Posted March 25, 2019 4:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Townhall Media/Beth Baumann

Gun rights advocates have long warned them.

Fudds–people who usually start their anti-gun views with, “I’m a gun owner, but…”–have long sided with anti-gunners while laboring under the belief that their beloved hunting weapons would be untouched. Almost invariably, these people are hunters who take an anti-gun stance for everything not connected with hunting. The self-defense Fudd is a rare species indeed.

It seems that Fudds are always under the belief that your guns are up for discussion, but not theirs.

However, a writer for Salon is freaking out over long distance shooting –you know, the kind that most people use bolt-action, hunting-style rifles for–and asks the one question we AR-15 fans have heard over and over again [emphasis mine]:

OK, their use of “insane” is a kind of gun-lover-hipster-speak, and the Scorpio isn’t a semiautomatic assault rifle like the ones used to kill 20 children and six teachers at Sandy Hook, or the the 50 Muslim worshipers in Christchurch, New Zealand, or the 17 students and faculty killed in Parkland, Florida, or the 58 concertgoers in Las Vegas. But it’s the same style of weapon, with the same style aluminum stock and ventilated “rails” alongside its barrel, and …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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