Other heroes included...Charles Schumer...I need to reserve judgment and go and look at the mag in question before jumping to any conclusions on this, because I can't believe Field and Stream would print something like this and not mean it to be tongue-in-cheek, especially with the highly-publicized Zumbo/Cooper fiascos of recent memory...
Of course, I couldn't believe their editor throwing semiautos under the bus, either...
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It's a Heroes v. Villains thing, and he's listed as a Villain,
ReplyDeleteHuh. That's pretty clumsy writing and editing in their online article then.
ReplyDeleteI noticed Miranda Lambert mentioned as a hero. I remember her on Craig Ferguson's. She talked about toting a gun. Apparently she's the real deal. Hope so. She's too talented and hot not to be -s-.
ReplyDeleteSchumer was *not* listed as a villain in the F&S article.
ReplyDeleteHe was listed as an *hero* for "for backing a Farm Bill measure to give farmers grants for opening more land to hunters".
So if someone wants to help licensed hunters with LICENSED, REGISTERED SHOTGUNS have more land to hunt, but opposes ownership of handguns and semiauto rifles as "non-sporting weapons," he's still a hero to hunting journalists. That's scary.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's why politicians say "I won't take your hunting shotguns and target rifles."
Had a Handi-Rifle once. About 14 pounds of rugged steel and wood. Leave it in your trunk for survival emergencies. Top-break single-shot. I traded it real soon, putting the money toward something more tactical, precisely because of the machinations of those like Schumer. My Browning deer rifle with wooden stock and big glass scope seems very fragile compared to my utility/defense rifle, my AR-15. I am not a sportsman, I am a militiaman. The Constitution and the US Code say so.
Heroes, Charles Schumer:
ReplyDelete"He surprised gun owners by backing a Farm Bill measure to create grants for farmers to open more land to hunters."
-- F&S December 2008 -January 2008, page 126.