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Doug Kanter wrote:
He used a shotgun.
According to our chief of police, he had two weapons. A "pistol
grip"
shotgun and an "assault rifle."
A "pistol grip" is a choice by the shooter which enables the ability
to
bring your arm down tighter to the body to better control the weapon.
What is the definition of an "assualt rifle?"
You would need to ask our Chief of Police what he had in mind when he
used the term.
My guess is that anything with a 30 round magazine is considered an
assault weapon.
So, a BB gun with a tubular magazine that can hold 40 or 50 projectiles is
an assualt weapon?
I'm sure they come in real handy when stalking deer.
Depends upon whether you just want to wound the deer or ensure the deer is
killed.
I don't really give a damn how many rounds someone carries in one magazine.
But, I know a family of real hunters. Grandfather, three sons, 4 grandkids.
None of them carry rifles whose mags hold more than 3-5 rounds, and they
usually need just two shots to do the job. I suppose these people are
unusually skilled, though. Maybe.
Around 1972, I was having lunch at the Roscoe Diner, on route 17 in the
Catskills, when one of a group of knucklehead hunters blew out the window of
a NY State trooper's car with his shotgun. The trooper just shook his head,
put down his coffee, looked at the waitress and said "They're back..." It
was the first day of hunting season, and all the beginners from NYC were in
the area.
Maybe those are the idiot hunters you're thinking of when you say 30 rounds
is handy to have. What the hell was the guy in the parking lot doing with
buckshot in the gun during deer season, when slugs are the correct load?
(Never mind that the gun shouldn't have been loaded to start with). Or, the
local guy who, last November, blew his kneecap to bits while loading his
dead deer into his pickup.