After the Orlando nightclub shooting, Democrats criticized the routine sale of the type of semiautomatic rifle used by Omar Mateen. Hillary Clinton called them “weapons of war.” Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said that if you used a gun like the AR-15 — or the similar Sig Sauer used in Orlando — to go hunting “you should stick to fishing.” But many gun owners say they use semiautomatic rifles to hunt regularly. In interviews with TIME, leaders of 15 state shooting groups said semiautomatic rifles are popular with hunters in their states.