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In reply to the discussion: Welcome to new members who, just coincidentally, use assault rifles to hunt! [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)A.- there is no rural poverty
B.- People do not hunt to supplement their livelihood.
It's so strange and uncommon the Bureau of Land Management issues subsistence hunting licenses. Suffice it to say, most rifles used in this pursuit are not AR-15 but rather much older riffles.
I must conclude that you live in a city, are a hipster, and really are ignorant of the deep rural poverty in this country. Use the google and enter "Appalachia and poverty" in your string. Then enter images.
After you are done educating yourself, enter "Innuit and subsistence hunting." In your hate of all weapons owners you do need an education into these shades of gray that are very real.
Oh and those two are but the two major areas where this happens. Suffice to say, most of these folks are not using the latest and meanest gun you find at five sporting goods. They are using hand me downs. Some as old as a hundred years old. Some were state of the art, when the seventh cavalry went into the little big horn...
I also recommend Deer Hunting with Jesus.