Thanks Beagle8U. That is an interesting premise. Perhaps I’m not quite up to speed, but it would seem to me that the time to go postal, would be when you observe someone breaking the law. Setting up artificial limits seems overly zealous. A hunter could easily have the gun loaded to the max, and never go over the three shot limit. Is the state of the opinion that people can’t count to three, or won’t count to three?
What if three hunters are shooting in a group. If each shoots three times, that’s nine shots, larger groups even more...
Either you trust people or you don’t. If you don’t, you take their guns. If you can’t trust a guy on the three shot rule, how can you trust him with a weapon in the first place?
You must think back to the days of market hunting, punt guns holding several pounds of shot, shotguns larger than 10 ga, and the practice of taking several shotguns with 5-6 rounds loaded, for each hunter in a party, to understand what their thinking was.
It was quite a break in tradition to go to the current 3 shot rule, and plugging the gun to limit it was a way to remind everyone...IMHO.