Posted on 06/03/2007 1:07:14 PM PDT by RKV
LAST February, Jim Zumbo, a burly, 66-year-old outdoors writer, got a phone call at his home near Cody, Wyo., from the rock star — and outspoken Second Amendment champion — Ted Nugent. “You messed up, man,” Mr. Zumbo says Mr. Nugent told him. “Big time.”
Leland A. Nichols, left, an executive at Smith & Wesson in Springfield, Mass., and John Kapusta, an engineering manager, with an M&P 15 rifle. Such rifles have been crucial to the company’s turnaround plans.
Two days earlier, Mr. Zumbo, a leading hunting journalist, outraged Mr. Nugent and many other gun owners when he suggested in a blog post that increasingly popular semiautomatic guns known as “black rifles” be banned from hunting. Mr. Zumbo, stunned that hunters were using the rifles for sport, also suggested giving the guns, prized for their matte black metal finishes, molded plastic parts and combat-ready looks, a new name: “terrorist rifles.”
Gun enthusiasts’ backlash against Mr. Zumbo was swift. He parted company with his employer, Outdoor Life magazine. Mr. Zumbo says on his Web site that he was “terminated”; the magazine says that it and Mr. Zumbo agreed that he would resign.
But a week after hearing from Mr. Nugent, who has a devoted following among gun owners, Mr. Zumbo visited him in Waco, Tex., to make amends. For his part, Mr. Nugent was prepared to give Mr. Zumbo a lesson on the utility and ubiquity of black rifles.
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“It’s highly unlikely that any legislation to move an assault weapons ban is going to happen,” says Kristen Rand, legislative director at the Violence Policy Center, a gun-control lobbying group. “That’s the sad reality on the Hill right now.”
ONLY IF WE KEEP THE POLITICIANS FEET TO THE FIRE BOYS
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Nice quote from Ted Nugent also...
“Black rifles are cool. Case closed. The more the better.”
FYI and thanks to www.ArmsandtheLaw.com
Mr. Zumbo, chastened by the outcry that his black-rifle comments set off, says he hopes to resume writing about hunting and to revive his popular cable television show, which was put on hiatus when it lost sponsors after the blog post. He says his time at Mr. Nugent’s ranch reminded him that gun owners have to reject banning any firearm, lest it open the door to banning them all. He also says that, like it or not, black rifles are now mainstream.
“Having met the people who shoot these things, they were regular folks; they weren’t sinister people who were bent on causing harm, they weren’t hostile people,” he says. “They were interested in the guns because they were fun to shoot.”
I want to give Zumbo the benefit of the doubt on his rehabilitation, but the stuff he said was so hateful and ill informed I still have my doubts. Of course, the NYT thinks anyone who shoots any gun of any type is “sinister.”
How about "SWAT Team rifles"?
Yeah, all we have is the Slimes version... who knows what the rest of the story is?
The M16 made a certain amount of sense in a jungle war in which you saw the enemy from 50’ away. In wars in mountain and desert terrain, it is problematical, and that’s aside from the question of having exhaust gas blowing straight back into bolt carrier parts. People who collect guns should have one of them; for an only gun, I’d not consider it.
Twice the stopping power. One-fifth the price.
The Republicans in government aren't my friends. They are the least offensive vermin available. And the second amendment is the original "check and balance".
Whoa there pal, you're starting to sound like one of the founding fathers.
I just built a beauty of an AR, so count me in the EBR fan club. I started with a California off-list CMMG stripped lower, a Bushmaster lower parts kit and A2 stock and a modified grip to make it California legal.
I topped it off with a JP Enterprises JP-15 18” upper, Leupold 1 - 4 x 20mm scope and a JPoint red dot mounted at a 45° on the handguard.
It is a tack driver...and as evil looking as you could want. So thanks Zumbo.
I agree wholeheartedly.
The Republicans in government aren't my friends. They are the least offensive vermin available. And the second amendment is the original "check and balance".
I nominate this for post of the month.
A friend of mine has one of these because both the gun and the ammo are not expensive. I have shot it, cool for plinkin’, but I forgot the name of it.
“We were never claiming that every buyer of an assault weapon is a criminal or is a potential mass killer,” says Dennis Hennigan of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence in Washington.
But in 1994, Shmucky Chuck Schumer was: ““These killing machines are the weapon of choice of drug traffickers, violent youth gangs and the seriously deranged bent on revenge through mass murder.”
“Having met the people who shoot these things, they were regular folks; they weren’t sinister people who were bent on causing harm, they weren’t hostile people,” he says. “They were interested in the guns because they were fun to shoot.”
So he wrote his idiot article before researching the subject,Hum, typical journalist I see!
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