Got me, bodad. I keep the permit up for two reasons: first, my wife's an attorney and in the past she's worked with various security forces investigating illegal drug activity (crack, actually) and second, since I have firearms in the house it forces me to periodically brush up on firearms safety. And no, I'm not getting rid of my guns. They are locked up, with trigger locks, inside a "gun safe" locker. Ammunition, such as I have, is locked away elsewhere. There are no children here, and any that visit will have had classes in firearms safety.

I have hunted in the past and wouldn't mind doing it again. I also enjoy TARGET shooting, both cartridge and muzzleloader. On a range, not out in the hills blasting away. I'm far, far more Olympics than Rambo -- for one thing, I can't afford the bullets Rambo types blast the countryside with!

I do NOT live in an urban area -- the town here has 50,000 people and is one of the biggest in the STATE. Idaho has 1 person for every 69 acres -- it's rural, with a vengance in some places. In fact, even this town is considered to be a "rural area."

And I kinda like it this way.

(And yes, I've been to London, Dublin, Paris, Cork, New York, DC, LA, 'Frisco, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, Denver, Toronto, Seoul, Tokyo, Quebec, Montreal, Vancouver and other such places. In fact, I'm heading out to DC again at the end of July. But I won't take weapons.)