09-06-2013, 02:03 PM
All this craziness begins incrementally. We are very lucky in Montana to have people who are on the front lines confronting this type of insanity every moment of the day. It is important for all firearm owners and shooters to put their differences aside and stand completely together when it comes to gun rights issues or this type of insanity will take over. When I first started in practical shooting there were just a hand full of families who competed together. Today there are many families involved and competing together. I encourage all shooters to introduce people from all walks of life to the shooting sports. The more non shooters we bring into into the shooting sports the less crazy anti gun laws will be created by want to be dictators. I have turned many people from the dark side and during the process added more people to my friends list. It is great to see an individual who has replaced their misunderstanding fear of firearms with the love of shooting. If the VA Highway patrol who pulled up to LRRP52 were three gun competitors they probably would have detained him longer talking about his equipment choices, tactics and up coming events rather than looking to pin a firearms fraction on him.