Hunters really are asking: Where are the ducks?
"Where are the ducks?" That’s the question hunters across the country have been asking for the last couple years. I’ve been asking it myself. And, I can tell you, it’s disconcerting. Something is...
View ArticleHunters, Locavores and Environmentalists
Last week, I wrote my first diary on DailyKos about the impact of climate change on hunting -- based on my first hand experience. That same day, Steve Rinella had an excellent op-ed in Friday’s New...
View ArticleThe Second Amendment really is about hunting, too
As Adam B noted here on DailyKos last November, this year, for the first time in seventy years, the United States Supreme Court will examine the meaning of the Second Amendment. The case stems a...
View ArticleRebuilding respect for the hunting and shooting tradition
This is my fourth diary on Daily Kos. A big thanks to all who have made me feel very comfortable in the community. When I told people I, as a gun owner, was going to start a diary on a progressive...
View ArticleThe NRA’s leaders don’t care about hunters and shooters
It’s a question I get all the time: What happened to the National Rifle Association? It’s a question that hunters ask all the time. First, there’s an important distinction. The problem is with the...
View ArticleAHSA at the Supreme Court, a unique approach to the DC gun ban case
Today, as promised, the American Hunters and Shooters Association (ASHA) filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief with the Supreme Court of the United States in the landmark Second Amendment case,...
View ArticleHunters unite to fight global warming. Where's the NRA?
Earlier this week, over 670 hunting and fishing organizations – including my organization, the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA) – signed a letter urging Congress to take strong action...
View ArticleWho’s the real “enemy in camouflage”?
As a hunter who is proud of the American hunting tradition there is no doubt in my mind that the senior leadership of the National Rifle Association has sold us out and become a front group for the...
View ArticleAnother attack on hunters from the leaders of the NRA
Last week, I asked who is the real enemy in camouflage? My answer was simple. It’s the leadership of the National Rifle Association. That post generated a great discussion here on DailyKos – and...
View ArticleA number of NRA Board Members sponsored a conference of global warming...
A couple weeks ago, I wrote a diary about the 670 hunting and fishing organizations that signed a letter to Congress urging action on climate change. My organization, the American Hunters and...
View ArticleTaking on poaching -- and NRA Board Member Don Young (R-AK) -- on Capitol Hill
BrownSox has a post up today on the political woes of Rep. Don Young. He’s got some real problems. I had my own encounter with Young last week that tells a lot about the kind of guy he is. Last...
View ArticleAHSA on target on the Second Amendment
I know most people are preoccupied by the presidential campaign – and rightly so. However, there was a very important Second Amendment case argued before the Supreme Court this week. The case,...
View ArticleHunters and Shooters support Obama: He "gets it"
Today, as President of the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA), I announced our endorsement of Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States....
View ArticleVote for gun confiscation divides Obama and Clinton. She was wrong.
A couple weeks ago, on behalf of the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA), I endorsed Barack Obama for President. I explained in that endorsement that on the issue of firearms, Obama "gets...
View ArticleVindication for Hunters and Shooters at the Supreme Court
Today, the Supreme Court found that the Second Amendment of the Constitution does guarantee the individual right to keep and bear arms. This is a critically important decision for all of us who...
View ArticleObama is on the right side of the real gun issues in 2008
Earlier this year, on behalf of the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA), I endorsed Barack Obama for President. My message was simple: He gets it. And, the NRA doesn't. See, contrary to...
View ArticleOn Obama, NRA members aren't buying the NRA's tired old spin
Sure, the leaders of he National Rifle Association (NRA) are going to spend $40 million dollars of their members’ money in a campaign against Senator Barack Obama. But, we may have reached a tipping...
View ArticleTime for the NRA leaders to stop lying about Obama
Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer is right: As for Obama, Schweitzer said, "He ain't going to take your gun away. He ain't ever going to take your gun away." Obama doesn’t want to take your gun away....
View ArticleObama won't take your guns. Don't let the NRA tell you he will.
Over the past weeks and months, I’ve spent a lot of time talking to fellow hunters and shooters about Barack Obama, his positions on guns and his views about conservation, global warming and public...
View ArticleI'm on the air with a radio ad for Obama
This week, I’m featured in a radio ad for Barack Obama. Politico and ABC News have given coverage to the ad, which is running in battleground states across the country. It’s important for me to add...
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