You are right about the non gun owners not caring. If you don't hunt or shoot at the range you probably don't own a long rifle. Some folks may buy guns for self defense. These folks may own a hand gun or a shot gun for that purpose.
I hunt and have hunted since I was 8 years old. I was lucky to grow up in an area where I could hunt. There were fewer houses back in those days in that area and I had free roam of the field and woods behind my parents house.
But these days those same farm fields are developed and have ten homes on them. What use to be farmland is now a suburb.
Today we have fewer areas where people can hunt. If you are not a land owner (big farm) or pay for a hunting lease you probably don't hunt these days. To me that is the scary thing.
I think that right now there are still many people with guns who fill fight the anti gun folks.
But the future doesn't look bright for many potential new hunters. Finding land to hunt on is getting harder in some areas of the USA. Maybe in KY there is still a lot of farms and field where non land owners can still hunt. But the area where I live it's getting harder to find good hunting land. Hunting on public land may support a few new hunters but I've found that hunting on public land *****! Too many hunters on small areas that are still public hunting lands.
The one thing that we hunters have in our back pocket is the Constitution. The Supreme Court needs to continue to side with the gun owners or there could be trouble down the road. I'll be gone before that happens.
Originally Posted by DJD
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