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Originally Posted by justjim
I have owned guns most of my life primarily to hunt and target shoot with my Dad and a few close friends. When Dad passed and I retired, I retired my hunting guns and moved to Florida. Golf is my primary hobby and I love the game but it sure would have been nice if he had bought me a set of golf clubs along with that BB gun and first shotgun. I still have a couple of personal guns at home that actually belonged to my Dad and a close friend. We never had any thoughts or discussions about having any gun to protect us from “the Government”. That just seems “weird” to me but to each his own. Fore
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Fear of the big bad government is a TOOL used to separate gun enthusiasts from their money to the tune of up to $5,000 per rifle. Hunting rifles cost less. About 1990 Americans lost interest in hunting and the outdoors and factory farms made for fewer game animals and hunting areas than the older smaller farms provided. So to keep up their profits the manufacturers pointed young city-dwelling MEN toward paintball and then convinced them that they NEEDED expensive semi-auto rifles (just like GI joe and Sue) in case they needed to fight their government in the streets in pitched battles house to house.