{"id":16949,"date":"2012-09-11T18:38:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T23:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=16949"},"modified":"2012-09-11T18:38:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T23:38:03","slug":"sporting-use-concept-shouldve-faded-from-our-vernacular-a-long-time-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/sporting-use-concept-shouldve-faded-from-our-vernacular-a-long-time-ago\/16949\/","title":{"rendered":"“Sporting Use” concept should’ve faded from our vernacular a long time ago!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A remark in an article about the MP7A1 in Recoil Magazine caused many reactions in the firearms community.<\/p><\/div>\n

Some people are asking, understandably, why I have been so involved in the Outcry against Recoil Magazine’s Editor’s Statements<\/a> over the last couple of days.<\/p>\n

I labored under & against the “Sporting Purpose” concept since the ’90s and have had to deal with several companies\/organizations over the last 15 years that were slow to move out from under that politically correct marketing approach. When I taped my first DVDs for the PDN Series distributed by the NRA in the mid-2000’s we weren’t allowed to use human shaped targets. There was no “Tactical” section at the first several SHOT Shows I attended. Just recently, another instructor and friend was uninvited from teaching at a shooting range that claims now to be for ‘sport shooting’ only. I’ve had trouble booking courses in certain areas for the same reasons.<\/p>\n

Especially in an election year and especially from a magazine that has a growing influence on younger shooters new to our community, I won’t tolerate the concept of guns needing a “sporting purpose” inside our own ranks… and Recoil Magazine has certainly put itself into the training community in a big way.<\/p>\n

Do I have a dog in this fight? Yes… and the dog is long in the tooth with a good memory and a perspective on how far we have come in recent history. Let’s not start slipping backwards.
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Some people are asking why Rob Pincus has been so involved in the Outcry against Recoil Magazine’s Editor’s Statements over the last couple of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2637],"class_list":["post-16949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rob-pincus","tag-recoil-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}