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Mature black-tailed buck taken in Oregon circa 1944.

None of this will stop "straw purchases" of ammo by people able to pass a background check who want to sell it to criminals for a profit. Ammo has no serial number and cannot be distinguished from any other ammo of the same make and caliber. So criminals will still get the ammo they want by using straw purchasers that will make money doing it. This law will probably create a huge black market for ammo purchased in other states and sold face to face in NY. Ammo sellers in NY are the ones that will suffer the huge loss of revenue. NY will also suffer the loss of tax revenue from ammo sales. Another example of how dumb Democrats are.

The Democrats hate all guns. They know it hurts legal sportsmen. They want them disarmed too. The utopia they seek is an unrealistic ideal that can never be achieved, but they intend to destroy us all trying to achieve it.

1941 Quebec

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment. The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." The older lady said that she was right our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to explain: Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So, they really were recycled. But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day. Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used to wad up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then. Back then, people took the streetcar, or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing" We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then? We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off...Especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.

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So quick question does this still count as baiting if you can see it from your tree stand?

1940's

Adirondacks in the 1960's

Biden crackdown is bad news for gun dealers: Joe Biden's attack on Americans' Second Amendment rights in the name of "commonsense gun control" is resulting in an increase in the number of gun dealers losing their licenses. The number licenses revoked by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) last fiscal year topped out at 122. That number was up from 90 the previous year and 27 in fiscal year 2021. During both the Obama and Trump eras, the annual number of dealers who lost their licenses never exceeded 81. It's apparent that Biden's ATF has been ratcheting up its dubious paperwork demands on gun dealers in an effort to shut them down. One gun dealer who fell victim to Biden's ATF contends, "This policy is designed to be a backdoor violation of the Second Amendment." Ironically, Biden's ATF is making an enemy out of gun dealers, who have acted as the first line of defense against illegal gun trafficking. As former ATF Deputy Assistant Director Peter Forcelli observes, "Why are we now beating an ally into submission?"