That depends on the game being hunted

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Yesterday, we talked about the bizarre lengths to which anti-gun politicians in Illinois are willing to go in indulging their hatred of America's armed citizenry. Anti-gun senators took bills, passed with broad bipartisan majorities in the House, to improve nuclear power plant safety, and to protect children from sexual predators, and gutted them, turning them into nearly unprecedentedly oppressive gun bans. One of the primary characters in these attacks is Senator Antonio Muñoz (a Chicago Democrat, of course).

During debate in the Senate Public Health Committee (in which every Democrat voted for these bans) Wednesday, Muñoz apparently thought he had just the rejoinder to put NRA lobbyist Todd Vandermyde in his place. From the Chicago Sun-Times:

"You don't hunt with a 50-caliber weapon, my friend," Munoz derisively told NRA lobbyist Todd Vandermyde before the panel voted for the weapons ban by a 6-4 vote.

First, Muñoz is dead wrong. Second, no serious Second Amendment scholarship argues that the Founding Fathers devoted 10% of the Bill of Rights to the sport of hunting (although with some creativity in defining "sport," there might be a case to be made).

The third response to Muñoz's little quip is to point out that when the game one is "hunting" is an oath-breaking aspiring tyrant, perhaps riding in an armored limousine, rifles chambered for the .50 BMG cartridge can be just the ticket.

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