propwash wrote:If you read Outdoor Life you may want to try Field and Stream instead...I know I will never buy this magazine again as long as Zumbo is still on their staff http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/sh ... ?t=171392

propwash wrote:The blog link is gone but the RFC thread is pretty hot and lists links to his sponsors...I have already asked them to pull their support for this bafoon. I shoot smallbore silhouette but I'm also quite fond of my AR for NRA highpower and service rifle...in addition to that I carry an AR in the field for the DOD and this idiot is basically calling me a terrorist...Remington pulled support a day or two ago and hopefully everyone else will let the door slam shut on him as well. I just didn't want this to go unnoticed by ya'll amidst all the Nascar shuffle a few days ago

There are career-ending mistakes that can be made in almost every line of work. In some careers (like firefighting), mistakes can be life ending instead of just career ending. For me at Microsoft, I have access to a lot of information and source code that would be a big enough deal that it would end my career in IT and security if I handed it out to the wrong people. Even if I apologized for it later, my career would deservedly be over because I didn't think through the consenquences of my actions before I did it. As sad as it would be for me, I would deserve it and I'd be a lesson for others in my industry when they were in the same position with the same type of choice.

Jim did pretty much that exact thing in his career. I do believe that his apology was sincere and that he realizes just how big a mistake that he has made. I also believe that it took a mindset of "I don't use that kind of rifle and I don't like the look of it so it should be banned!" for him to write what he did. I have no respect for anyone with an "I don't do it so no one else should be able to either" attitude, whether its related to guns or not. As sad as it is for Jim, he made his bed and now he has to lie in it. It could be worse. He could have forgotten to cap his rifle on a cape buffalo hunt.