{"id":689,"date":"2017-06-15T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2017\/06\/15\/a-most-sensible-suggestion\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:27:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:27:50","slug":"a-most-sensible-suggestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"A Most Sensible Suggestion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5823,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.joehuffman.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/blog.joehuffman.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8397,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.boomershoot.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250117170133\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.boomershoot.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 05:24:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 16:49:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 16:49:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8398,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.joehuffman.org\\\/2017\\\/06\\\/14\\\/a-practical-suggestion&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/blog.joehuffman.org\\\/2017\\\/06\\\/14\\\/a-practical-suggestion&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8399,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/nssf.org\\\/Rimfire\\\/#&amp;panel1-1&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20231120070312\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www3.nssf.org\\\/rimfire\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 05:25:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 16:49:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 16:49:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8400,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nssf.org\\\/rimfire\\\/files\\\/RimfireChallengeRulebook2017.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nJoe Huffman who blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.joehuffman.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The View from North Central Idaho<\/a> and who is the man behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boomershoot.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boomershoot<\/a> has made <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.joehuffman.org\/2017\/06\/14\/a-practical-suggestion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a most sensible suggestion<\/a> given the events yesterday in Alexandria.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>I would like to suggest that congress drop baseball as the annual sport competition between Democrats and Republicans. If this had been practice for a three-gun match or even a IPDA, USPSA, or steel match fewer innocent people would have been injured.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHe&#8217;s correct, of course. If any of these members of Congress had been armed with even a pistol, it would have brought more force to bear on the shooter and ended things sooner.<\/p>\n<p>Where I see problems arising is trying to get the sides to agree on what rifles are OK to use, how large a magazine is allowed, etc. For example, given how many Democrats are pushing for restrictions on standard capacity magazines, would there be an agreement that only California-compliant 10 round magazines could be used?<\/p>\n<p>One way to get around would be to make it a <a href=\"http:\/\/nssf.org\/Rimfire\/#&amp;panel1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NSSF Rimfire Challenge<\/a> sort of event. Rimfire means no arguments on whether it is a &#8220;high powered assault rifle&#8221; or merely a rifle firing an intermediate cartridge with ugly cosmetics. It would by definition not be &#8220;high powered&#8221;. Moreover, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nssf.org\/rimfire\/files\/RimfireChallengeRulebook2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rulebook <\/a>allows magazines to be restricted to 10-round capacity so that eliminates that argument. Finally, since from what I can tell, all the targets are steel plates of one non-human form or another, no one could bring &#8220;you&#8217;re a racist&#8221; accusations by saying that black human silhouette targets actually represent African-Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Do I think congressional Democrats and Republicans will make the switch from baseball to action shooting? No but it is fun to speculate about it.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Huffman who blogs at The View from North Central Idaho and who is the man behind Boomershoot has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1528,1529,21,1530],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-action-shooting","tag-alexandria-va","tag-humor","tag-joe-huffman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11098,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/11098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}