Of all the shooters at the club, the worst of the worst when it comes to attitude seem to be the shotgun shooters. These guys will spend $6,000 on a fancy trap or skeet shotgun and not skip a heartbeat, but they question why anyone wants one of those EBRs or some kind of military-looking firearm. These guys should know better, but they have blinders on when it comes to firearms that are outside their small group of favorites.
Whenever I hear one of these self-appointed “experts” mouthing off, I remind them that the gun grabbers mean to take ALL of their precious guns and they make no distinction of whose they want. They want ALL of them.
I agree, hunt club shotgunners are probably the biggest guns snobs. And I’m a shotgunner, but I rely on a vintage Remington 870 rather than anything fancier. That doesn’t mean I don’t regard the classic side by side double as the most beautiful of all gun types.
But it’s extremely shortsighted of the snobs to think that they won’t eventually be targeted. Their shotguns will wind up in a locked vault at a gun club under the new order, like in UK right now, or confiscated. A gun is a gun is a gun to the gungrabbers, and is anything more wicked at close range than a sawed off double barrel?
What’s ugly about a black assault rifle lookalike, anyway? In the hands of a patriot, it can be a thing of beauty indeed.
This NYT writer still has her nutcake side. How the heck can you own guns and absolutely not anticipate using them defensively?
Dunno why.
As a sometime member of the Cowboy action shooting clique, I don’t own a “black rifle” but I like the fact that others do. I keep thinking that someone needs to create an “Action Movie Shooting Society” that uses EBRs, high-capacity automatic shotguns, high-capacity automatic pistols, grenade simulators, etc.
The fact that I like lever action Winchester M1887 replica for my home defense gun, is just a personal choice.
No, this is in-group snobbery and snottiness. This is Business Roundtable types showing off their trophy guns, while reminding one another that, "one of these days, we're going to have to get around to taking them away from the rest of those yahoos, the hoi polloi."
The Pew Sociology Surveys (1999 and at intervals since) identified almost 20 years ago a group of nominally-Republican big shots, businessmen mostly, who are very, very weak on RKBA. Their "position" in society disposes them favorably toward depriving other people of their rights, especially RKBA. Pew researchers lingered over these guys, speculating (drooling) over the possibility that the grabbers might find unlooked-for allies (Iscariots) among this group who would give the confiscators key political help at the moment juste.
These guys are about as warm and friendly as a roomful of cobras and should be regarded as likely to turn on other gun owners in a showdown with, e.g., Barky and his thugs.