ORIGINAL: Whitehorn

I personally don't need a semi-auto to hunt with and love my model 70. All of us in our group do not hunt with a chambered round.. Too many close calls and as my buddy says, "there's nothing safe about a safety".. If anybody hunted with a semi in our group I would hope that out of courtesy to our safety standards, they would not have a round chambered and ready to go.. But I don't have a problem with semis, I just prefer a bolt.

But as far as gun control goes, the big problem is the gun industry, not governments or gun control. Guns stick around for a long, long time, generations in fact, yet the manufacturers need to keep producing and move their stock. Where does this stock go? Well manufacturers claim they don't know and do not claim any responsability for their guns getting into illegal hands. Which is a lame excuse and they are turning a blind eye. Every other company in the Western Hemisphere practically tracks their products to their market and end users and know who is doing what with their widget.. Marketing needs this info as does the Warrenty department.

If gun manufacturers showed some responsability and only sold appropriate volumes (to satisfy us, law abiting citizens) we would not need gun control laws or governement intervention. And probably most of the gun industry would collapse too..