CS: Field-cats the worst killers.

2001-02-07 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I heard nothing more about it. -- You would have done if it was my cat! Aye - same here - not from a particular attachment to the cat in question - rather from a lack of respect or particularly sadistic attitude to the animal in question.

CS: Target-Boom!

2001-02-07 Thread George
From: "George", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is an article from Rifle Magazine showing what happens when the wrong cartridge is fired in a rifle. A good lesson to learn the easy way, read it and remember it. Hopefully it will never happen to you. George

CS: Crime-Liverpool-armed Crime

2001-02-07 Thread Brian Toller
From: "Brian Toller", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Front page lead in the Liverpool Echo tonight. GUN LAW. Armed Police Aim To Halt City Shootings Armed police road checks are being set up on the streets of Liverpool. The crackdown aims to halt the recent spate of city centre shootings. Patrols

CS: Pol-.50

2001-02-07 Thread Alex Hamilton
From: "Alex Hamilton", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, Tom, I have never seen a 50 cal rifle and certainly never heard or seen one being shot. I shoot regularly at Bisley and other MoD ranges and although I shoot Target Rifle up to 1000 yds. Match Rifle is shot up to 1200 and they do not

CS: Pol-The March : Slogans

2001-02-07 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] How about, "Mr. Blair this time we're up in arms, Next time we'll be up and ARMED" Subtle ? A Cynic is what a Romantic Calls a Realist Clive01 Steve, Clive, We are reduce to the 'sound-bite', are we not? In this

CS: Legal-Airguns

2001-02-07 Thread Norman
From: Norman Bassett, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Very few people have ever been killed with 12 foot-pound (and under) airguns and I don't think its therefore reasonable in the legal sense to say that they ARE lethal. If something doesn't go bang it's not a firearm, by definition, even though

CS: Pol-Stand Up for you Voice

2001-02-07 Thread Eoghan
From: Eoghan Marshall-Purves, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Having been raised in a home surrounded by Stalkers, Wildfowlers and other gun users, I'm continuly appauled at the actions taken by Tony Blair and His "New Labour"! If he was to ban hunting I belive he would discover the true wrath of the

CS: Legal-Airguns

2001-02-07 Thread Richard Loweth
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, the, what is an "air pistol"? how does it differ from an "air rifle". Are there any measurements? Or do we look back to the "pistol" definition in the 1937 Act of a barrel of under nine inches for cartridge smooth bore guns? -- The guidance

CS: Crime-Ex-employee kills four and commits suicide

2001-02-07 Thread Don
From: Don Baldwin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] A disgruntled ex-employee has killed four people and then turned the gun on himself at an engine factory near Chicago. People get fired everyday, and don't go on shooting sprees. And, six years after he was fired?

CS: Pol-Stand Up for you Voice

2001-02-07 Thread stevep
From: stevep, [EMAIL PROTECTED] No rumour See http://www.march-info.org/main/banners.htm Steve -- It says "offensive" banners will be removed by stewards, whatever that means. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CS: Pol-One Organisation

2001-02-07 Thread Pete
From: Pete Ansbro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I remember when the BFSS and BASC tried to merge and that never happened, I think the chances frankly of BASC wanting to merge with the NRA or anyone else or vice versa are nil. I only read Shooting Times whilst passing through T@@sco or

CS: Target-NRA annual subscription increases

2001-02-07 Thread nicholas royall
From: "nicholas royall", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Mr Cheshire, I am moved to write to you with regard to a couple of related items to one which I raised at the NRA summer general meeting. At the time I asked what liabilities the NRA were landed with over the building of the shotgun

CS: Misc-Haiku

2001-02-07 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] To write a poem in seventeen syllables is very diffi Steve, Charles, Quite probably so, in a short little span is quite iffy But then English, more complex to speak, is more spiffy! -- =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*=

CS: Pol-One Organisation

2001-02-07 Thread Norman
From: Norman Bassett, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I feel that if even ONE other shooting organisation was to deliberately merge with the BASC it would promote useful changes to the BASC and the overall situation. Is anyone from any other organisation willing to write to their organisation

CS: Pol-The March : Slogans

2001-02-07 Thread jonathan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How about, "Mr. Blair this time we're up in arms, Next time we'll be up and ARMED" Subtle ? That will get everything we have left banned within a year. Jonathan Laws -- I still think desperately simple slogans are the best: "The handgun ban was

CS: Not so drastic plastic

2001-02-07 Thread KiPng
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOY GUN SALESMEN SPARK MAJOR POLICE ALERT 071355 FEB 10 By Jane Merrick, PA News A commuter sparked a major police alert today after seeing what he believed to be two men wielding guns on board a train - but who were actually salesmen with a bag full of toy

CS: Pol-.50

2001-02-07 Thread KiPng
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alex Hamilton said: To claim thatsomething is a sport implies that a large number of people are participating. The fact that something is shot in Switzerland or USA does not constitute a sport here - I wish it did, but we have to be realistic. Ah! And just

CS: Misc-Remington 700 ...WARNING...

2001-02-07 Thread jonathan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tragically a child had been shot dead by a parent who had released the safety catch on a loaded Remington 700 and it had fired. Killing the child. It is harsh to state that if it had been pointed in a safe direction that said accident would never have

CS: Misc-Haiku

2001-02-07 Thread Charles Parker
From: "Charles Parker", [EMAIL PROTECTED] To write a poem in seventeen syllables is very diffi Quite probably so, in a short little span is quite iffy But then English, more complex to speak, is more spiffy! - Not less not more but