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Eastern Daily Press, Tuesday, January 9, 2001
By BETH MANNING
Threats led builder to keep shotgun under bed
When builder Nathan Allen became the subject of a terrifying campaign of
harassment at his rural home he decided to go to the police for help.
From: RustyBullethole, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Telegraph 11.1.01
Stray horses on motorway are shot dead
By David Sapsted
THREE horses, part of a group that has been roaming and causing
chaos on the roads for two months, have been shot dead by police.
They were shot after they ran on to
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This first bit is really directed at ET: - would you
agree that the US right-to-carry laws are in fact
providing the US State and Federal governments with a
list of those most likely to use ANY arms at all to
defend themselves with against ANYONE -
From: "Alex Hamilton", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
42 deaths as use of handguns hits seven-year high
NTL NEWS 9:21am Thursday, 11th January 2001
Use of handguns in crime in England and Wales reached its highest level
for seven years in 1999-2000.
This is in spite of the ban on private
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wednesday night I dropped off the application forms for my FAC and SGC at
the Lancashire Police HQ at Hutton. Imagine my surprise when a member of the
Firearms department phoned me yesterday to tell me that I had neglected to
include 'membership'. When I asked
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Do they? That's news to me. Hollow nose bullets do not
necessarily mean expanding bullets, that is what is
prohibited.
Steve.
I'd heard that the HO had accepted that you could use
lead nosed bullets in the like of .30/30 as the flat lead
nose was
Actually thinking about this today, presumably 12 ft/lb
was decided on back when grey squirrels were pretty rare,
so shooting the smaller red squirrels wouldn't have been
a problem. With the fat sloath grey squirrels that inhabit
inner cities nowadays, a 12 ft/lb air rifle is less likely
to
From: "niel fagan", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm not sure if this was a "problem looking for a solution" or a bit of
quick marketing BUT
Prometheus Pellets 020 8340 3039 www.airgunpellets.com
Came up with their "sabot" style pellet, i.e. a plastic skirt around the
steel?? core. They made
From: "Peter Webb", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've had it happen with a Ruger M77 following a trigger job. That's one
gunsmith I won't go back to.. Peter W
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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Bermuda police resort to gunfire to subdue man HAMILTON (Reuters) - Police in
Bermuda shot a man twice with rubber bullets in what was thought to be the
first time the force in the British territory has fired at a suspect, a
police spokesman said. Officers
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This is a common problem in some rifle designs.
I had a Webley Osprey air-rifle, a side-lever job, when I was a kid. I found
out
that the safety was faulty only after I shot myself in the foot with it. The
safety
would stop the gun from firing, but when you
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is a bad idea! If your air-rifle is rated to 11.98ft.-lb.'s, you will
break
the law by using moly. You will get higher velocity from the same pellet,
and
therefore a higher M.E., due to the way an air-rifle works. Unlike a powder
which
needs the
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PUBLICATION: The Ottawa Sun
DATE: 2001.01.11
SECTION: News
PAGE: 16
BYLINE: Anne Dawson
PM SHOOTS BACK AT GUN LAW CRITIC; MINISTER BLASTED FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS
Prime Minister Jean Chretien tore a strip off Environment Minister David
Anderson in cabinet for
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sharpen your word processors boys, this ones a beaut...
quote:
The use of handguns in crime in England and Wales reached its highest level
for seven years in 1999-2000.
That is despite a ban on private ownership of the weapons introduced in the
wake of the
From: "D.F.Mallard", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Noticed this on ceefax today (11-1-01):
Handgun crime increases despite ban
Crimes involving handguns have grown by more than a third -
despite the ban on the weapons in the wake of the Dunblane
massacre five years ago.
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