CS: Legal-gun trafficker sentenced
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's going on here does stink. For years now, gangsters in Liverpool have operated through so-called 'security firms.' In essence, this means that these firms supply bouncers for clubs and bars, often bars which have proliferated through the laundering of heroin money. The bouncers collect up to 750 per 'doorman' per week--if the bar doesn't belong to some gangster, or drugs trafficker. You can guess what happens if someone doesn't pay up. In addition, the bouncers make sure nobody brings drugs into the clubs and bars. They do this so that they can sell their own drugs on the premises. As for guns, although the judge/police accepted this was a one-off transaction by Haase, the use of guns has grown massively over the last ten years. There are underworld gun dealers who have supplied the weapons for many shootings in Merseyside connected with the drugs trade. A pistol is often included in a big drug deal as a sweetener--a bit like buying a bottle of wine for a valued business contact in legitimate commerce. And to quote the assistant chief constable of Merseyside, pistols are now status symbols for the younger, hot-headed scumbags involved in smack dealing. Barry Woodward Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01
CS: Pol-The march in March
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The move to ban hunting with hounds is purely about the perception of hunting as an elitist, upper-class pastime enjoyed by the well-off. If Mr Loweth got around a little more he would see that shooting live quarry is perceived in exactly the same way as hunting by the urban and suburban population. He will do himself no favours by boycotting the March. Barry Woodward -- I thought it was Stuart who was boycotting it? Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01
CS: Pol-LACS abuse
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've had a similar experience in Southport. It ended with passers by abusing me. I got my revenge by nipping along to the police station and telling them the antis were collecting money without a permit. I watched the bizzies close them down while I sipped my drink in the bar across the street. Wrong, yet satisfying. Barry Woodward Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01
CS: Misc-Manchester Gun Shops
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manchester gunshops--a bit of a desert in my experience, Jonathan. Spend some petrol money in Leeds, Halifax, etc. Barry Woodward. PS: Mind you, if you're into airweapons, Manchester Airguns used to be interesting Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01
CS: Pol-Kate Hoey
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did anyone follow up on recent posts and write to Tony and Kate Hoey about her interview in Sporting Gun? I did and got my replies this weekend. Tony's secretary said he had noted my views. I bet... I got a stereotype letter from Kate Hoey thanking me for my interest in the forthcoming Commonwealth Games. Actually, when I wrote, most of my comments were about her attitude to guns and hunting. I never mentioned the Games. Did anyone else do any better? Barry Woodward Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01
CS: Field-cooking squirrels
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike, Do them just like any rabbit recipe. For excample; soak the jointed pieces in a mixture of lemon juice and vinegar for an hour or two, then casseroile them with a little wine--red or white--and some onion, tomatoes, whatever you feel like. All done in about forty minutes and tastes surprisingly good. Barry Woodward Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01
CS: Field-shooting squirrels
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I didn't see a grey--apart from in Wales in the late fifties--until 1984. I'm talking about West Lancashire now and apparently they were common on the eastern side of the M6 for some years in the l970s. I live on the western side and since the mid-80s the numbers have taken off. So much so that there is a group called Red Alert which monitors the encroachment on one of the country's last sanctuaries for red squigs on the coast near Southport. I believe the red was protected under the Wildlife Act of 81 (82?). Barry W. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01
CS: Legal-New legal hurdles
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been asked by Lancashire Police to provide my membership card for variations. Barry Woodward Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01
CS: Misc-Shotguns/forensic
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone on the list help with a hypothetical situation for a fiction I'm working on? Someone is shot dead with an illeglly acquired shotgun with sawn-off barrels. The police get hold of the gun. Once the police put it through forensic tests, is it in anyway possible to link that gun with a former killing? I know it's easy with a rifled weapon, but what can be done with a shotgun? The way I see it any cartridges impounded with the gun could be linked forensically by batch number, plaswads, maybe shot. But I'm hazy on this. Any information or comment would be much appreciated. PS: The very first double 12 bore I saved up for when I was first married was a Baikal from Russia, imported by a Glasgow company. Twelve months after I sold it to a gun dealer,we returned from a holiday to experience the Liverpool police practically knocking my door down. My gun, sawn off, had been used to murder a pawnbroker during a robbery. The cops came in mob handed, producing the sawn off without any explanation and scaring the daylights out of me, my wife and young son. The forensic people had x-rayed the serial number of the Baikal, which criminals had tried to erase with acid. Having bought the gun new I was first on the list after inquiries at the importers. The police later told me that my gun, sold on by the RFD, had been stolen from the boot of a car and eventually ended up in the hands of an illegal armourer. He had rented it to the crims who murdered the pawnbroker. Not a nice experience, but my name was blackened for ages as during my absence on that holiday, the police had been to my two former addresses and even talked to local shopkeepers, barmen, newsagents, etc. For at least two years I got comments in the neighbourhood--as well as some hassle when I renewed my certificate in a neighbouring authority when we moved again. (I'd previously taken out a certificate in that area before I married and flogged my gun). Barry Woodward -- There's quite a lot of ways, comparison of firing pin indents on the primers, they can also determine what ammunition was used to shoot the victim, fire it through the gun and compare it ballistically, if it was close range they can compare the burns on the victim with burns obtained during testing and so on. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Misc-King's African Rifles
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Dad served as an engineer in North Africa during World War Two and had contact with the King's African Rifles. One night he drove a jeep back to the compound after a heavy night with, I think, some American troops. He used to swap stuff with the Yanks to get cigs and US rations. He fell out with the KAR guardsmen at the compound gate and another KAR soldier intervened and fired a shot into the radiatior grill of Dad's jeep. In the ensuing inquiry the man who fired the shot was found to be a certain big black guy-- called Idi Amin On another occasion he crashed a lorry into a car carrying King Farouk, which caused masses of trouble. No wonder he gave up drinking before he was twenty five! I don't know how true these stories are, I merely report them. Later in life he was more than a match for Alf Garnett! Barry Woodward Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Pol-Guardian attacks CA
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hear, hear, The Guardian is stuffed with antis. They feed on a hatred of all fieldsports and distorted reporting--on anything remotely individual and traditional-- is par for their course. Boycott it and wreck its pathetic circulation. Barry Woodward (ex-journalist, now in TV). Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Misc-drugs
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't dope (marijuana, cannabis, grass) banned in the USA in 1937 within twelve weeks because Philip Morris, the ciggie makers,and others had formed a cartel and started market research to market 'reefers' nationwide? As Jonathan has suggested, the Government's action was based on the fact that dope was used a lot by black people and there was a general perception that marijuana caused sexual promiscuity among otherwise chaste, save it for marriage-type, Bible Belt white girls. I've read this at some time, but I don't recall where. Sory, it's way off topic, but--if true-- it does seem to have been the knee-jerk stuff we all know about. Barry W. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Misc-Ejection patterns
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The 'Hollywood goon' 90 degree style of pistol shooting irritates the hell out of me. I was delighted the other night when a character in a film on Sky took the mickey out of the technique. Just wish I could remember the name of the film. Barry Woodward Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Misc-Police Corruption
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Would Ig like to give us examples of the five per cent of certificate holders to whom he objects? Barry Woodward Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Field-how to deal with roadkill
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I worked in Liverpool I was once almost lynched for necking a feral pigeon hit by a taxi. The bird had severe injuries and when I approached af group of concerned onlookers they were all arguing over who'd contact the RSPCA, or vet.No-one touched the bird. I picked it up, examined it, broke its neck and put it in the gutter. Then had to hurry off back to the office with threats and abuse ringing in my ears. Barry Woodward Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Pol-Government response to Home Affairs Committee Report
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You said the Government's response to the HAC report might be unfavourable, but how could they push through any new laws in the forseeable future owing to lack pf Parliamentary time? Haven't I read somewhere that the Home Secretary has the power to make instant adjustments to the Firerams Acts off his own bat withour further reference to Parliament? Or was this power only ever discussed? Barry Woodward -- Well, the command paper will be unfavourable in large tracts, that is certain, but you're right, I doubt anything could be done for some time. The Home Secretary has the power under Section 1(4) of the 1988 Act to lay an order to ban any firearm that he considers to be particularly dangerous and that was not available in significant numbers prior to the 1988 Act. The HAC report suggested the Home Secretary consider whether or not long-barrelled revolvers are particularly dangerous or not. However, even an order like that would have to be laid before both Houses of Parliament, and my personal view is that it would be unlikely to pass without accompanying legislation because of the issues of compensation and so forth. The 1988 Act made no consideration of the ECHR, but now compensation would effectively _have_ to be paid. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Target-Olympics 10m Air Rifle Womens Results
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I watched this on Sky sports the other night. We were looking for a film to watch and I asked our company--two of them women--if I could just take a quick look at the coverage, to see if Britain had done anything. To my surprise they all watched the piece right throug --very impressed with 'how still they hold the guns.'!! Maybe shooting on telly could find an audience. Or maybe it looks better after a few drinks... Barry Woodward -- It would certainly be more interesting than endless repeats of old crappy American rubbish. They should rename Sky One the "Simpsons" channel. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Field-Midland Game Fair
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I got through to their office a short time ago. (2;45pm Thursday). It's all go apparently, but I guess lots of exhibitors and other participants will have a hard time getting there. Barry Woodward Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Pol-Dump the Pump
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For what it's worth, exactly what I believe, too. Today, Blair has realised that he is not a golden boy; that he can forget the polls and the politicial pundits. The guy is an authoritarian, leaning towards a fascist. This past few days he must've felt he has an uncertain future. When it comes to the Election, most people will attach blame for all this to him, not the farmers or the hauliers. My grown up children, thinking only of themselves, today attacked me for supporting the fuel blockades. I told them that if that continue to think only of themselves, the likes of Blair and Brown, will treat them like slaves when they're my age. My wife told them they have grown up not knowing of the three-day week, telly off at ten at night, the interference in their lives of national action. She's right. Until the young people of today are politicised, the sleazy conmen of modern politics will continue to have their way. (By the way, interesting stuff in the Sunday papers about Blair and Brown and gay MAFF Minister Nick Brown and his part in the jealousies and quarrels between Gordon Brown and Blair and Mo Mowlam. What a buggers' muddle! I'm, sure Tony is an Oscar Wilde--ie, but married with children.) Barry Woodward -- Well I'm not that old and I can remember the power cuts in 1973. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Pol-Airgun Misuse
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe this guy was telling me 'porkies,' but last week I was talking on the phone to an RFD who lives hundreds of miles away from me. He told me that he undertakes occasional work for the local plod and heard that orders had come down on high from the Home Office (or ACPO) to get as many recorded incidents of airgun misuse as possible, following the HAC report and its recommendations on air weapons. In his area, coppers had been confiscating air rifles from lads on the grounds they they were over 12ft lbs. To be awkward this RFD had chrono-ed the airguns and those he found over-limit, he had shortened the springs to bring them into legal power limits--before handing them back saying the police were wrong. I had to laugh. He also claimed thgat in his home neighbourhood, the residents, largely older people, had been plagued by groups of glue-sniffing teenagers and rowdies. Repeated calls to the police to get them shifted had met with apathy from the police. The RFD waited his opportunity and when he spotted a gang of kids causing trouble phoned the police anonymously. He said one of the boys had an air rifle. He lives in a relatively small remote town, but within ten minutes there were eight jam butty cars, including armed police, in attendance. Like I said, this might be bulls--t, but next time you see someone letting his dog crap on the pavement outside your house, why not give it a try...? Barry Woodward. -- I've already come to the conclusion a lot of people are doing this, you're angry with your ex or whatever so tell the police they've got a gun and the police will roust them. There was actually one of these on "coppers" or whatever it's called when the MoD police got a "tip" that someone had some ammunition and they went around to a flat and turned it upside down and found nothing. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Pol-Commonwealth Games
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think the video diary idea is good. Possibly it could be included in any evidence that goes before the European Court during these log-winded proceedings Barry Woodward Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Pol-Olympic shooters lobby for easing of handgun ban
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A demonstration in Manchester based on dumping large numbers of vehicles to cause traffic chaos to make contestants in other sports late for their events--or miss them all together. That's the way to get publicity. Barry Woodward Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Legal-Judge rules booby trap was not set up to kill
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm surprised this guy didn't say in his defence that it was a wad--not a paper pellet. Anyone who has used a muzzle-loading shotgun has, at times, used a ball of newspaper of lav paper as a wad. This would've backed up his case that the booby trap gun was to warn him of intruders. Barry Woodward, Lancashire. -- I think the judge accepted that it wasn't intended to seriously hurt anyone. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
