Its illegal here to own all that

I have too many firearms and only one is a non-hunting firearm. My non-hunting gun is a Russian SKS that is original except for a contour scope I installed. I thought it would be a good hog gun but it is not accurate enough to hunt with. Everything else I have is hunting rifles and shotguns. I too have a Ruger Blackhawk .357 Magnum, mine is a 1967 "Three Screw" Blackhawk I bought it new to hunt hogs. It is a good brush gun that will take a hog down instantly. My Blackhawk has never had the safety “retrofit” so I always leave the chamber under the hammer empty.

I don't hunt as much as I use to. I do Dove hunt a few times a year and I kill as many deer as I can because they eat everything in my vegetable garden and my wife’s flowers. I give most all the deer away but if I kill a very small one I keep some of it for myself. The little ones are tender and better tasting than a big doe or buck. We do not have wild hogs here in Northeast Tennessee where I retired.

In my opinion guns and lack of control is a major problem for the U.S. The U.S. has more than10 times the homicides of other developed industrialized nations. Now people are wanting to “open carry”. I was in Texas last year and I saw dozens of people walking around with assault type weapons. That made me feel very unsafe. I stopped at a gas station and the clerk had a pistol on his hip in the open. I warned him a thief would see him as a threat and probably shoot him immediately. He said he didn't think about that.

I most often carry a concealed weapon. I would rather not but I feel the U.S. has become a dangerous armed camp.