Opinion By Larry Keane
USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, the poor fella, just can’t help himself.
He can’t seem to land on just one good idea. His latest big idea is you can keep your AR-15, but you’ve got to keep it at a hunt club or a gun range. His very Eurocentric compromise comes on the heels of learning that some people use AR-15s to hunt deer and other game.
O’Rourke was schooled on the hunting applications of modern sporting rifles by a Des Moines, Iowa, student who told him the AR-15 was an efficient tool for harvesting deer.
“So, this is the first time that I’ve heard the case made for using an AR-15 to hunt deer,” O’Rourke said, according to a Washington Examiner report. “I’ve heard feral hogs in Texas, which are a real problem…”
That Won’t Hunt
The former Texas Congressman might want to get a better handle on his Lone Star roots. While the 5.56 mm round might be outlawed in some states for harvesting deer, it’s perfectly legal in Texas. Imagine his surprise when he learns that AR-10s look strikingly similar to AR-15s, but fire bullets in a variety of larger calibers, many perfectly suited for taking deer, antelope, elk, and even bear.
O’Rourke’s flip-flop compromise on pushing a confiscation, complete with the threat of a door-to-door visit from law enforcement to round them up, was panned by several law enforcement groups as “asinine” and “ridiculous.” This isn’t his first time wandering in the wilderness of gun control. Or just pandering.
O’Rourke once wanted to be a U.S. Senator from Texas, but couldn’t best Sen. Ted Cruz. During that campaign, he told radio personality Chad Hasty, of the “Chad Hasty Show,” that he didn’t want to confiscate modern sporting rifles.
Ignore What I Said…
“If you purchased that AR-15, if you own it, keep it,” he explained in 2018, adding, “If you own a gun, keep that gun. Nobody wants to take it away from you — at least I don’t want to do that.”
He lost handily to Sen. Cruz in that election, which of course led to him eat dirt. Literally, he ate dirt. Now, he believed it was special New Mexico dirt with regenerative powers. But at least he shared. He even brought some home for his family.
Still, think about this, O’Rourke might have opened the flood gates to a cottage industry. Hunt clubs are a thing in the United States. Many hunters pool their resources to lease properties and access hunting land. Owners of America’s rifle just need to declare themselves a hunt club and they’d have nothing to worry about when O’Rourke comes knocking on their door to collect them. “Sorry, you can’t take that. My house is a hunt club.”
In all seriousness, joining a hunt club to own guns might be the way they do things in jolly ol’ England, or Germany, but this is America. The Second Amendment is clear. It doesn’t say Americans can go to their local shooting range, gun club or hunt club and request to check out the rifle they own. Americans’ right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Not by the government. Not by a gun range or hunt club. Certainly, it can’t be the put under lock and key by a failing politician.
About National Shooting Sports Foundation
The National Shooting Sports Foundation is the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of more than 10,000 manufacturers, distributors, firearms retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen’s organizations and publishers. www.nssf.org
Let’s see…Robert Frances O’Rourke marries money (like John Kerry) and dabbles in politics because as a kept man, he has nothing else to do (like John Kerry). However, O’Rourke lacks any kind of record on much of anything, not even a suspect war record (like Kerry). We will know that O’Rourke has truly jumped the shark on his going nowhere campaign if he invites James Taylor out on the campaign trail with him to sing “You’ve got a Friend.” (Like Kerry…is this where I get me a huntin’ license?) In the old days he could have joined the “know nothing”… Read more »
Beto is a figment of his own misguided imagination (eg. I’ll be a Mexican). Because Hollywood and Soros money poured in to help him try to start blue takeover of Texas (Cruz opposition) he got to thinking he was a great politician. He’s a legend in his own mind. Then when he was getting nowhere and not getting the big money in his latest fiasco of a political campaign he tried for a master stroke, gun confiscation. When that didn’t work he decided to backpedal so he could at least return to Texas without reprisal. Ho Hum, no hunting club… Read more »
Politicians have to be the stupidest people when it comes to not knowing anything about their cause.
Sorry BEATOFF OJERK…. my weapon does not leave my side…
Larry, glad to see that you are thinking outside the box on this, but its completely unnecessary. This guy isn’t getting elected to anything. And while many leftists might fantasize about disarming the populace, it just isn’t feasible.
American citizens are not subservient to government, it’s just the other way around. The more that we watch politicians, the more we understand how criminals think. Ban this, ban that, zero tolerance, prohibit this, forbid that, disallowed now, outlawed just because I said so, and the list goes on and on. You don’t vote on, charge a fee for, or give permission to law abiding citizens to exercise Constitutional rights…Serve not Rule…