Feared Colorado Boycott Over Gun Laws Is a Bust

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Feared Colorado Boycott Over Gun Laws Is a Bust

DENVER November 25, 2013 (AP)

A boycott by hunters opposed to Colorado's new laws meant to curtail gun violence has failed to materialize.

The state's primary big game hunting seasons have closed with no trace of the boycott gun-rights advocates had warned about, The Denver Post reported Monday ( http://bit.ly/1c42Nyv ).

"Through the main big game seasons, we were up about 5,000 licenses over last year at this time," said Randy Hampton, spokesman for Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

Final numbers won't be available until next year, but the initial figures are a positive sign for Colorado's $1.8 billion hunting and fishing industry.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/feared-colorado-boycott-gun-laws-bust-21003581

[NYC_SKP]

1. Boycott? Do they mean a facebook page with 349 likes and the rantings of a talk show host?

Because that's all I can find about a reported boycott.

https://www.facebook.com/BoycottColoradoForAnti2ndAmendmentLaws

I hadn't read anything at all about it until this OP.

Nobody's going to boycott hunting season, not this long after the passage of the legislation.

It looks like business is as good as ever for gun shops and sellers of licenses.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

3. Well there's this story...

...from fox news:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/27/hunters-threaten-to-boycott-colorado-after-passage-recent-gun-laws/

...and we all take fox very seriously around here...


(when it suits)

[earthside]

2. No surprise really.

This boycott's failure really shouldn't come as much of a surprise to anyone. It was 'called' by the gun radicals just trying to stir-up some reaction to the Colorado legislature's passage of very reasonable and pretty mild gun safety laws.

Of course, the gun radicals are still trying to bully their way over the wishes of most Colorado citizens.

For instance, as we have witnessed here in Arvada, Colorado (where I live), the cadre trying to recall our Democratic state senator over her gun safety votes are by far mostly sad little men who grasp at some degree of self-worth by acting and talking a lot about guns (and wear a lot of camo ... that seems to be very important to them, too).

Serious, mature adults who are sportsmen and sportswomen and intelligent, rational gun collectors are not falling for the pathetic political wail that "they are going to take our guns away".

The hunting boycott of Colorado is a 'bust' because no non-criminal's gun is, was or will be taken away; and no hunter isn't going to or didn't get her or his deer because they only had a fifteen round magazine.

The gun radicals are 90 percent Tea Party political extremists as was evidenced here in Arvada this weekend when it was just Republican politicians, candidates and their minions who 'rallied' to support the 'recall' of state senator Evie Hudak. We can hope that this news of the hunting boycott's failure and the truth about the real reasons for the recall will mean that a minority of paranoid angry folks with low self-esteem won't be able to overthrow the results of the general election we had just last year.

Ten days left for the 'recallers' to get their 19,000 signatures.
Recall is Radical, Angry, Pointless

[gejohnston]

4. just a few things

The hunting boycott of Colorado is a 'bust' because no non-criminal's gun is, was or will be taken away

there actually is an extreme element of the gun control movement that would love to do just that.

no hunter isn't going to or didn't get her or his deer because they only had a fifteen round magazine.

I don't know about Colorado, but Wyoming and Florida limit box magazines to five round magazines for hunting. That is why some AR type rifles like the Remington R25 is shipped with a four round magazine.

The blogger has a nice emotional rant, but he has a long way to go before he becomes a serious writer.

[DonP]

5. Uh, yeah, sure - Hudak just resigned rather face the recall

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_24611818/faced-recall-sen-evie-hudak-resign-her-seat

I guess she doesn't know Colorado politics nearly as well as you think you do. Perhaps you should contact her and explain that she has no real risk at all to worry about from that handful of malcontents.