What's to be made of these lines, included in dr Zox's post: "gunners (of whom there are 60,000 licensed in Maryland)"
Hunting licenses? And: "All available firearms will be reported" To be taken as those volunteered -- i.e. "available firearms" v. "all firearms"? --jcr dr Zox wrote: > Here is an interesting POV from WWII: > > > For the present the hard-pressed Ordinance Department of the United > States Army cannot be expected to furnish sufficient arms, > ammunition, or equipment. Hence, the volunteers, for the most part, > will be expected to furnish their own weapons. For this reason, > gunners (of whom there are 60, 000 licensed in Maryland), members of > Rod and Gun Clubs, of Trap Shooting and similar organizations, will > be expected to constitute a part of this new military organization. > > -- Governor Herbert L. O’Conor > March 10, 1942 > Baltimore > > > http://aomol.net/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000409/ > html/am409--618.html > [snip] > All available firearms will be reported and those individuals to be > armed with rifles will be assigned to tasks where the long-range and1 > accurate fire of rifles will be necessarily employed. Those to be > armed with shot guns will be assigned tasks where the short range, > spreading fire of shot guns will be most effective. > _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
