Ryan outfits 10 yr old daughter with deer-hunting gear (gave her rifle as gift at age 9)

[k2qb3]

183. Not an issue IMO...

I don't hunt anymore, but I used to take a deer every year when we were poor. I never liked hunting, and I never liked butchering day growing up (my folks were 70's back to the landers) but I do like to eat.

I may or may not take my daughters hunting depending on whether they want to do so.

As for buying a child a gun, my kids had guns that were "theirs" before they were born. I shot competitive 3-gun and CAS before my eyes went and I wouldn't discourage my kids from doing so if they wanted to. Uncertainty about the future availability of many firearms drives sales. A kid needs a rifle that suits them if they're going to hunt, I doubt Ryans daughter is keeping it loaded in her room.

Glock pictures...gun culture in general is driven by gun control. Nothing sold so many "assault weapons" as the assault weapons ban, and nothing feeds the gun picture fad like the outrage of anti-gun people.

I understand the impulse, but even if you believe guns should be completely done away with as a practical matter measures attempting to ban features are extremely counterproductive. The AWB still being in the platform is a huge mistake IMO, it costs us house seats, it probably cost us the presidency in 2000/2004.