The proposal of George Suggs, local sportsman, that automatic arms for the killing of game be put out of business in North Carolina has been endorsed by Frank C. Kugler, a tidewater sportsman and businessman. Kugler is active in road construction work in Beaufort County, where he accepts no salary but gives much of his time to the public interest. Like Suggs, who pitched in both the major leagues, Kugler is a former baseball player. “any good, red-blooded” sportsman will agree that the “damnable automatics” should go, he contends. To “get the legislature interested” is the object of hunters who declare game is being ruthlessly slaughtered in some parts of Eastern Carolina. Once the solons have become aroused there can be little active opposition to legislation to curb users of “pump” guns, they declare. It has been proposed that the Audubon Society interest itself in the matter. Many sportsmen have seconded the proposal advanced here. Suggs is a dealer in sporting goods who would “dump overboard” a considerable stock of automatics willingly could their use be legally restricted.
From the front page of The Daily Free Press, Kinston, N.C., Oct. 24, 1922
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