FWIW, my parrothead commo was part of a local effort to make life a little harder for the media.
I shoot CMP. Big deal. Many of us do.
Some of my fellow shooters can be pretty hard headed and a bit stupid.
Shortly after OKC, the local media was coming to matches for rapid fire string footage. Instead of wearing jeans and a shirt, a lot of the guys were wearing BDUs and playing right into the hands of the media.
BDUs? ARs? M14s?
OMG! It's a militia! Paramilitary training!!!
More than 1 local TV station played the angle that the CMP program was a cover for militia training, and one club came close to stopping the program because of bad media coverage.
Enter the parrothead cammo. Ain't no way in hell ABCD TV is going to sell the public that a guy shooting in an outfit like that is involved in a 'militia' training program.
What has happened to the word itself is a disgrace. One of the things I HATE about the media is that they tromp all over the 2nd Amendment, yet when they are even asked to, say, for example, hold a story back for a day or 2 to keep a foriegn enemy from getting useful information, the FIRST thing they do is hide behind the 1st Amendment.
There are times I would LOVE to destroy television transmitting towers.