Thread: We have too many guns on our streets

Banning semi's won't make us look more "acceptable" to the general public. If you don't beleve me look at Australia.

I am gobsmacked that people don't think semi's are applicable to hunting. 99% of duck shooters changed over to semis for several reasons and large mags wasn't one of them. I have shot for two years with a pump and then changed over to a semi and would never go back. Softer shooting and faster, more accurate follow up shots.

History repeats. At one stage "normal" firearms were single shot and then magazine fed bolt actions were introduced. There was much hand wringing about "wasting ammo" and more than one military rifle had a mag cut off so that you could single feed the gun. Groups of blokes would have stood around in hunting clubs and talked about how the sport was being ruined by those new fangled magazine guns and how the decline in game numbers is being caused by unskilled hunters with multi shot guns wounding animals.

It's all the same exept now bolt action mag fed guns are "standard" and semi auto modern sporting rifles are the new kid on the block. If you ban them you turn your back on 100 years of technology and thats just plain silly if not a little stupid.