I'm a gun guy, always have been

I’m a gun guy. Always have been. It’s how I was raised.

We even had a couple of military weapons in the house when I was a kid – a Civil War era Tower musket, and an Arisaka rifle Dad brought back from the Philippines at the end of WWII. They were a far cry from modern military firearms, but even as a kid I understood their purpose.

They were part of a modest collection of firearms my father had picked up over the years. All the rest were either shotguns or .22s we used for hunting and target shooting.

Now the line between military arms and sporting arms is blurred. Remington advertises its as...