Bill we are not all nut jobs honest :-) for every sportsman I know it truly is a tool for hunting or protection. I own a lot ... mostly cause my family dies off and leaves them to me. I know a crap load about every one of them, I can repair cast my own bullets reload my own etc ... I really don't like them, I used them to hunt , target shoot and protect ... I also own several chain saws .. hate them also but they are tools that I use. Some people live and breathe these things and that is scary ... mostly only the people that should not have them .. Every serious hunter I know has them to hunt nothing more ... like when we talk about guitars.
I know of no hunter or sportsman that gets upset waiting 4 hours for clearance before taking their new shotgun home ... A gun show, if you are a felon, plop down the money and take it home we don't care ..