It’s looking like the gun control dreams of many a liberal are crashing and burning short of the runway of reality as more Americans wake up to what is being attempted.

“A massive boycott backed by the NRA and outdoorsmen and women outraged that the nation’s largest outdoors show banned the exhibition of assault weapons has caused the show’s organizers to abruptly cancel the week-long event in Harrisburg, Pa.

The successful boycott, started by the website mynortheastoutdoors.com, was the biggest demonstration of support by the outdoors industry yet against gun control efforts being pushed in Washington and in several states.”

http://washingtonexaminer.com/nra-boycott-kills-outdoors-show-that-banned-assault-weapons/article/2519579#.UQGPYmfVEwq

http://www.pagunblog.com/2013/01/24/the-eastern-sports-outdoor-show-is-off/

Interesting that “assault weapon” is interchangeably used with “sporting rifle.” Which is it?
What kind of sport needs a rapid-fire fire military weapon self-loaded by a 30 round (or more) magazine? What kind of game makes such a weapon a preference for hunting? If ten rounds can’t take down a rabbit or wild turkey then how will a bananna magazine make a difference?

Here is a fact that will twist the gun grabbers in a knot. The AR-15 style of rifle is the most popular centerfire rifle in America.
Even though it is a low power, small caliber gun.

http://www.gunsandammo.com/2012/03/03/the-ar-15-more-popular-than-ever-and-still-under-attack/

Hey catpaw, here is sport that doesn’t involve killing. It’s call “tactical rifle competition”. And they use those big ‘ol nasty high capacity magazines. And FYI, all these rifles are semi-auto, not like the machine gun that you seem fixated on.

Let me guess, the bananna magazine holds just 10 rounds and there’s no way the weapon can be modified into an automatic weapon.

That’s six seconds a potential victim can get out of the way or find cover or let a cop get an aim.

The AR 15 was modeled for the M 16, which fired the 7.62 NATO round. Fully automatic it has a firing rate of 800 rounds per minute.Darn handy, if you’re a soldier in a jungle; never used it for duck hunting. Did get to see what it could do to a chicken when a nervous troop “heard something” to his front at night.

Hate to break it to ya Cat but the M16 is and always has been 5.56×45 (.223). The M14 is 7.62×51 and nothing was patterend after it. It was the last big bore rifle used as standard issue. If you don’t believe me, and I’m sure you don’t then do a wiki look up. I only spent 21 years in the military so what do I know.

here ya go, did it for ya. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M16_rifle

You’re right. Now that I think of it, it was the M-14. I stand corrected.
But for all that, machine guns should be banned.