Chantilly VA Gun Show Sept. 26, 27, 28

[Bruce Day]

The NRA has become an assault weapons organization, called by them modern sporting rifles. If you have any doubt, attend, as I have, a national convention and meeting.

At the last one in 2013 in Houston we set up a large Parker display of about 44 nice guns. Although many enjoyed looking at the old guns and asking if they could still be used, the main attractions were black guns.

Close to us was a simulated hunting scene involving a 15-20 foot screen and a front railing with several M 15 clones shooting lasers. The idea was to hit a running bear, deer or elk as it ran the length of the back screen. Of course the shooters sprayed laser bullets all over. No need for marksmanship, trigger control, focus, concentrated breathing, anything else that we teach. Just point and pull and keep pulling.

So these old fashioned Winchesters that can hold 8 or so cartridges and have a lever feed that cycles only at the rate of hand and wrist movement are hopelessly antiquated. The modern shooter needs 15 rounds at least and a cycle rate as fast as the trigger can be pulled and released.