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Not one who shoots “black”, the Fudd complaint is very similar to “mughoggers” 4X4 runners.

Back before any of the 4X4 idiots were running wild and tearing up every trail or backroad in the woods, most of us never had a problem hunting on anyone’s land. Then here come the “mentally children with 4X4 pickups” who had some need to prove how destructive they could be to both land and their machines, didn’t take long before no one wanted to allow anyone to hunt on their land.

Whether or not you shoot full auto or tear up the ranges or trash the places, you are now seen as part of the ones that do. Thank the idiots, not the old dudes.

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In my experience black rifle shooters are careful and courteous. I've been shooting for thirty years and only one time have I seen a private citizen show up with a machine gun, and he was darned careful with it.

I hate to disagree, but IMHO it is simply fear of the gun. The atmosphere is 180 degrees different if you pull a lever action out of the bag instead of a black gun. The tension just ebbs away and the RO goes back to talking fotball with his buddies.