The Latest From NEPA

[JWFilips]

As Many of you folks should know about the the State Police shooting in PA
Just want you to know what the media in Scranton PA has published.

"If you own a 308 Win caliber rifle ...Why do you have such a powerful deadly Rifle?" "If you belonged to your high school Rifle Team...Why why would you be so motivated?" "If you take part in any historical Re-enactments why would you do this?"
"If you go to the rifle range on a regular basis ...what are your motives are you planning something Bad?"
Well this is my take on the ridiculous postings in the Scranton Times / Tribune Newspaper ( total liberal / socialist)
Holy **** are they looking for me! These folks cite fear in the uniformed for lack of true knowledge Which they can not secure!
The world..... this country very sad!!!

[jcwit]

With the world in the shape it's currently in, I ask why would one not do these things?

[monadnock#5]

It's political correctness at work. The writer chose to vilify the only group for which he will receive no flack from the people whose opinion he cares about.

[TXGunNut]

Look for attempts to ban evil scoped "sniper" (hunting) rifles. We obviously don't need such highly accurate and powerful rifles. Mainstream media has once again found a firearm it doesn't understand to demonize.

[JWFilips]

Look for attempts to ban evil scoped "sniper" (hunting) rifles. We obviously don't need such highly accurate and powerful rifles. Mainstream media has once again found a firearm it doesn't understand to demonize.

Oh Yes the Model 70 Winchester was cited here as a very deadly gun caliber .308 Winchester I just hope you folks do not have one of them! And please do not say you shot on your high school rifle team!!! & Oh yes I hope you guys don't go to the range on a "Regular Basis"!!!
Oh also don't hunt doves in the Local area in camo gear!...The locals will turn you in as the "propitiator"!!!
This is way crazy!

[MaryB]

Banning scoped rifles was part of a book... "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" it is an insight into where our government is headed.

[Bzcraig]

I just had an epiphany! Liberals really think they are 'enlightened' but it's only because they are so shallow. But even as shallow as they are, they are never transparent!

[Col4570]

It must have been some reporter on their first story making a hash of it.Some will go over the top to demonise shooters.My sunday visits to the range puts me into one of the categories listed.We have similar media reports here in the UK.One was to stop the evils of RIFLE shooting at the local Clay Club.

[imashooter2]

An attempt to ban scoped bolt actions might be the best thing that ever happened to the pro gun movement. All of those blue steel and wood deer hunters that thought it could never happen to them will suddenly have skin in the game.

[Lead Fred]

If they think them 308 girlie rounds are the worse, wait till they see my 45/70

Face it kids, they are after every gun, every where, because they know you can not enslave an armed public.

They can have mine, the minute after I die, and not a freakin second before

and I dont give a **** how many feel good laws anyone makes.

Fore my GOD has commanded me to preserve life, and I shall until He takes me away

Until then, Praise the Lord, and pass the ammo



"and we will all stay FREE"

[dragon813gt]

I haven't been up there lately to read the papers. But I did talk to someone who lives there. I asked the simple question of "is the media blowing everything out of proportion"? And his answer was "yes" of course. I've noticed they keep using the term high power rifle. I guess they've never heard of the magnums. All rifles are high power but a 308 is not near the top. As usual they are picking and choosing what they want to report.

I caught hell for saying this in another thread. I want to know where that author is originally from. Or where their parents are from. Those questions do not fit a Pennsylvanian. Sounds like an immigrant mind set to me. The area has changed a lot since the late eighties. And not for the better.

[hiram1]

It is the nut behind the trigger.Not the gun .My God is that so hard to think about.

[Dan Cash]

This sillyness is not only from the biased press. This morning, my wife and I heard an interview with some PA police mouthpiece regarding this manhunt. To hear him talk, any one with out of doors primitive camping/survival skills is a suspect criminal.

[dragon813gt]

This sillyness is not only from the biased press. This morning, my wife and I heard an interview with some PA police mouthpiece regarding this manhunt. To hear him talk, any one with out of doors primitive camping/survival skills is a suspect criminal.

Considering the area that means almost everyone. Pretty much everyone hunts and owns firearms. Not counting the people that have seasonal homes there. But even a good portion of them have them for hunting purposes, why I have mine. A LEO making statements like that just fuels the us versus them mentality.

[starmac]

I keep hearing in the news that a survivalist is responsible for this, why do they keep calling him a survivalist, instead of a lunatic. Did the leo do something to him, threaten him or his family??

[Boyscout]

I heard some Sporting Clay types badmouthing the range they shot at for carrying handguns and rifles. A little ticked off, I asked, "Do you really think Obama and the democrats are going to give you a pass because your $30,000 Krieghoff is prettier than my 870 Express?" I didn't get an answer.

By the way, I own a pretty Weatherby Athena with engraving and gold inlayed doggies on the reciever. It shoots the same stuff my parkerized, camoflauged, synthetic stock 870 Express does. I don't have a synthetic stock because I want to be more dangerous looking; I have it because the original wood stock would swell and jam when I hunted in the rain during turkey season.

[WallyM3]

I'm still waiting for the story that reports someone was shot with a medium powered rifle.

[dragon813gt]

I'm still thinking if it had been a random shooting of someone besides a LEO there would be no massive manhunt using tons of resources and shutting down roads. I'm not a cop hater. But someone needs to ask these questions. Seems like a pretty massive double standard.

Oh, and the guy I talked to. Said that people in the area knew of this guy and how he had a few screws loose. And the law enforcement was fully aware of him as well. Seems like we're coming back to mental health issue yet again.

As far as medium power rifle. I can download my 1894C to that level. But I sure as hell wouldn't want to get shot w/ it

[nagantguy]

If they think them 308 girlie rounds are the worse, wait till they see my 45/70

Face it kids, they are after every gun, every where, because they know you can not enslave an armed public.

They can have mine, the minute after I die, and not a freakin second before

and I dont give a **** how many feel good laws anyone makes.

Fore my GOD has commanded me to preserve life, and I shall until He takes me away

Until then, Praise the Lord, and pass the ammo



"and we will all stay FREE"

A man after my own heart, well said a d God bless you and your'n.

[troyboy]

The idiot shouldn't of shot a LEO. Any body that would hunt a trooper is an extra special crazy.