From: "Michael Burke", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Joyce Lee Malcolm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]"), a professor of history at
>Bentley College and a
>senior fellow in the MIT Security Studies Program, is the author of To Keep
>and Bear Arms: The
>Origins of an Anglo-American Right (Harvard).
I have sent some in
From: "Dave", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does the fact that the police now routinely carry CS gas sprays, which are
classed as section 5 firearms, mean that they are now a "standing army" and
therefore in breach of the "Bill of Rights"?
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From: "Jim Franklin", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[.]
The benefit of such heat-shrunk tubes on big guns was that
cracking was progressive and not immediately
disastrous.
[.]
The very largest naval guns were made from 4 tubes. The liner with the
rifling was pressed into an "A tube" by hydraulics.
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> 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 about people in an arm
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've seen large naval guns referred to as rifles. Is this just an American
expression or was it used in the Royal Navy as well?
Kenneth Pantling
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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 in the
From: "SA Mail", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Time: Tue, 19-Dec-2000 11:17:22 GMT IP: 141.163.210.29
>
> Some time between Sunday 10 and Sunday 18 December 2000, the
> Duchy Shooting Association range near Zelah in Cornwall was
> burgled. I am placing this message in case anyone hears of items
From: "David M", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Makes you wonder just how the human race actually did survive before the
invention of firearms doesn't it.
Neil Francis
Trowbridge, UK
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Oh yes, politically correct castaways. They should last about five
minutes b
From: Norman Bassett, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Firing flat: no, I wasn't talking about modifications
to the bows. By "dished" I mean a retro-fitted concave
area in the main deck to allow the gun barrels to get
down flat when firing sideways where the original
design hadn't allowed that.
Plunging fir
From: "trustu", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.polfed.org/main_frame.htm
>
> Firearms
>
> The Police Federation was the first to call for a ban on the private
> ownership and possession of all handguns.
Oh really ?
Like many others from the shooting community, I attended the evidential
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/california/stories/mgunreg_20001216.htm
>
>
>
>Published Saturday, December 16, 2000
>
>
>State's assault weapons ban confusing, gun group claims
>The NRA plans to challenge regulati
From: Norman Bassett, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The "chestnuts" item was interesting but may have been
only part of the story.
Chinese pirates around Malaya in the early 1950's were
using powdered atap (kind of palm tree) nuts and brown
sugar (doesn't settle when vibrated) as a propellant
powder. Also
From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Turpitz was attacked more than once by 617 Squadron and
9 Squadron.
The in last pair of attacks she was first severely
damaged, then the Germans moved her South to be emplaced
as a massive coastal battery. It was here that she
received at least on
From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BIG Naval guns are simply THE biggest big boys toys!
I will bet that nearly everyone of us on this list is an
inveterate fiddler in either engineering, computers or
some such activity. I think shooting attracts the
mechanically/technically minded.
From: "John Hurst", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I've always thought this poll is completely meaningless because it
>is a poll of a sample of all police officers. If they did a poll
>purely of patrol officers who patrol high-crime urban areas I
>suspect the results would be very different.
Steve,
From: Jonathan Spencer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Jonathan's figures say maximum range was produced with
>35 deg elevation, not 29 deg.
I did wonder if anyone was watching! :-) But the difference was a mere
11 yards (or 0.75 of 1 per cent) over a 4,500 yard (2-1/2 mile) distance
- hardly worth the
From: "Kay, Martin (DEI)", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would say the subject P14 should not be used without qualified,
professional inspection involving removal of the forend woodwork. In my
early days as an apprentice in the RAF we had in the barrack rooms racks of
No4 rifles with a hole about 3/8 inc
From: nick royall, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
They would have been condemned en masse rather than individually, as were
the No4 and then the L81 cadet rifle because one was duff. I think you will
find that most of them had nothing wrong with them whatsoever. In the UK it
is easy to get them checked out
From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes the Royal Navy took heavy losses in the Med to
aircraft but almost none to medium/high level bombers,
the damage was inflicted by low level, dive bomber and
torpedo bomber attacks.
The harrowing story of the final evacuation from Crete
and the
From: "Cleland Rogers", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I worked in the Royal Hong Kong Police with many ex UK police officers.
When asked, most of them said that their attitude changed markedly when they
joined a routinely armed force. The prevailing attitude of most UK police
towards the carriage of firea
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