CS: Legal-disabled access

2000-05-31 Thread boxerlady
From: "boxerlady", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your legal check - I paid a range bill in person yesterday, and the person who dealt with me was a former pistol shooter, and disabled himself. He said more or less the same - the MOD is very much into equal opportunities and non-discrimination,

CS: Target-Comparative rifle quality

2000-05-31 Thread Jeremy
From: "Jeremy Peter Howells", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I fired the old AR-10 (pre-1988)on a number of occasions - impressive accuracy for a battle rifle, if you could get around the heavy trigger. Though in M16 straight-line configuration its a little heavy on the shoulder on a summers afternoon. Re

CS: Legal-Jill Dandidn't do it

2000-05-31 Thread Steve Mould
From: "Steve Mould", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Steve, Call me old fashioned but don't you need evidence to convict someone of murder. Just having someone who fits a psychological profile doesn't really cover it... or so i thought. One presumes they have something more substantial on this chap? I

CS: Misc-one killed in gun horseplay

2000-05-31 Thread Steven Kendrick/UK
Woman killed after gun 'joke' ends in tragedy A gun "joke" between two friends in South Africa ended in tragedy when one of them was shot dead. Amiena Dirks, 33, died from a gunshot wound to the left side of her head in the incident in Cape Town. The dead woman and an unidentified man were si

CS: Misc-hunter hurt in accident

2000-05-31 Thread Steven Kendrick/UK
Phone helps save shooting victim A hunter who accidentally shot himself successfully guided paramedics to his position using a mobile phone. Kevin Burness, 35, from Forfar, Scotland, was injured when the gun went off as he fell into a ditch. He had been on a lone pheasant shoot in Tayside, Sco

CS: Legal-disabled access

2000-05-31 Thread Martin
From: Martin Kay, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a concern about this debate in that civilian shooters as a whole could be at risk of loosing access to particular ranges. If it is likely to incur building costs then are the MOD at liberty to simply saw "Sorry, the range is no longer available for civ

CS: Target-info on in-the-ear hearing protection

2000-05-31 Thread nigel
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noisebreakers. They are a passive system with an injection moulded earpiece specially made for your ear, which then has a series of baffles built into them, letting you hear what people are saying, even whilst shooting. I bought a pair and I think they are the best thin

CS: Pol-Cyberwar

2000-05-31 Thread KiPng
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pentagon envisions cyber-warfare rise By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES The U.S. military by 2020 will develop the capability to conduct attacks on foreign computers and networks while defending its systems against strategic information warfare strikes, a Pent

CS: Pol-Yellow Stars

2000-05-31 Thread norrb
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Heinrich Harke's repeated suggestion that shooters wear yellow Stars of David on their armbands would be likely to cause offence to Jews all over the world and to be counter-productive if it were ever implemented. I can think of a VAST amount of other things that could

CS: Misc-anyone interested?

2000-05-31 Thread Brian Toller
From: "Brian Toller", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I actually applied for one of these posts a few years ago when Cheshire was civilianizing there licensing dept. Never got the job though. Could it be that mentioning membership of the SRA put a tick in the wrong box :-) "A golf course is the willful an

CS: Pol-LAPD chief's granddaughter murdered

2000-05-31 Thread Steven Kendrick/UK
Police chief's granddaughter gunned down The granddaughter of Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks was murdered in a restaurant car park by gunman who was aiming for her friend. Lori Gonzalez, 20, was shot several times by a man who walked up and opened fire near Popeye's fast food outlet in

CS: Pol-four year old in gun accident

2000-05-31 Thread Steven Kendrick/UK
Girl hurt in shooting accident A four-year-old girl in the US accidentally shot herself in the hand when she reached under a seat for her dummy and found a gun instead. Miranda Wagner, of Ohio, wounded herself in her left hand when she grasped the semiautomatic Tec-9 pistol in the living room o

CS: Misc-one-eyed man defends self

2000-05-31 Thread Steven Kendrick/UK
Raider shot dead by homeowner with one eye An 82-year-old American with one eye, Harvey Faulk, shot at two intruders who stole his wallet and beer - killing one of them. Two men forced their way into Faulk's house in Chadbourn, North Carolina, USA, and demanded his wallet. He dropped it and as