Zumbo damage control begins

I remember reading that Zumbo was going to shoot an AR15 with Nugent but I didn't figure we'd see it until next seasons shows but they rushed it to air and I just finished watching it, you could definately tell that Zumbo was uncomfortable and humiliated by what he had said and done to the shooting sports. I guess only he knows if he is really sorry for what he said or if he is just sorry for the money he has lost.

What show was it on??

Sorry or not, he stomped his own crank with a size 14 NAZI jackboot and is now scrambling to save his career. He bit the hands that fed him and if he cared about our freedom's any at all he would vanish from the scene.
Hanging out with Ted Nugent on TV only gives more ammunition to the anti's. Ted's not exactly the poster child we need either.

It's on Ted's 'Spirit of the Wild'. I'm watchin' it right now as Ted is cluing him in.

Whatever you think of Ted, he tells it like it is, no sugar coating and I prefer that over political correctness everyday.

Jim Zumbo is an arrogant SOB and isn't worthy enough to be on the same TV set as my man Nuge.

Ted Nugent is exactly what we need! No more sugar coating it to the liberals!!!

Uncle Ted is my hero, but not even he can help Zumbo save face.

Uncle Ted He's quite the boy. At first look he's quite radical, but he speaks the truth and is very passionate about his belifes. I have to wonder if it was a bunch of "uncle Ted's" that threw the Boston Tea Party, wrote and signed the Constitution.

Ted's my hero--because of Shemane.

OOOOOOOhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!

How could I forget about her!? One of best looking ladies to hunt! Hopefully Nuge will have her on more...

ok can someone give us the short version of what was said? Haven't seen that tv show on any channel in a long long time.

Please fill me in on what was said

Brian

The following was reported by the Outdoor Wire on Friday March 30, 2007.

In February, hunter and outdoorsman Jim Zumbo enraged shooters across the United States with comments appearing his now-discontinued blog on Outdoor Life. Since that fateful blog, Zumbo's professional life has changed - profoundly. A marquee career in hunting has effectively been reduced to nothingness. Television sponsors bolted, contracts were cancelled and a former front-man for hunting found himself the object of hatred and ridicule by shooters who felt betrayed by his comments.

Zumbo hasn't tried to shift the blame to anyone else. In fact, he pledged to go on the offensive to fight HR 1022, the newly introduced and significantly broadened, assault weapons ban.

Last week, Michigan Senator Carl Levin, a staunch opponent of firearms, used Zumbo's remarks to attack firearms owners, reading portions into the Congressional Record. Zumbo has fired back, sending an open letter to the United States Senate that responds to Levin's action and makes it plain that Zumbo isn't letting that action pass.

Last night, Zumbo provided us a copy of his response to Senator Levin. Today, in the sense of fairness, we offer it in its entirety - without comment.

An Open Letter to the United States Senate

Dear Honorable Ladies and Gentlemen:

It recently came to my attention that one of your colleagues, Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, has chosen to attack firearms owners using remarks I wrote in mid-February as his launch pad. As you probably know, Sen. Levin has been making anti-gun speeches every week for the past eight years because of a promise he made to the Economic Club of Detroit in May 1999.

Mr. Levin has an agenda, and he should have spoken to me before using my name in one of his speeches, especially since his remarks were entered into the Congressional Record. I would like my remarks here entered into the Congressional Record as well.

Sen. Levin is only one of 16 members of the Senate to vote against the Vitter Amendment to the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act. This amendment prohibits the confiscation of a privately-owned firearm during an emergency or major disaster when possession of that gun is not prohibited under state or federal law.

Eighty-four senators voted for that amendment, inspired by the egregious confiscation of firearms from the citizens of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina in the summer of 2005. Those seizures, you will recall, led the Second Amendment Foundation and National Rifle Association to join in a landmark civil rights lawsuit in federal court that brought the confiscations to an abrupt end.

The taking of private property without warrant or probable cause - even firearms - was considered an outrage by millions of American citizens, and yet Sen. Levin joined 15 of his colleagues in voting against this measure. It is no small wonder that Sen. Levin gets an "F" rating from gun rights organizations. He would have American citizens disarmed and left defenseless at a time when they need their firearms the most, when social order collapses into anarchy and protecting one's self and one's family is not simply a right and responsibility, it becomes a necessity.

That in mind, Sen. Levin must know that almost immediately after I wrote those remarks, I recanted and apologized to the millions of Americans who lawfully and responsibly own, compete with and hunt with semi-automatic rifles. I took a "crash course" on these firearms and visited with my good friend Ted Nugent on his ranch in Texas, where I personally shot an AR-15 and educated myself with these firearms.

Some of us learn from our mistakes, others keep making them. Legislation to which Sen. Levin alluded, HR 1022, would renew the ban on so-called "assault weapons," and dangerously expand it to encompass far more perfectly legal firearms. For the Congress of the United States to even consider such legislation is an affront to every law-abiding firearms owner in this country.

This legislation that Sen. Levin appears to endorse is written so broadly as outlaw not only firearms, but accessories, including a folding stock for a Ruger rifle. As I understand the language of this bill, it could ultimately take away my timeworn and cherished hunting rifles and shotguns - firearms I hope to one day pass on to my grandchildren - as well as millions of identical and similar firearms owned by other American citizens.

It is clear to me that the supporters of this legislation don't want to stop criminals. They want to invent new ones out of people like me, and many of you, and your constituents, friends, neighbors and members of your families. They will do anything they can, go to any extremes they believe necessary, to make it impossible for more and more American citizens to legally own any firearm.

In his final paragraph, Senator Levin misrepresents what I said. I never spoke in favor of a general assault weapons ban. Again, I immediately apologized for my blog statement that was exclusively directed toward hunting and not gun ownership.

I will not allow my name to be associated with this kind of attack on the Second Amendment rights of my fellow citizens.

A few weeks ago, in a letter to Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, I promised to educate my fellow hunters about this insidious legislation "even if I have to visit every hunting camp and climb into every duck blind and deer stand in this country to get it done."

I will amend that to add that I will bring my effort to Capitol Hill if necessary, even if I have to knock on every door and camp in every office of the United States Senate. In promoting this ban, the Hon. Carl Levin does not speak for me, or anybody I know.

Sincerely,
James Zumbo
Cody, Wyoming

One small step in the right direction, maybe a giant leap down the road a ways. But, it does show how a misinformed statement of any kind can be used by someone in a manner not even addressed by that statement in the first place. I get so friggin' peeved by anti-whatevers who take a stand on things of which they have no knowledge whatsoever. Aaaaaaaaaargh!!!

As for what they talked about on Ted's show, the gist of it was how you can't pit one gun owner against another just 'cause his gun looks or works different than yours. We all have to stick together. It's like the anit-hunters who try to pit hounders against baiters, or spot-and-stalkers against callers or drivers. We can't let it happen, there's room enough for all. Shoot on, Rod.

I agree and as handgun hunters we are probably more in the spotlight than any of the other interest groups since many can't even conceive what a hunting handgun is.