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UNFAIR FIREARMS AAW SHOOTING ETHICS 147
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wherebeprohibitedbylaw. Timeshavechanged,andtheHnesforpro- tection must be more tightly drawn.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Judge Orlady) has decided that the Pennsylvania law against the use of automatic guns in hunting is entirely constitutional, because every state has a right to say how its game may and may not be killed.
It is up to the American People to say now whether their wild life shall be slaughtered by machinery, or not.
If they are willing that it should be, then let us be consistent and say, —awaywithall"conservation!" Thegameconservatorscanendurea gameless and birdless continent quite as well as the average citizen can.
How They Work.—There are a few apologists for the automatic and pump guns who cheerfully say, "So long as the bag limit is observed, what difference does it make how the birds are killed?"
It is strange that a conscientious man should ask such a question, when the answer is apparent.
We reply, " The difference is that an automatic or pump gun will kill fully twice as many waterfowl as a double-barrel, ij not more; and it is highly undesirable that every gunner should get the bag limit of birds, or any