This is a long winded rant, if you are busy best to move on to another post.
So.... I made a loop around New England yesterday and I am at Cabelas in Mass and talking with an old timer clerk about some classic firearms. He mentions how 9 out of 10 customers will walk right past all the classic/wood guns and pickup this one black pump 12ga? Same form and function as other shotguns of the walnut persuasion. I shrug my shoulders. New generation? Then he goes off on a wild rant about how the next problem for Mass will be banning pump shotguns (and semi? shotguns). This guy is old and I kinda just yea, yea, yea and move the conversation along.
I ask him, why does Cableas locate stores in gun hating states like Conn and Mass instead of New Hampshire. Not only is NH gun friendly and business friendly, there is no sales tax and just 30 miles north. Now he shrugs? I guess he needs the job so that did not go very well.
I should explain the Mass assault gun restrictions have recently been greatly expanded. Google if you need or want to know more.
I stop at another place in Mass and what do I see? Pump action AR style rifles. OMG! These do look scary. Could this be what the old man was talking about? There are new Mini 14's on the rack with wood stocks also for sale. Tell me what kind of buyer is seriously going to choose a pump 223 over a semi 223 just because the pump is black and the semi is birch? I dont know to laugh or cry? Seriously, style & color over function? How much thought does it take to figure how to purchase a black stock for a wood mini? Who is worse the misguided attorney general or the color blinded customers?
One more tangent thought. Mass and CA tend to be leaders in the liberal banning agenda. After legal battles and liberal media misinformation these ideas gain national traction. You used to be able to get pretty good diesel technology in light vehicles. That was clean, reliable and very fuel efficient. Those were banned in the two states and eventually came more national laws with extreme restrictions. And now great companies like VW are caught up trying to build complex engines that make no sense. And more guns bans seem inevitable, IMHO.
Final remark from the old man at Cableas. As I looked over four Ruger No1 rifles he says, "someday those will be the only type guns you can buy". Maybe, if even.
So.... I made a loop around New England yesterday and I am at Cabelas in Mass and talking with an old timer clerk about some classic firearms. He mentions how 9 out of 10 customers will walk right past all the classic/wood guns and pickup this one black pump 12ga? Same form and function as other shotguns of the walnut persuasion. I shrug my shoulders. New generation? Then he goes off on a wild rant about how the next problem for Mass will be banning pump shotguns (and semi? shotguns). This guy is old and I kinda just yea, yea, yea and move the conversation along.
I ask him, why does Cableas locate stores in gun hating states like Conn and Mass instead of New Hampshire. Not only is NH gun friendly and business friendly, there is no sales tax and just 30 miles north. Now he shrugs? I guess he needs the job so that did not go very well.
I should explain the Mass assault gun restrictions have recently been greatly expanded. Google if you need or want to know more.
I stop at another place in Mass and what do I see? Pump action AR style rifles. OMG! These do look scary. Could this be what the old man was talking about? There are new Mini 14's on the rack with wood stocks also for sale. Tell me what kind of buyer is seriously going to choose a pump 223 over a semi 223 just because the pump is black and the semi is birch? I dont know to laugh or cry? Seriously, style & color over function? How much thought does it take to figure how to purchase a black stock for a wood mini? Who is worse the misguided attorney general or the color blinded customers?
One more tangent thought. Mass and CA tend to be leaders in the liberal banning agenda. After legal battles and liberal media misinformation these ideas gain national traction. You used to be able to get pretty good diesel technology in light vehicles. That was clean, reliable and very fuel efficient. Those were banned in the two states and eventually came more national laws with extreme restrictions. And now great companies like VW are caught up trying to build complex engines that make no sense. And more guns bans seem inevitable, IMHO.
Final remark from the old man at Cableas. As I looked over four Ruger No1 rifles he says, "someday those will be the only type guns you can buy". Maybe, if even.