
The Greatest Sporting Goods 
Store in the World 
Madison Avenue and 
Forty-Fifth Street 
At the Head of 
The Trail 


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The Great Divide, between city and 
wilderness, shore and mountain, trail and 
boulevard. 
New York’s most interesting lookout 
to the visitor—the Adirondack log cabin 
on the Abercrombie & Fitch roof. 
A trout pool at the doorstep—and in 
the building beneath, a sportsman’s trea- 
sure house—a gold mine for men and 
women, boys and girls, whose hearts re- 
spond to the call of adventure. 
Those from out of town are extended 
a particularly cordial invitation to visit 
The Greatest Sporting Goods Store in 
the World—not necessarily to buy, but to 
look, and enjoy its hospitality. 
Write for Booklet 
“‘Sporting Extras’’ 
dbercrombie 
& Fitch Co- 
EZRA H. FITCH, President 
Madison Avenue and 45th Sireet 
New York 
‘‘Where the Blazed Trail 
Crosses the Boulevard” 


In writing to 
Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 

Just nine minutes are required to convert a single-barreled shotgun into a 
“bandit gun” 
A Bandit’s Protective Law 
By CHAS. J. LISLE 
HE Constitution has no right to 
declare that “the right of the 
people to keep and bear arms 
shall not be infringed.” For we shall 
prohibit the keeping and bearing of 
every firearm that can be carried in 
the hands, and the manufacture and 
sale and use of every cartridge that 
can be fired in a hand arm. We shall 
make this an absolutely gun-less na- 
tion! 
That is the real effect of the anti- 
pistol bill now before Congress. For 
any arm that can be carried in two 
hands, can be cut down to be carried 
in one hand; in short, can be made into 
a pistol under the proposed law. The 
writer has seen 45-70 rifles made into 
pistols; he has a 10-gauge double gun 
so remodeled; and here are the photos 
of a 12-gauge single shotgun that was 
cut down into a pistol in exactly 9 min- 
utes time, with no other tools than a 
10 cent file and a jack knife. Every 
gun is a potential pistol; every car- 
tridge is potential pistol ammunition. 
To make the law effective, everything 
that shoots must be prohibited. 
This formidable 
weapon is slight- 
ly larger than 
the service arm 
and is easily 
concealed 
It will identify you. 
Any law is a fool law that can not 
be equally enforced. This law is of 
such character, as these illustrations 
show. There are more than a million 
single-barrel shotguns like this in the 
country; under the proposed law they 
would be exempt—until the grinning 
bandit got to work on them with his 
file and pocketknife. The law-abiding 
citizen, accepting the written law as a 
moral obligation, would surrender his 
pocket arms, and would NOT remake 
his long guns; the bandit would re- 
model his, and then have full run of 
wherever he wanted to go. The law 
would enforce itself against the lawful 
citizen; it would not touch a feather of 
the joyful thug. 
HE thug would buy “sporting” am- 
munition for these sawed-off arms. 
The law would be made exactly to his 
order, for it would stop the lawful citi- 
zen from owning anything to counter- 
act his activities. A bandit-made law! 
A rapists’ enactment! A _ statute to 
promote the firebug and the hold-up 
and the burglar and the Peeping Tom! 

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