Dear Sir:
Regarding the use of the automatic shot-gun, would say that I am a member of two southern ducking clubs where these guns are used very extensively. I have seen a flock of ducks come into a blind where one, two, or even three of these guns were in use, and have seen as many as eleven shots poured into a single flock.
We have considerable poaching on one of these clubs, the territory being so extensive that it is impossible to prevent it. We own 60,000 acres, and these poachers, I am told, nearly all use the automatic guns. They frequently kill six or eight ducks out of one flock—first taking a raking shot on the water, and then getting in the balance of the magazine before the flock is out of range. In fact, some of them carry two guns, and are able to discharge a part of the second magazine into the same flock.
As I told you the other evening, I am not so much against the gun when in the hands of gentlemen and real sportsmen, but, on account of its terrible possibilities for market hunters, I believe that the only safe way is to abolish it entirely, and that the better class should be willing to give up this weapon as being the only means of putting a stop to this willful game slaughter.
Very truly yours,
Arthur Robinson.
HOW GENTLEMEN SPORTSMEN REGARD AUTOMATIC AND PUMP GUNS
Each one of the following organizations, chiefly clubs of gentlemen sportsmen, have adopted strong resolutions condemning the use of automatic guns in hunting, and either requesting or recommending the enactment of laws against their use:
| New York Zoological Society | Henry Fairfield Osborn, President |
| The Camp-Fire Club of America | Daniel C. Beard, President |
| Boone and Crockett Club | W. Austin Wadsworth, President |
| New York State Fish, Game and Forest League | 81 Clubs and Associations |
| New York Association for the Protection of Fish and Game | Alfred Wagstaff, President |
| Lewis and Clark Club | John M. Phillips, President |
| League of American Sportsmen | G.O. Shields, President |
| Wild Life Protective Association | W.T. Hornaday, President |
| WHERE AUTOMATIC GUNS ARE BARRED OUT BY LAW | |
| PENNSYLVANIA, 1907 | BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1911 |
| NEW JERSEY, 1912 | ONTARIO, 1907 |
| SASKATCHEWAN, 1906 | MANITOBA, 1909 |
| NEW BRUNSWICK, 190 | ALBERTA, 1907 |
| PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, 1906 | |
| SPORTSMEN'S CLUBS WHEREIN THEY ARE BARRED BY CODES OF ETHICS AND RULES | |
| Adirondack League Club, New York | Tobico Hunting Club, Kawkawlin, Mich. |
| Blooming Grove Park Hunting and Fishing Club, Penn. | Turtle Lake Club, Turtle Lake, Mich. |
| Greenwing Gun Club, Ottawa, Ill. | Au Sable Forest Farm Club, Mich. |
| Western Ducking Club, Detroit, Minn. | Wallace Ducking Club, Wild Fowl Bay, Mich. |
| Bolsa Chica Club, Los Angeles, Cal. | Lomita Club, Los Angeles, Cal. |
| Westminster Club, Los Angeles, Cal. | Golden West Club, Los Angeles, Cal. |
| Los Patos Club, Los Arigeles, Cal. | Recreation Club, Los Angeles, Cal. |
| Pocahontas Club, Va. | |
A MODEL BILL TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF AUTOMATIC AND REPEATING SHOT GUNS IN HUNTING