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I really do not understand guns. When young I had a 12 guage shotgun because the neighbor boy who I was in love with (unrequited) had one and his dad took us rabbit hunting a couple times. After my first kill -- actually had to stomp on its head to finish it) I stopped using any gun.

Now I cannot comment about cun owners in remote areas. Maybe there is some need that I do not understand.

But using guns "for fun" eludes me. Sorry, it just seems perverse, weak and an expression of insecurity to me.

Honestly, I feel the same way about golf.

It was a few experiences like this that spoiled the whole hunting thing for me too.

I've lived in a very remote location for 35 years. We have alligators, water moccasins, rattlesnakes, an occasional rabid hog, coon or fox.
I am far removed from any law enforcement protection should someone decide they want to kill me, rape the womenfolk and take all I have.
I don't own a firearm. Don't really see any need to own one for "self defense".
Might kinda like to have one to shoot a few of these fat, corn fed, squirrels around here. It's the only way I'm gonna get squirrel gravy and rice.

Well so do I

I am quite sure that you have no idea what a normal retail ammo sale is. I do. In most, if not all, of America it does not involve background checks. It does not involve providing the state the names of purchasers of ammo.

Posts do not necessarilly stand in isolation, Pi. And strangely, conversation tends to follow or build upon previous comments. My opening post was about the stupidity of background checks and limiting sales. Another poster suggested that these would not interfer with "normal ammo sales". I said such restrictions do not represent
"normal ammo sales". Sorry if that remains confusing to you. ;-)
Yours in patience,
Issodhos

So I take it you don't approve of guns on golf courses.

Only if it is limited to shooting other golfers

That's the great thing about golfers. The celebrate it when you shoot a hole in one.

I see absolutely no problem with regulating ammo sales. A firearm is really just a "weapon system." It requires more than one component to operate. Concerns about regulation of ammo sales are no different than for any other gun regulation, and tend to be driven by the same paranoia. In many ways regulation of ammo sales is better because ammunition is a fungible, expendible, and perishable item. It moves through the market faster and wider than guns themselves. Bullets are produced by the billions, rather than millions.

Ahem... I suppose that deserves recognition.