> -----Original Message----- > From: P. J. Alling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 September 2005 23:13 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Liberty. Was: anybody still shoot film? > > Older handguns are beautiful machines, as worthy of > collecting as any other well made object. Additionally > Government agents will always have handguns, or worse. Right > now they are on the side of the angels, mostly. That could > change. Even if I don't need a handgun, for that reason, I > won't foreclose on the future.
That argument doesn't really work very well. If the nature of the government changed to the extent that you felt you really needed a gun as a weapon (rather than for sports or to protect yourself against ordinary criminals), then the chances are that that government would already have made guns illegal. So you would need to obtain them illegally anyway. In situations like that it never seems difficult to find someone to sell you the weapons - look at Northern Ireland as an example. Bob
