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Updated: May 16, 2025
It is natural for the Remington, and Winchester, and Marlin gun-makers to say, as they do, "Enforce the laws! Shorten the open seasons! Reduce the bag limit, and then it won't matter what guns are used! But, DON'T touch autoloading guns! Don't hamper Inventive Genius!" Is it not high time for American sportsmen to cease taking their moral principles and their codes of ethics from the gun-makers?
The autoloading gun is reloaded and cocked again wholly by its own recoil. Now, if these are not machine guns, what are they? Every human action is a matter of taste and individual honor. It is natural for the duck-butchers of Currituck to love the automatic shot-guns as they do, because they kill the most ducks per flock.
The State Game Commission should have power to close the shooting seasons on any species of game in any locality, whenever a species is threatened with extinction. The sale of native wild game, from all sources, should be permanently stopped, by a Bayne law. The use of automatic, "autoloading" and pump shot guns in hunting should be perpetually barred.
The use of pump and autoloading guns in hunting should be prohibited. In Indiana the white-tailed deer is extinct. This means very close hunting, and a bad outlook for all other game larger than the sparrow.
We will not "limit the bag, and enforce the laws," while we permit the makers and users of autoloading and pump guns to kill at will, as they demand.
Enact at once a five-year close season law on the remnant of ruffed grouse, quail, woodcock, snipe, and all shore birds. Even in the home of the newest and deadliest "autoloading" shotgun, those guns and pump guns should be prohibited in hunting. The enormous bag limits of 35 rail and 50 each per day of plover, snipe and shore birds is a crime!
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