Does anyone remember a prominent outdoorsman...

[Jerry442]

...and prolific writer who wrote a review completely panning assault-style weapons for sporting uses and whose career subsequently tanked?

Who was that?

On edit: What would really be cool would be a link to the article, but it was probably scrubbed off the 'Net a while back.

[PoliticAverse]

1. I believe you are referring to this person...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Zumbo

Archive of his article on the issue:
http://razoreye.net/mirror/zumbo/zumbo_assault_rifles.html

[Jerry442]

3. That would be him. TYVM. NT

[Doc_Technical]

2. Barry Goldwater on semi-automatic firearms

https://www.scribd.com/doc/83437962/Today-s-GOP-vs-Barry-Goldwater-on-Gun-Control-Second-Amendment-Rights

[Paladin]

4. Zumbo spoke truth to power and ended up paying for it, big-time.

I agreed with his opinions on assault rifles then, and I agree with him to this day. People aren't buying AR-15's for healthy sporting purposes, they're buying them because they're military-styled weapons designed to kill multiple human beings. Such firearms contribute to a really malignant, childishly-violent fantasy life---check out the on-line sites devoted to AR-15's and AK-47's, or just look at the daily droppings in DU's Gun Control & RKBA group for confirmation of this. And whatever conciliatory remarks you now see from Gun Enthusiasts, just keep in mind that they're in response to a black psychotic killing a group of white policemen---the gun militants had a whole different attitude for the multiple incidents of white psychotics slaughtering innocents with their precious black guns.