The NRA’s Idea Of Recreation: Assault Rifles, Armor-Piercing Bullets And Silencers
BY Herschel Smith
7 years, 2 months ago
The days are growing colder, and soon millions of American hunters will pursue a time-honored tradition. They will load their automatic weapons with armor-piercing bullets, strap on silencers, head off to the picnic grounds on nearby public lakes — and start shooting.
If you do not immediately recognize this pastime as part of America’s heritage, then you are sadly out of step with the current Republican majority in Congress. On Tuesday, a House panel takes up the “Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act of 2017,” which promises “to protect and enhance opportunities for recreational hunting, fishing and shooting.”
Among these recreational enhancements:
●Allowing people to bring assault guns and other weapons through jurisdictions where they are banned.
●Rolling back decades-old regulations on the use of silencers.
●Protecting the use of armor-piercing bullets.
●Easing importation of foreign-made assault rifles.
●Protecting the practice of baiting birds with grain as they migrate and then mowing them down.
But more and more hunters are finding that conventional earplugs and muffs are not adequate for today’s weapons — for example, quail hunting with an M777 howitzer or grouse hunting with an FIM-92 Stinger missile launcher.
Hmm … Quail hunting with a Howitzer. Poor, poor Dana Milbank. Poor, metrosexual, hand-wringing, paranoid, bed wetter Dana Milbank. Hey, I notice that you have a history of asking people to write your articles for you. Did you get Jennifer Mascia or someone else at Everytown to write this one for you, Dana?
If you don’t know that it’s always time to enjoy the shooting sports in America, you’re not out of step with the GOP. They couldn’t care less. You’re out of step with most of the American public in “flyover country.” You’re a chattering class resident of the beltway. You eat the food that the dirt people grow, so you depend on the dirt people for your very life.
And if you don’t like the idea of killing geese, you can let them ensconce in your yard and foul it up. They can’t walk two steps without shitting. Mean, nasty critters. I hate them.
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On September 19, 2017 at 7:57 am, Fred said:
Canada geese are nasty, almost as nasty as Dana who can’t go 2 steps without shitting all over the internet.
But to answer Dana more directly; no, the NRA’s idea of recreation is you submitting to illegal regulations at every turn. So really, they are his ally, but narrative.
On September 19, 2017 at 1:16 pm, Jack Crabb said:
“Poor, poor Dana Milbank”
Pardon the vernacular, Herschel, but FUCK that non-thinking piece of shit pussy Milbank and all the other lying liars when it comes to trying to take away my God-given right of self (and family) protection. In the ass. With a rusty chainsaw.
On September 20, 2017 at 8:27 am, Ned said:
I think Jack pretty much covered it…
On September 20, 2017 at 4:58 pm, Pat Hines said:
Before we moved back to the south, we lived in Fremont, CA. They have a lake in the city that has Canada geese they can’t get rid of because they won’t kill them.
Since geese are vegetarians, their stools are dark green and the size of what 40-60 pound dog would leave. Everyday, the geese would leave the lake and to the southern part of SF Bay and eat what ever plant grows in that part of the bay, then return in the early evening and soil up the park that surrounds the lake. The city even had created a small sand beach for children to use that was rendered unusable by goose turds.
Still, I had to laugh about the various methods the city attempted, from fireworks to border collies to run them off, none of their non-lethal methods worked.
On September 20, 2017 at 7:13 pm, Randolph Scott said:
Dana should be considered a retarded fool. Dana will not last very long should the environment go ‘sporty’.