This column doesn’t concern handguns. It’s about one three-year old girl and hundreds of decent, gun owning, human beings. Our leftist news media loves to portray we “gun people” — as I prefer to call us — as nut cases. At best we’re considered louts who go around shooting up road signs while swigging beer. At worse, the public in general is told we’re dangerous brutes just looking to shoot somebody.

Let me give you an example of what real “gun people” are like. A company familiar with all Black Powder Cartridge Rifle (BPCR) shooters is Montana Vintage Arms. They are manufacturers of high quality sights and telescopes used on such rifles. An employee there, Lars Waldeisen, has a beautiful daughter named Lucy. During her three-year checkup Lucy was found to have a rare form of cancer. Treatment for Lucy’s ailment has required traveling from Montana to places as distant as New York City. Of course that means considerable expense for the entire family.

In the spring of 2009, Montana Vintage Arms, together with Shiloh Rifle Manufacturing organized a benefit raffle. The prize consisted of one of Shiloh’s beautiful recreations of a Sharps Model 1874 .45-70 rifle fitted with both Montana Vintage Arms’ target grade metallic sights and one of their telescopes. Along with it came a custom wooden box for the telescope by Kansas woodworker Harold Forcum and a bullet mould by Montana custom maker Steve Brooks. The most modest prize was a hardbound copy of my book Shooting Buffalo Rifles. Retail value of the prizes was put at $4,500.

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