I will be extra sorry if they ban pump-action rifles. Those Browning and Remington pumps in the larger calibres make damned-good sambar rifles. A ban on large magazines would be understandable, perhaps.

If it comes to them being moved to the C category, hunters with established bona fides should be given access to help keep down the growing deer population.

I'm sorry, too, about the .470 business, Alan. That verges on crazy but then WA, a state possibly bigger than Texas and Alaska put together, has long had a strange attitude to guns. If only there was a bit more big game wandering around, they might have been more reasonable.

- Paul