Great response JPK, Sooner or later I knew this would turn into a contest of whose dick is bigger. Amazing when the hunting whole world is under assault we still can find time to be picking fly shit out of the pepper. Boogles the mind.

If I may interject slightly here and again of topic as this thread is about a Gun............The targeted market (has anyone here talked to Tony as I have ??????) is for the upscale market on the eastern seaboard of the United States. If an Aussie wants to buy one I sure they can....:) Even if someone in the big timber of B.C. wanted to get one I would be all for it. More the merrier.

Now with the targeted market, this is an area of huge Whitetailed Deer over population. If you don't live there you think you know what it is like, trust me you don't know anything. You have no conception of what 700 deer to the acre looks like in winter, as was our farm land in Pa. That was a 70 acre alfafa field with a 40 acre woodlot strip. Do the math. This was a Game & Fish Commission survey. I moved to Wyominfg for a reason. Now complecate this with the fact that there is next to no access to hunting ground. So when deer are actually in a place where you can harvest them, you have damn well have the right tools to do the job. The best possible, rifle, scoped, muzzleloader or shotgun capable of 150yds. It is not about sport, or preserving the Roberts Rules of hunting or how noble Bambi's Dad was at the last second before I sunk my lance. It is about managment and numbers harvested by the best means possible. If your firearm looks good during it, all the better.
This part of the country needs these animals removed by any means in huge numbers. Most cities have/had paid shooters removing deer. Most areas have piles of available tags.

Now back to the gun and some legislation, as with any beaurcracy once something is in place it will not be "eased" up, it will only become more restrictive. They deemed the shotgun as the "safe" hunting tool, nonsense but it is the law. So along comes anyone with a brain who is going to push that law to the max. It is still a shotgun and it is still legal. This is the same game with inline muzzleloaders that so many seem to hate. I don't get it at all. Who cares, it is a means to an end. I Hunt with center fire scope rifles, some capable of moa groups at 800+ yards. It is the best tool for the job. Why would you want to restrict anybody's choice.

But then again this is just the opinion of a working class Peasant living in a break away colony of only 233 years aged. I am sure I can become snobbier as time goes by.