Fair Taxation

[Thunder Gulch]

I've always been somewhat conflicted by gun regulations. As a lifelong sportsman/hunter, semi-auto shotguns and rifles are nothing unusual for me. Most firearms are in fact semi-auto, and I've hunted with them since I was 8 years old. I have a dozen guns now, but I've never bought one with the idea of home protection (I don't own any handguns).

As a gun owner, however, I don't see any use or even any appeal for fully automatic or "assault" rifles. The nuts argue that if you let them take those away, they'll come after my hunting rifles next. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't buy that argument.

Limits on ammo don't work for me either. We do a lot of trap/skeet/target shooting on the farm as opposed to a controlled range. I'm not talking about thousands of assault rounds, but it's nothing to go through a couple of cases of shotgun shells through the course of a year that includes recreational and hunting outings.