters that they’re not coming for our bolt-action Remingtons…and as long as you add the word “today” to that sentence, it’s true. But rest assured, once they start banning they will not stop. We must all hang together lest we hang separately. Please call your senator today and ask them to oppose the Chipman nomination.
Good luck trying to get fudds in on the fight.
With all due respect. The 2nd amendment is not about hunting with firearms.
Everyone needs to oppose this guy. He is rabidly anti gun. He will disarm the population if he can. It is not about AR-15s or any particular gun. He wants them all gone.
I gave up membership in my local IWLA club after twenty years as they - IWLA national leadership - leaned ever more leftward in support of “green new deal” policies, polluted every article in their journal with tenets of the AGW faith, the last straw being their support of the EPA’s edict controlling “waterways” which would make filling wet spots in my farm pastures a criminal offense, them being “seasonal wetlands.”
I tried to like skeet shooting. I DID like shooting skeet, and trap, but the FUDD’s going on and on with labial diarrhea week after week opining how “NOBODY needs a(n): AR15, high capacity magazine, bump stock, silencer, machine gun, or any scary looking firearm” and the worst of it was the praetorian attitude of “they’ll never take MY $25,000 Perazzi, my custom-made Beretta, my grandfather’s collectible whatever” and this conversation came up, literally, EVERY week.
As a Family Practice doctor with a good background in psychiatry, I saw this for what it is: defensive posturing, the overt fear of a group of guys heading towards low-T aging puffing themselves up in their self-importance, their delusions of grandeur “I’m a pillar of the community, THEY will never take MY guns,” and worse, the insidious posturing of the villain in a 1940’s movie in a lifeboat survival film who is surreptitiously throwing people overboard during the dead of night.
They know, they’ve read, yes, THEIR guns WILL come under government scrutiny, control, enforced storage at gun clubs where, eventually, they WILL be confiscated by government force.
The majority of them will simply change hobbies, go back to golfing, or whatever hobby affords them the ability to display conspicuous consumption, flashing their bling in front of friends and impressionable youth, until some crusading leftist comes for THAT hobby based upon some “greater good” fallacious argument.
Well, until the pointy sticks are taken away by the nanny state, there’s still knitting.
***It’s very common for politicians who oppose gun ownership in America to assure hunters that they’re not coming for our bolt-action Remingtons***
Absolutely correct. I’ve lived long enough to remember the past. Here is my listing of the lies we have been told.
1962 We ONLY want to register handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
1964, We ONLY want to register ALL firearms, not ban them.
1968 We ONLY want to register all guns, and ban the import of foreign Saturday Night Specials, and 5-shot bolt action army surplus rifles! (they got the ban).
1970, We ONLY want to ban “Saturday Night Specials!” (small American handguns). Rifles will not be affected!
1976 We ONLY want to ban ALL handguns! Rifles will not be affected!
1981, Actress Lee Grant on Good Morning America screams...”THE NRA IS A RIFLE ORGANIZATION! THEY SHOULD GIVE UP THEIR HANDGUNS AND THEY CAN KEEP THEIR RIFLES!”
1986, They came for the rifles.
2000, they began to demonize the .50 cal single shot rifles (including muzzle loaders).
All you have to do is bring up the name of Charles Whitman who used a bolt action Remington rifle to murder people from the Texas Tower in 1966.
OR...James Earl Ray who used a Remington Model 760 Gamemaster .30-06-caliber rifle to kill Martin Luther King.
I remember advertisements in 1970 newspapers from anti-gun organizations.”WE DEMAND A BAN ON ALL FIREARM OWNERSHIP IN THE US! NOW!”
larrytown: “FUDD is a rather generic term that is easily misinterpreted and adds to already unhelpful internecine ridicule.”
normbal: “I tried to like skeet shooting. I DID like shooting skeet, and trap, but the FUDD’s going on and on with labial diarrhea week after week opining how “NOBODY needs a(n): AR15, high capacity magazine, bump stock, silencer, machine gun, or any scary looking firearm” and the worst of it was the praetorian attitude of “they’ll never take MY $25,000 Perazzi, my custom-made Beretta, my grandfather’s collectible whatever” and this conversation came up, literally, EVERY week.”
I disagree that the term is generic. normbal’e experience is a perfect demonstration of fudds in real life. These gun owners perfectly OK with restrictions on “scary” guns. They will not lift a finger to defend 2A rights until gun grabbers come after their hunting rifles and shotguns.
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