I’m Chad D. Baus. The original article was posted here, and you are invited to go take a look at the stories that are hyperlinked as sources for my story, including Romney’s own admission to the Salt Lake Tribune that he had only been hunting twice (he later tried to modify his estimate to include a few times “varmint hunting”.
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article3648.html
These same news reports confirm Romney had never been an NRA member until he bought his Life Membership in preparation for his pPresidential run.
But look - the point of the article is about how Romney seems to think gun owners will be willing to just forget his anti-gun political past (or stay willfully ignorant about it). Is he right about you?
Thanks for your reply. Your Salt Lake Tribune link leads to an error page so the assertion that Romney at any point claimed to have only hunted twice remains unproven.
As I posted before,
this NY Times article explains in detail the sequence of events that took place here. Romney told a story about two instances when he went hunting and the AP ran a story portraying those two instances as being the only ones. In response, romney clarified that those weren't the only ones and that was the end of the matter.
Look, I don't know if your problem with Mitt Romney is personal or you just happen to be backing someone else. Now you claim without presenting any evidence that he has an anti-gun political past. Untrue.
Maybe you should check what the NRA had to say about him when he was governor. These make for much better sources on this subject then the Salt Lake Tribune.
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?id=2347 http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=1149