Oh Really!!??? A Three Shell Limit for Duck Hunting... WTF!!??

I just heard something on the Thom Hartman show that really, really, really bothered me.

A caller asked Mr. Hartman if he was familiar with the 3-shot duck plug rule. Mr. Hartman said that he didn't hunt so he wasn't familiar with hunting rules and regulations.

Apparently the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has the following rule:

No person shall take migratory game birds: With a shotgun capable of holding more than three shells, unless it is plugged with a one-piece filler, incapable of removal without disassembling the gun, so its total capacity does not exceed three shells.

In deference to waterfowl, hunters are only allowed three shots because the birds would probably be out of the kill-range of the shotgun blast after 3 shots.

I typed the following in my browser:  (Why is there a 3 shot duck plug rule?) 

and the following was one of the answers;

 ....in the land of the free we think conservation is a good thing. The 3 shot cap for sporting guns gives a little edge to the birds we hunt. Makes it sporting... rather than laying down a anti-aircraft barrage when a bird passes by.

So what does that this about us? Out of our concern over “sportsmanship” duck hunters can only take 3 shots before they have to reload. But a paranoid concern over protecting ourselves and our 2^nd amendment rights somehow makes it ok for some HUNTERS/SPORTSMEN/GUN ENTHUSIANTS to own a semi-automatic gun with a 110 round magazine.

I don’t know, but if you need more than 10 shots to protect yourself you should either: 1) get your eyes examined or 2) move to a safer neighborhood…

Call your representatives and urge them to back the Senate bill introduced by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and the House bill introduced by Rep Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) & Diana DeGette (D-Co) that would prohibit the manufacturing of high-capacity magazines.  

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Melt The Guns by XTC 1982   After thirty years, this song is still relevant. 

Or Lynard Skynyrd's "Saturday Night Special" from 1976
Hand guns are made for killin'  
Ain't no good for nothin' else 
And if you like your whiskey 
You might even shoot yourself 
So why don't we dump 'em people 
To the bottom of the sea 
Before some fool come around here 
Wanna shoot either you or me