[fabsroman]

All that big wig would have needed to do is follow a board like this to figure out what is going on in the world of hunting and shooting. I didn't do much of either this past year, but I have kept up with everything by visiting this board. Thanks to everybody that posts on here. I guess Mr. Zumbo was just too busy blogging about assault rifles and putting his head where the sun don't shine, that he didn't have time to read about this great sport that he was making a living off of.

I don't hunt with these rifles, but that is because I do not own them yet. I want to get an AR-10 in .300 RSAUM and/or the standard .308 for whitetails and other big game, and I want a AR-15 in .223 and/or .260 for small game/varmints. I wouldn't hesitate to hunt with this type of rifle, and would actually have a fun time doing it. I couldn't imagine a prairie dog hunt with one of them. That would have to be a ton of fun.

Sad thing is they are trying to pass a bill in Maryland to outlaw them. Supposedly, they are cop killers, and that really pisses me off because I don't think any LEO's have been killed with them in this state that I can ever recall. What even makes me sicker about it is that I just got a new client that is seeking a protective order from the Court because her LEO ex-husband, among other things, put a gun to her and her child's head at one point and is now under investigation on several different fronts (e.g., criminal and Internal Affairs). Who is going to protect us from the bad police officers if we don't have firearms. Heck, who is going to protect me from the 300 lb linebacker looking dude that breaks into my house, armed or unarmed, he would kick me all over the place if I don't have a weapon.

It starts with the assualt rifles and handguns and works its way down to everything. I would have said except the pellet gun, but that thing does in excess of 1,000 fps and could kill somebody if used correctly. I read the article about how .50 BMG's are weapons of mass destruction, and I just had to laugh at the use of that phrase. Just because they have some serious firepower doesn't put them in the same category as nukes, dirty bombs, and chemical agents, but I guess anything other than a pen is considered a weapon of mass destruction. When you stop and think about it, I am willing to bet that pens, now computers, have caused more problems than 50 BMG rifles. I would love to know the statistics of crimes committed in this entire nation with a 50 BMG just last year, or better yet, over the last decade. Same goes for the AR's. As you can tell, this subject has me pretty fired up and I don't even own one of these rifles yet. I am so fired up that I am contemplating a move to Virginia if this law gets passed, and I used to be completely anti virginia for a place to live.