CS: Target-prize money

2000-07-10 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I'm not too sure about this. Yes, bigger prize funds will probably see more People shooting but is this the way we want to see the sport going? I don't think I want to see this happening. I want shooting to be abou

CS: Pol-Anglers call for protection as protests mount

2000-07-25 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] We're laughing at these nutters now, but will we be in 20 years time I wonder? [...] Only if you let them get away with what they are getting away with now: telling crass lies, and not being held to stri

CS: Target-.308/7.62

2000-08-03 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your comment: [...] I've always wondered why cases from different makers have different case capacities, in fact Winchester Match brass (rare stuff) has a higher case capacity than their regular brass. Surely if t

CS: Misc-FHM Magazine

2000-08-03 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote in-part - [...] Writing brainless articles about equally brainless half naked totty, rather than slagging off the most Law abiding section of the community. [...] Having bee

CS: Pol-SA80s

2000-08-10 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The question is who cares whether a rifle can withstand having a 4 tonne truck driven over it. Does it matter? Steve. Hmmm, I'd like to see what kind of tyres that truck had on it. I mean, if they were the large tundra stompers lik

CS: Misc-Speed Cameras.

2000-08-20 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wait a minute here. Why should the police benefit from any activity in which they are *required* to participate? I mean, they were hired to enforce the law, were they not? It seems that a very important aspect is being ign

CS: Misc-Air? rifle

2000-08-22 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've seen a .22 blank-firing revolver which had been converted to fire live ammunition by boring out the chambers and using part of an air rifle barrel for the barrel. The problem with these conversions is you may also be the last per

CS: Pol-Expanding bullets UK police

2000-08-28 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's no doubt about it - if the Home Office claims to comply with the Hague Accords, but then sanctions JSP ammo for police which is designed to expand (even if in practice it doesn't), then it is in breach. It would be much better advise

CS: Legal-ECHR

2000-09-02 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The speed camera decision is being appealed apparently. Rememeber this case is not necessarily about speed cameras it is about the wording of the 'Notice of Intended Prosecution'. This means that the police may have to persue the vehicle

CS: Legal-ECHR

2000-09-08 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem with the argument on retrospective legislation is that even if we successfully argued it in court, the outcome would be meaningless. The guns have been destroyed, so the court would order proper compensation be paid. But we al

CS: Pol-US told its gun culture is based on myth

2000-09-13 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tsk, tsk, tsk. There is an old Chinese saying: "Lies travel around the world many times before truth has a chance to put her sandles on." According to William Weir, in his fine book, "A Well Regulated Mil

CS: Pol-US told its gun culture is based on myth

2000-09-15 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is the Jefferson quote, I was seeking and it is from "The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson." Page 205: Notes on Virginia "Every able-bodies freeman, between the ages of sixte

CS: Pol-US told its gun culture is based on myth

2000-09-19 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: George Steffner, INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --snip-- Even I did not realize that, until I read Federalist Paper No. 29. I, like everyone else, had assumed the "right of the people to keep and bear arms" was to facilitate

CS: Misc-US secretly pushed for EU

2000-09-20 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you read this yet? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000114832908976rtmo=V6sqDfJKatmo=gg ggg3JKpg=/et/00/9/19/wspy19.html -- Mmm, it is quite interesting. Just wondering if the CIA would agree with the aims now! Steve. Cyb

CS: Misc-Land Warrior

2000-09-27 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmm What happens when an enemy sniper or FOO captures one of these headsets that so nicely show you where all your own troops are? Tim : ) Steve, Tim, What's even so much more important, is that old saying about radio

CS: Pol-Wal-Mart Mk2

2000-10-02 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] That bit about the 1000 foot limit has been essentially null since that law was challenged. Congress had the temerity to reinstate it, but it hasn't been enforced with application by any fed that I am aware of -- seeing as how it is 's

CS: Misc-land warrior

2000-09-30 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Still, what happens if one of these headsets is captured? Then the enemy knows where the whole unit is in great detail. Even if the rest of the unit disengages the captured headset as soon as they find out, ev

CS: Misc-No bangs, no smoking guns

2000-10-17 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Times 17.10.00 No bangs, no smoking guns: victims just fell and bled SAM KILEY IN RAMALLAH ISRAELI snipers using specialised rifles fitted with silencers yesterday picked off high-profile Palestinian rioters i

CS: Pol-SAGBNI comments on HAC report

2000-10-15 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quote in-part by - "SA Mail", INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] (The point that Lord Cullen was addressing in his report was to get the police to identify those shooters who showed no real interest in the sport but who just 'wa

CS: Misc-William Wallace

2000-10-16 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I found an interesting page on William Wallace: http://www.highlanderweb.co.uk/wallace/index.html Some synopsized history that seems to neatly encapsulate that episode in history. ET Cybershooters website: http://www.cybersh

CS: Field-threat to shoots

2000-10-24 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anthony, You're right about the getting involved bit. Our Parish has had a number of vacancies over the last 6 years and I have written in on 3 occasions responding to Notice Boards requests from the PC for replacement PCouncillors. Well str

CS: Pol-Animal Rights protesters

2000-11-05 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Small protest at first hunt of season A small group of saboteurs has descended on a hunt meeting in West Kent and tried to disrupt it. Its always been a source of wonder to me as to why the hunts never picket the ALF homes or meeting places

CS: Misc-Armistice Day

2000-11-02 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] My uncle was involved as a Lieutenant in the Great War and told me that after the war it was suggested that a statue of a giant rat should be erected in Whitehall instead of the Cenotaph, since that was how so many soldiers ended up - blown

CS: Field-Calibres for Fallow

2000-11-02 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am no expert on stalking, but my instinctive advice is yes, go for premium bullets - a very minor part of your total expenditure, and how many deer are you likely to shoot anyway? Nosler Partitions or Speer Grand Slams, and as a cheaper alter

CS: Misc-The Day we shut down the City

2000-10-26 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] A friend who is interested in the possible effects of the renewal of the fuel protests, and political libertarianism (we need a shorter and more aesthetically pleasing word for that, apart from anarchism) sent me the full text of the article t

CS: Field-threat to shoots

2000-10-31 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] --snip-- Treason, BTW, includes impairing the defence of the Realm so persecuting rifle clubs would be covered. And Church of England clergy, who have an input in Parish Councils, are required to swear the Oath of Allegiance. Th

CS: Pol-armed robbers

2000-07-12 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Looking at the police helicopter video of the Rochdale car-chase shooting case, doubtless everyone said "bad guns!" and nobody said "bad cars!". Logically, they should have been saying "bad men!", sho

CS: Target-Televised target shooting

2000-07-12 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I don't think they need to be in the hundreds of thousands to encourage competitions, I think a few hundred quid would be more than enough, as opposed to the usual cheap plastic trophyG. The question is, where is

CS: Pol-toddlers find sawn-off shotgun

2000-07-14 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Manchester Evening News, 13 July 2000 Toddlers' game with a loaded gun by Neal Keeling Two toddlers wer discovered playing a deadly game after they found a loaded sawn-off shotgun dumped by criminals. --snip-- The moth

CS: Legal-ECHR

2000-07-18 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I just wish I could have seen the look on Charles Clarke's face when the Crown Court in Birmingham handed down the judgement that speed camera offences violate the right to remain silent. [...] Was

CS: Pol-checks and balances

2000-07-22 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Is the firearms legislation the single most important factor in casting your vote? [...] Interesting that you ask, Paul. It is *the* issue by which I judge any candidate to public office. They can

CS: Pol-checks and balances

2000-07-27 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I don't know about others, but I can't walk through a town without reflecting gloomily that the shaven-headed tattooed thug swigging lager across the street has a vote worth just as much as mine - and there are an awful lot

CS: Pol-checks and balances

2000-07-27 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Why not? This is the electronic/ digital/wired age.What is the internet for? [...] I certainly sounds okay on first look. But then, you neglect to consider the implications of decisions made in the h

CS: Legal-Anonymity

2000-08-14 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] --snip-- I also lost my pistols after the '97 fiasco. I fully agree that the police are useless at licensing, and that the attitudes of some in the ranks are hostile towards shooters. I personally will stick up for any legitimate shoo

CS: Pol-Straw may permit pistol shooting at Manchester games

2000-08-14 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] How the hell this woman get so much space in newspapers is beyond me. Rusty [...] Or, perhaps more to the point is, how is it that she can make so many off-the-wall statements without a wit's worth

CS: Legal-ECHR

2000-09-06 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] "No retrospective legislation" does that mean that those in possesion of handguns at the time of the ban could keep them and that the ban only applied to future aquisitions? I believe this is the way it works in the States, if youve g

CS: Legal-ECHR

2000-09-06 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know in Canada they always allow people to keep things when they ban them, but they didn't in Australia, the argument being the same as here - compensation was paid. Steve. Steve, Yeah, they do the same thing in the US t

CS: Legal-ECHR

2000-09-08 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah, they do the same thing in the US too, except that we have a 14th Amendment that essentially shuts that down: equal protection under the law. Which is to say that grandfathering is a divide and conquer scheme, as it set the cur

CS: Pol-book advert glamorises violence

2000-09-12 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Police chief in gang murder inquiry says book advert glamorises violence By Jason Bennetto, Crime Correspondent Independent, 11 September 2000 A Police commander investigating a spate of gang murders has lodged a

CS: Pol-Who to vote for

2000-09-13 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] In view of this we all decided to stay at home next polling day like last time. He must have been joking wasn't he? We never found out since he sloped off muttering something about us seeming naive. Well, are any of

CS: Target-FMJ v. HPBT

2000-09-20 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] --snip-- I don't think that propellant gasses actually melt bullets, if they did I think it would be a problem with military guns that do use boat tails with exposed cores. Jonathan Laws. -- But not with the flatbase bullets that Be

CS: Pol-neighbours protest Olympic medal winners range

2000-09-21 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got to strongly disagree with you Alex, if he took notice of his neighbours he wouldn't have that Gold medal. This is an urbanised country, the fact that the rest of the village are blaming it on "townies" indicates that it is not a

CS: Pol-NIMBY, Olympic medals, town v country

2000-09-24 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] As the townies are in the majority and growing, nothing will be achieved by puffing our chests and claiming rights to continue with a tradition. No one has the right to disturb others and we must accept some gradual erosion of the freedom of

CS: Pol-Small but perfectly formed

2000-09-26 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eight-year-old suspended over key-ring An eight-year-old schoolboy in the US has been suspended for taking a gun-shaped key-ring into class. Education chiefs in Green Bay, Wisconsin said the student was suspended for a day because he breached

CS: Misc-Bear Knuckle Fighting?

2000-09-26 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Man fights bear with bare fists A 64-year-old man punched a bear in the face after it attacked him, causing the animal to run off. Steve, Kenneth, That is highly unusual! Most black bear attacks that are known, usuall

CS: Pol-Anne Pearston

2000-09-24 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've spoken to several journalists over the years, from all the major papers and Channel 4 and the BBC, and as soon as you tell them what the truth actually is they fall into a coma and at best you stop them from running the story. Steve.

CS: Pol-Reuters on proposals

2000-10-08 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Britain Beefs Up Controls on Firearms LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said Wednesday it was tightening up firearms controls, including new restrictions on shotguns and raising the minimum age for owning a gun to 18. --snip-- ``Our firearm

CS: Field-how to deal with roadkill

2000-11-07 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you hit something, game or not, you must leave it (having dispatched it to prevent un-nessasary suffering of course), the guy behind may pick it up though as he didn't hit it. Its all to do with stopping people deliberately swerving to kill

Pol-Police close bad apple website

2000-11-17 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] In today's Nov 2, 2000, "Times" there is following by Stewart Tendler, Crime Correspondent ""A police force took legal action to close down a website on police corruption run by one of its own officers. Inspector Andrew

CS: Legal-Certificate Holders

2000-11-20 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] As there has been so much venom vented on this topic, I would love to know what views the contributors hold on the subject of who should not be allowed to hold a firearm or shotgun certificate. I take it that it is the general consensus that th

CS: Legal-Certificate Holders

2000-11-20 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve: it's simpler than even that. A scanner used with a CAD program, will produce almost anything within reason, depending upon the capabilities of the machinery (tolerances). Peter: Your first comment above is legion; t

CS: Misc-Police Corruption

2000-11-23 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] IG appears to be behaving in a way similar to the tobacco companies - looking at the evidence and flatly denying its existence. The tobacco companies deny reality for financial reasons and so do the police. --snip-- Stev

CS: Legal-ECHR ruling

2000-11-23 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] --snip-- The claim for loss of profits pursued in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) by MPC on behalf of the firerarms retailers and dealers had been declared inadmissible on the grounds that there was not a reasonable e

CS: Misc-Police Corruption

2000-11-23 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh, the good old days. When men could go shooting whilst high as a kite on opium, get pissed, carry a flick knife and screw a bird without being bankrupted by the government, then have a fight on the way home. All in the same day as well. Sheer b

CS: Misc-drugs

2000-11-26 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] ""Are you implying that we have a law regulating the MISUSE of drugs? --snip-- I've had friends use recreational drugs in the past, and I can tell you that this is a prime example of prohibition causing more problems

CS: Pol-law-abiding?

2000-11-26 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whatever happened to the idea of innocent until proven guilty? Puzzled a bit by this one. Who said anything about innocent or gulity? Semantics is not a favourite subject, but here we go. --snip-- IG, Go back and

CS: Misc-schizophrenia

2000-11-26 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's another good read. It might explain more than just a few things. http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a1ccaff6e8f.htm -- =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= Liberty: Live it . .

CS: Misc-drugs

2000-11-27 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Many addicts with access to legal diamorphine (or morphine, or cocaine, or whatever) have lived useful, productive, happy lives without a great deal of damage to themselves and with absolutely none to society. My guess is that history

CS: Legal-United Airline employee convicted of gun thefts

2000-11-29 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] United Airlines Employee Sentenced for Theft of U.S. Mail And Sale Of Stolen Guns, Reports U.S. Attorney --snip-- Let me get this straight, some poor guy in Tallahassee gets five years for buying a gun he thought he could legally own,

CS: Field-.458

2000-11-29 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's a gunsmith in Austria who makes revolvers in .458 Winchester Magnum, there was a review in Internationales Waffen Magazin. Presumably he makes them for novelty value. I personally wouldn't fancy shooting top loaded .458's out of

CS: Pol-Stop or I'll chant!

2000-11-29 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you lawfully hold a firearm for, say, shooting deer, there is absolutely nothing wrong in using it for self defence in the home PROVIDED that: It is the minimum force required in the circumstances. It is proportional to the perception of

CS: Pol-Stop or I'll chant!

2000-11-29 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] :::Fair enough but would you apply this logic to other objects that, if misused, could severly endanger the public. For instance motor vehicles or matches? Yes, certainly. There are some people that shouldnt be allowed anywhere n

CS: Legal-Bill of Rights

2000-12-02 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "John Hurst", INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --snip-- Page 75 quotes the case of Bowles v. Bank of England confirms that the Bill of Rights remains an operative statute BTW. Page 10 contains the following passage; &qu

CS: Misc-Driving on the PROPER side...

2000-12-03 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] If my information is right the first 'real' aircraft carrier was HMS Furious (15th Aug 1916) a converted cruiser. According to a photo I have the 'island' was forward and in the center. You took off over the bows and landed over the stern.

CS: Pol-statutory right of entry

2000-11-10 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The VAT men (Customs and Excise) have always had awesome powers. Who would cheat the Queens revenue men? I wish the police had their powers. IG (only kidding) Steve , IG, Considering the implications of 'herita

CS: Misc-Police Corruption

2000-11-11 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] --snip-- ". . . I now realise the amount of unpleasant, potentially dangerous and thoroughly objectionable people that own firearms certificates." Steve, IG, Well, IG, I guess that qualifies you as som

CS: Misc-Useful Quote

2000-11-11 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The real cause of the American Revolution: "All persons in whose possession any firearms may hereafter be found, will be deemed enemies to his majesty's government." --Gen. Gage Steve, John, For the list, w

CS: Crime-armed police raid wrong house

2000-11-11 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] at least you Brits are civil about such errors. here in the colonies, they just leave. No notes, no flowers, nothing. kinda like a real cheap date. Steve, Paul, Paul, you forgot to mention that they might even

CS: Crime-police show weapons seized from yardies

2000-11-11 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] This has come out on the same day as a report that racial complaints against the police are at an all time high. If this release was put out to counteract this bit of bad publicity it seems to have worked as it has had far more coverage (at leas

Legal-Murderer Used Former Police Firearm

2000-11-17 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Picked this up in my local paper, it may have a bearing on the reasons why the police are now destroying surplus firearms. --snip-- It was revealed that the weapon was a Smith and Wesson which had once been used as a policeman's gun. S

CS: Pol-The Gun Control Network

2000-11-20 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The most recent e-mail on Shooters' Rights which has just hit my screen (very good way of disseminating info. and motivating shooters, the Internet) refers to the 6 members of the Gun Control Network whose submission on banning weapons was accept

CS: Misc-Web Site of interest

2000-11-22 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take a look at http://www.kleasen.org.uk Now, I see that a gun club eventually shopped this guy. Good for them. Yes, it was outrageous that the Police gave him a certificate. No excuses there at all. Total incompetence. However, some of the co

CS: Pol-The Gun Control Network

2000-11-22 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have at least two subscribers who are in that constituency, either of you been to see your MP about the ban, chaps? Steve. I can see this as not being a particularly good idea. We may have all the best argumants, but after a communi

CS: Misc-Police Corruption

2000-11-22 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I ask on the basis that there are offences which would disqualify one from holding an FAC or SGC. Would the same offences be allowed by applicant to the Police ranks? From the limited reporting of this I have seen one would have to

CS: Pol-law-abiding?

2000-11-24 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] What constitutes law abiding? Someone never convicted or someone never caught? Steve, IG, Whatever happened to the idea of innocent until proven guilty? Your comment above, IG, either demonstrates your mind set, or

CS: Misc-Police Corruption

2000-11-24 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ya know, IG? Maybe if you cops were to have Friday night ho-down, and 'let it all hang out', you chaps would gain a sense of humor! Just a suggestion . . . Whats a ho-down? Do we need banjo players? IG Steve, IG, Well

CS: Pol-Stop or I'll chant!

2000-12-01 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The point I have tried to make, with a severe lack of success, is that some restrictions are necessary, unless you want the likes of Mr Kleasen and every other psycopathic criminal on the country wandering around tooled up to the eyeballs. Who

CS: Misc-'National maturity'

2000-12-01 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] In response to earlier comments, I have indeed lived abroad, I travel very widely and have by now made more trips to the US than I can accurately count. Nor are these thoughts anything very new. Fact is, they're Americans and we ain't, and

CS: Misc-Columbine

2000-12-01 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is an interesting series of articles on Columbine. http://www.usatoday.com/hphoto.htm --snip-- Kenneth Pantling Steve, Kenneth, I went looking, and came up with this gem: http://www.usatoday.com/news/dige

CS: Pol-Illegal for Children to Play with Toy Guns

2000-12-03 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The beginning of this story is bad enough - but read it to the end to find out just how ludicrous these anti-gunners can be. Mike P Steve, Mike, And, this was my input: Dear Editor, Re.: http://www.post-tri

CS: Legal-Knives

2000-12-05 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary a penknife is "A small folding knife, especially for carrying in the pocket." --snip-- And it would not be unreasonable for the man in the street to turn to dictionary for inf

CS: Pol-Illegal for Children to Play with Toy Guns

2000-12-06 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The beginning of this story is bad enough - but read it to the end to find out just how ludicrous these anti-gunners can be. Mike P Steve, Mike, And, this was my input: Dear Editor, Re.: http://www.post-tri

CS: Target-.50s

2000-12-08 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem with Section 1(4) is that it says available in significant numbers. Well no firearm is available in significant numbers except maybe .22s and 12 Gauge shotguns. What is a "significant number"? I suspect we will

CS: Target-Molebdenum

2000-12-09 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm no metallurgist, but how it was explained to me is something like this - moisture ( from the chemical reaction of burning powder ) plus molybdenum ( a sulphide ) plus stainless steel can set up an electro-chemical reaction path which cause

CS: Legal-antiques

2000-12-09 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The thing with .50s is that your average .50 Sharps is an antique, and antiques don't require licenses. Steve. Steve, In relation to that, is it legal to re-barrel one of those? Further, may you remanufacture a receive

CS: Misc-Molebdenum

2000-12-10 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not convinced moly coating does enhance barrel life, perhaps in certain situations but in my limited experience the only reason for barrel life being increased is because moly coating seems to reduce muzzle velocity, which must mean les

CS: Legal-Mercy for boy who cut bullies

2000-12-13 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The present problem in the UK is that the establishment is getting away with exceeding their authority. For example, IG is happy to state that in his official capacity he does not recognise the RKBA and he gets away with it, except in this discus

CS: Pol-Police state marches on

2000-12-13 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not know what all the fuss is about roadside DNA Tests. Only those who have something to hide have anything to fear. Let me tell you all that the police do not just stop innocent people in this country. Nor do they ever arrest peo

CS: Misc-Naval Gun Fun

2000-12-13 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! Some interesting things about big naval guns have come to my attention recently. For example: They didn't all elevate up to 45 degrees, thus denying them maximum range. They weren't all capable of firing flat, thus denying them the abili

CS: Misc-deadly doctors

2000-12-20 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:stats/gun control Number of physicians in the US = 700,000 Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year = 120,000 Accidental deaths per physician = 0.17 (U.S. Dept. of Health Human Services) Number of gun owners

CS: Misc-Gun Powder

2000-12-21 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] There was an article in Gun Digest a few years ago about how the guerillas in Afghanistan were making primers out of nitrocellulose film that was a pretty interesting read. Steve. I remember reading a Guns Review article some years ago ab

CS: Pol-Gun Rights Convention USA

2000-12-27 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Effective political action also needs to be addressed.( Remember the local campaign that ousted David Mellor ? ) Above all, such a convention would build bridges between individuals and organisations with a view to more united, and effecti

CS: Field-Gun Powder - Rook Rifles

2000-12-27 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] This from my memory: Rook rifle cartridges were reloaded for economy. --snip-- The primer went in last so you didn't have accidents. --snip-- This is cartridge reloading - for Rook Rifles - as it used to be before and after the

CS: Target-Primers

2000-12-27 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] NO WAY WOULD I ANNEAL USED PRIMERS, YOUR APPLICATION THE USE THEREOF IS OK, BUT REMEMBER PRIMERS ARE SUBJECT TO CONSIDERABLY MORE PRESSURE. IF YOU'VE EVER SEEN SOFT BRASS FLOW UNDER PRESSURE, YOU WON'T DO IT TWICE. PRIMER CUPS NEED TO HAVE

CS: Pol-Gun Rights Convention UK

2000-12-28 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whilst we are on this subject may I say that I believe that the GCN have the right to be anti-gun, but we have the equal right to be pro-gun AND TO SAY WHAT WE BELIVEVE AND WANT TO THEIR FACES! --snip-- Alex -- I suggested the

CS: Pol-more Jack Levin

2001-01-01 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Levin says, "If we really wanted to stop this violence, we'd have to make armed camps out of our offices." --snip-- Chris Ferris Christopher C. Ferris Nashua NH USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve, Chris, "If

CS: Target-weak rifle loads

2001-01-01 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have always used some form of "wadding" (usually polyester dressmaking stuff) on top of light loads in large cartridges. My use of wadding goes back a long way and was centered around preventing the detonation of small charges

CS: Target-weak rifle loads

2001-01-01 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have always used some form of "wadding" (usually polyester dressmaking stuff) on top of light loads in large cartridges. My use of wadding goes back a long way and was centered around preventing the detonation of small charges

CS: Pol-Charles Clark HAC report comments

2001-01-02 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just recieved the following reply from Charles Clark MP regarding the HAC report. Anyone with any doubts that ACPO are behind proposals for restrictions need only read on. --snip-- Steve, Neil, Somebody, or some gr

CS: Pol-UN Antis bleat about civilian arms sales

2001-01-11 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rights groups slam big powers over UN arms meeting By Irwin Arieff Steve, For those who are interested, this will put a face on your enemy: http://www.ryerson.ca/itm/wc

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