On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:00:59AM +0000, Peter Gelinas wrote: > > The real problem is that anyone who has been on this list for a couple of > years already knows all there is to know about what there is to know.
I thought I was intorducing some novel material by going on a tangent of guns largely unrelated to personal defense. I mean this is a liveaboard list,no? Oour boats are our homes, so if we have guns for whatever other reason, we most probably keep them at home, i.e. aboard. Me, I like target shooting, and would like to pick up hunting once I've got enough of a real job to buy a shotgun and take the license course. I don't flat out want a permit to carry a handgun around for personal defense up here in Canada, but would really appreciate if I could get a transportation permit to cover the fact that my home, where any target pistol of mine would ordinarily be stored, moves often, and these movements are almost never to/from an approved shooting range by the most direct route possible. I'd also like it if waterfowl hunting regulations didn't require me, if hunting from a boat, to have the boat's engine out of the water (it's an inboard, do I really have to hop into an unpowered boat to take a shot at a duck, or try and take the shot while swimming?) And finally it's be nice if there weren't so much goddamned paperwork attached to border crossings with a firearm. Needless to say, I still do pretty much all my shooting with borrowed guns. Cheers, Kris P.S. My thoughts on piracy is that for any large-scale cruising, carrying a gun aboard will attract more hassles and possible violence from corrupt officials, honest officials in stingy countries, organized criminals connected to officialdom, etc. Piracy is a glamorous and frightening threat, but it just doesn't strike me as all that pre-eminent a threat. -- Kris Coward http://unripe.melon.org/ GPG Fingerprint: 2BF3 957D 310A FEEC 4733 830E 21A4 05C7 1FEB 12B3 _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
