Duane,

My statement about rifles and traps was to make a point about how legal status and attitudes toward something can change just by crossing a border. Have states really traditionally not permitted crossbows because they aren't recognized as bows. Or, has it been more of an issue of simply not permitting them because they were viewed as providing some sort of unfair advantage compared to other bows? And, as i said before, that is really a moot point anyway, since more and more states are permitting crossbows. Laws, like hunting technology and peoples attitudes toward it, do change. You don't have to like it, but when you start preaching against it, you do come across like a soapbox preacher in the French Quarter during Mardi Gras.