Respectable America does not want 
to encourage predatory crime; it does 
not wish to promote burglary, assas- 
sination, robbery, ravishment. The 
clause of the Constitution relating to the 
right to keep and bear arms has to do 
with every man’s right to protect his 
own home and be prepared to protect 
society as well. It was an honest man’s 
law; it is so to-day as much as it was 
in the colonial days. To put aside the 
means of protecting the home, and 
trust to the tender mercies of the bandit 
and the brute who knows that he him- 
self is armed and that his victims are 
not, is to be in league with the crooks 
themselves; the unpaid partner of the 
assassin and thief and firebug. 
Your congressman will pass the laws 
you want passed. Tell him, if he does 
not know, just where this law must 
lead if it is to be effective—to a na- 
tion without a single legal firearm in 
army, store or home, and with a mil- 
lion thugs praying obscene prayers that 
it may pass and give them their har- 
vest. There are 20,000,000 farm women 
and girls in isolated homes in America. 
Tell your Congressman to put his own 
wife and daughter out.in similar ex- 
posed homes, with the legal sign “We 
are unprotected—come and help your- 
selves!”—and watch him get the point! 
Write to him to kill this Benevolent 
and Protective Murderers’ and Rapists’ 
Law before it passes, as he would kill 
it after it had devastated his own 
home! 
English Trap Shots Improve 
AM H. SHARMAN, of Salt Lake 
City, Utah, has been touring Eu- 
rope before shooting with the United 
States team at the Olympic Games for 
the trap shooting championship of the 
world and in a letter written from 
London on May 24th to Mr. L. P. Smith 
of the Ithaca Gun Company, Mr. Shar- 
man says the English have improved 
wonderfully in their shooting and the 
American team will not have a walk- 
away as in previous years. 
Additional Provisions 
Sonny Boy Fishing Contest 
a eOY GH an oversight, part of the 
regulations governing the Sonny 
Boy Fishing Contest for 1924 were 
omitted in the July number. They are 
as follows: 
Prizes are to be awarded for the 
largest fish taken in each class. In 
the event that two or more of the con- 
testants are tied for any of the prizes, 
each will receive the prize tied for. 
Contest closes December 31, 1924. 
EDITOR, 
Sonny Boy Fishing Contest. 
The Glare-Proof 
Shot Gun 
No chance of a dazzling glare spoiling your aim. 
Sight along a glare-proof, finely matted top rib that 
extends full length of the barrel. 
This top rib extends above the level of the barrel 
and it not only subdues glare, but greatly accelerates 
quickness of aim. Barrel and lug of high carbon 
steel forged in one piece—a full choke, close, hard- 
shooting gun. 
Iver Johnson Champion 
Single Barrel Shot Gun 
ThelverJohnson Champion Matted Top RibShot Gun 
is light in weight, well balanced, and easy handling, 
and is made in 12, 16, and 20 gauges, with different 
lengths of barrels, and in plain shell extractor or 
automatic shell ejector. Real black walnut stock and 
trap style fancy fore-end finely checkered. Full pistol 
grip and genuine hard rubber cap and butt plate. 
Send for Free Booklets 
Catalog“‘A” illustrates and describes the Iver Johnson 
Champion Matted Top Rib Shot Gun, and other 
single barrel guns, including the .410. Also the Iver 
Johnson Hammerless Double Barrel Shot Guns and 
the famous Iver Johnson “Hammer the Hammer’ 
Safety Revolvers. 
Catalog “B” illustrates and describes Iver Johnson 
Bicycles for men, women, boys and girls—also 
Velocipedes for little children. 
IVER JOHNSON’S ARMS & CYCLE WORKS 
41 River Street, Fitchburg, Mass. 
New York: 151 Chambers St. 

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