NRA represents gun manufacturers — period

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26. Most states that allow semiautomatic rifles to be used for hunting game such a deer ...

limit the size of the magazine to five rounds. I believe that in some states you can use a higher capacity magazine while hunting pests such as feral hogs.

I'm not a hunter but I have listened to many discuss their sport. Obviously the first shot is the most important but if a hunter does not drop his game with his first shot there may be some value to to rapid follow up shot or possibly two.

I understand NRA opposition to using the Terrorist Watch List to determine if a person should be allowed to buy a firearm. If it were an accurate list the NRA might have a different view. However even the New York Times has problems with the list.

Editorial
Antiterror Measures at Home
Published: October 1, 2011

One of the bitter lessons of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was the need for better coordination and sharing of intelligence among the nation’s security agencies, to flag dangerous people entering the country. But there were also well-founded concerns about how well that system was working, and whether it was being abused.

Ten years later, files released by the F.B.I. under the Freedom of Information Act show that the government’s bloated terrorist watch list remains a flawed security tool in need of greater transparency and accountability. There are longstanding concerns about implementation and accuracy, including the omission of names from the list that properly belong there. There also has been a persistent problem of flagging the wrong people — including an 8-year-old and at least one senator — who then have serious trouble getting their names removed.

The 91 pages of newly disclosed files, described by The Times’s Charlie Savage last week, included a December 2010 memorandum to F.B.I. field offices revealing that even a not-guilty verdict may not always be enough to get someone off the list, if agents retain “reasonable suspicion” that the person might have ties to terrorism.

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But the unwieldy size of the database raises doubts. So does the disturbing absence of procedures to notify people who are on the watch list, or to give them a chance to see and challenge allegations against them. Inclusion on the watch list can keep people off planes, subject them to delays and extra invasive scrutiny at airports, traffic stops and border crossings, and prevent noncitizens from entering the country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/antiterror-measures-at-home.html?_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss