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To: jazusamo
“We need to start today on efforts to prevent the next attack,” he said in a statement. “We should begin by passing my legislation to ban the sale of high-capacity gun magazines. No sportsman needs 100 rounds to shoot a duck, but allowing high-capacity magazines in the hands of killers like James Holmes and Jared Loughner puts law enforcement at a disadvantage and innocent lives at risk.”

Come on, now. Do you even use a rifle to shoot ducks? Most of the duck hunters I know use shotguns.

I suppose there might be somebody out there bagging waterfowl with a rifle, but I honestly think they'd be an exception, not the rule.
75 posted on 07/29/2012 6:15:48 PM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: Milton Miteybad

:: suppose there might be somebody out there bagging waterfowl with a rifle, but I honestly think they’d be an exception, not the rule. ::

Actually, they would be felon and in violation of the Federal Waterfowl Act.


119 posted on 07/30/2012 10:38:47 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Milton Miteybad
No sportsman needs 100 rounds to shoot a duck

But noted sportswoman Kim Rhodes does need 100 rounds a day for training in her sport.

139 posted on 07/31/2012 9:42:28 AM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Another day. Another small provocation. Another step closer.)
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