Quote:
Originally Posted by Grantham Forester
I hope no body objects to me "re-starting" a previous fine thread about Ernest Hemingway. I agree with the member who posted the comment about the astute readership here, a wealth of information. I can't comment on the combat and PTSD postings, I served 6 years in the USN Reserves, as a machinist's mate, and was discharged as an E-4. I do not know if PTSD and the inherent suicidal traits in the Hemingway family are related or not.
I did read the chapter about the Browning Superposed with interest, as my hunting partner has a similar one, with the two triggers, but his is a 20 gauge. But as a waterfowler who leaves the 3 shot plug in his Model 12 year-around, I do wonder about this, found on page 27. "In 1913, after public outcry in the US about declining wildlife numbers----- the Federal government passed the Weeks-McLean Act-- aka-- the Federal Migratory Bird law. Among many other things, this limited shotguns to holding and firing no more than 3 cartridges.--"
I am under the impression that this Law resulted in the ban against the 8 gauge, and possibly also the punt guns used by the market hunters that James Michener wrote about in his novel "Chesapeake"! Wasn't it 1935 when FDR signed into law the three-shot limited on repeating shotguns when used for water fowling?--any comments or clarifications would be welcome!
|
I have a copy of the Hemingway gun book right in front of me, and I found the passage you refer to. I wonder if the prohibition of the 8 gauge is one of the "other things" alluded to in the work that you quoted above.
I can tell you that the gandarms (Trying to spell French words is like saying pig latin backwards.) take that three shot law seriously. I've been stopped several times by those guys and after showing my license they always ask to see the plug....or to show evidence there is one in there. The three shot and anti-punt gun laws seem to go hand in hand, so they probably became law at the same time.