Trego's Mountain Ear

I note that the Dem candidate for VP has been called a Fudd.  As I look at the pictures, there seems to be a distinct similarity.  In Montana, the Dems have fielded a candidate for governor who claims to be a firearms expert.  Two of the pictures below are campaign photographs.  One is Elmer Fudd.  There is a certain commonality to all.

The bald head and the shotgun do seem to help show the similarity to Elmer on both candidates – and yet a career with Kimber, and 24 years as a weekend warrior artilleryman should have given each man a bit of credibility on guns.

P. O. Ackley – called America’s Gunsmith – started the gunsmithing program at Trinidad State.  Ackley never accepted the classification as an expert.  If Ackley wouldn’t call himself a firearms expert, I surely won’t claim the title – though I did test a rifle I had rechambered in a test chamber Ackley built 30 years before I arrived at TSJC.

So what’s a Fudd?  The Urban Dictionary Urban Dictionary: Fudd definition is:

“Slang term for a “casual” gun owner; eg; a person who typically only owns guns for hunting or shotgun sports and does not truly believe in the true premise of the second amendment. These people also generally treat owners/users of so called “non sporting” firearms like handguns or semiautomatic rifles with unwarranted scorn or contempt.”

Reagan didn’t look like a Fudd in this picture, though the right hand ejection on an AR might be a bit hard for a lefty.