Posted on 11/22/2016 4:32:28 AM PST by major_gaff
Gov. Tom Wolf has signed legislation that removes a ban on hunting with semi-automatic rifles.
Act 168 of 2016, formerly House Bill 263, also removes the ban on air- and gas-powered rifles.
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When has the left ever legally reversed a restriction of freedom for the purpose of precipitating a "gotcha" event?
That is simply not how they work.
This bill deals with SA rifles...SA shotguns were legal prior
Stay outta the shitholes in the corners and you'll be amongst (mostly) like minds.
The T is the place to be ;-)
When you’re trying to get rid of the wild hogs tearing up your land, it doesn’t matter if it’s “sporting” or not.
I agree with you on all your points. My family has been hunting deer for generations. Semi automatics are not sporting. And they are dangerous as most people have not taken the Hunter Safety course the NRA used to provide.
My late husband, a Brit and from South Africa, was shocked by the shooting the first day of hunting season. He wrote to the local paper in Kwa Zulu Natal and told them all about it. “Hundreds of men and women and children in the woods, shooting from dawn to dusk. Sounds like a war.”
I, too, live in PA and we hunker down to big main roads and post no trespassing signs...if you don’t post, anyone can walk across your land. No one can shoot within 500 feet of the town boundry...good grief, that little law must have been put together in the 1700’s. Totally useless now to protect town’s people.
However, we desperately need the 2nd Amendment and I approve of hunting if people eat what they kill and to cull herds.
I chose a semi auto to hunt caribou in alaska. Have you ever seen how fast a bear charges?
“The T is the place to be ;-)”
I had to look up that reference but yes, I am in Susquehanna Co. Although uncomfortably close to parts of NY and NJ, Trump signs beat Hitlery signs about 20 to 1.
Lewis and Clark took an air rifle on their exploration of the west. A repeater at that! While testing it in St Louis one touched the trigger and sent a bullet through the brim of a woman’s hat while she was walking down a street.
They used it to awe the Indians, and only had ONE run in with Indians on the way back.
can’t beat the .35...hunert yards on in, thru brush....even 150or 2ooyds with confidence
The idea is to get a clean kill or to follow up on a wounded animal quickly. A second shot with a simple trigger pull is faster than operating the bolt and may well be the difference between a humane finish and hours of tracking a hurting beast.
Here in PA you cannot get a license without going through the hunter safety course, it has been that way at least two decades. The idea that new shooters will be unsafe is kind of odd, given that fact. Most of the accidents I have read about or have had an occasion to hear about were experienced hunters, not new ones.
They will most likely limit the semi-auto mag capacity to 3 shots, vs. I believe there is no limit on the regular manually operated rifles. So you will have a choice of a magazine of 3 with a rapid action, or the 5 to 6 shots common on bolt actions/tube fed lever actions. Seems kind of fair.
In the urban counties such as Bucks, Delaware and Montgomery they limit the use of arms to shotgun/black powder. That will not change.
Allowing modern sporting rifles (like the AR) for hunting is needed to make the next step in gun protection: ta role back the semi auto bans in states like New York, New Jersey and CA. To make the 14th amendment argument in court it is best to have semi-auto rifles recognized as hunting arms by the largest number of states possible.
I really see no down side to it.
Texas Parks and Wildlife considers it to be hunting and will enforce accordingly, unless you are hunting on your own land.
For mine and my sons Marlins, I hand load 180 grain Speer flat points. They can be zeroed to 3-4”.high at 100yards. They’re right on at 50 and 150 and a few iinches low at 200 yds. At 100 yds they shoot 1” groups.
BTW I don’t like the hornady leverevolution ammo accuracy.
York County State Senator Scott Wagner, my hometown elected official and considered the most conservative “Tea Party” politician in the state, has already announced.
He would be Pennsylvania’s Trump and Trump’s victory in PA helped fuel the decision no doubt.
I support Republican Scott Wagner for governor......
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I do the same thing with my stuff. .270 two inches high at 100 yds with 135gr BT’s. At three hundred yards all you need to do is put the cross hairs on the target and let her rip. My 06’s all one inch high at 100yds with 150 BT’s (Hornady) funstuff.
I got a bunch of brass to work up over the winter. where are you located?
YOU GOT IT DIALED IN ...
I do the same thing with my stuff. .270 two inches high at 100 yds with 135gr BT’s. At three hundred yards all you need to do is put the cross hairs on the target and let her rip. My 06’s all one inch high at 100yds with 150 BT’s (Hornady) funstuff.
I got a bunch of brass to work up over the winter. where are you located?
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