From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Of course the famous French martyr, St Denis, after his execution by
beheading at Montmartre is reputed to have picked up his head and walked
off. But the story does not stop there! Apparently his head was somewhat
dusty after having rol
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think that it may even be pertinent for a subsequent buyer to claim that
the fault was created by the previous owner of the rifle and leave the
vendor open to being sued for any injury that might result.
If any one has a faulty arm one
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In my opinion very much worthwhile. Probably the best TRUE antique and
modern ARMS show unlike many such as Birmingham and Nottingham which have
become "badge and button" sales!
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From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I do not think that we are going to be that far behind you. It is said that
the "line in the sand" for the Conservatives is stalking rifles and game
shooting shotguns and that ALL else is negotiable in terms of it being
proscrib
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At risk of starting another "I didn't know that but" whilst Robin Cook may
not know about the expert of Birmingham made "cutlasses" as they are
sometimes called in the West Indies or, as we know them, "machetes&quo
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The E-mail about "black faces" at Pistol A.D. was not meant
to be sarcastic in that sense but to show that perception is,
in fact, not always reality.
It is the same with the disparagement of those who wear
ex-surplus "ca
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Q. The essence of the question is: if a wild predatory animal inflicts
a certain level of misery upon its prey -- in the process of subduing it,
what
would you deem to be onerous when a human is conducting the same act?
A. Because the chasin
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If hunting is not cruel, why then am I prosecuted if I set a pack of large
dogs onto a smaller, solitary dog? All that the Hunting Bill really can be
said to be doing is simply extending to wild mammals the protection that
domestic ma
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was concerned too that at the last "Pistol AD" that there were a number of
black people present also. One can most definitely "judge a book by its
cover"! Drug dealers and illegal "Yardies" seeking to buy
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you "steal" a pheasant when it is alive...it is poaching. When it is
dead...it is theft. One cannot have "property" in game as it is wild. So
what then of pet pheasants kept in an enclosed aviary? Theft or poac
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ferocious looking characters, unshaven, unwashed, wearing camouflage
uniforms, pot bellied with knives sticking out of their boots ...
get the picture? If they were playing violins I would consider banning
music!
What? Do you
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Don't JUST vote for him. That really is pointless. Write to him again, when
you get your reply, thank him and ask him that as you wish to see such as he
back in the House of Commons after May 2001 how you can help him with
deliverin
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Police still exist? These were
another force that was armed as a matter of course as well.
--
I'm pretty sure they do.
Steve.
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From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks to Vince for commenting on my "four to five feet" (48"-60") group at
1000 Yards. It wasn't meant to impress, or show itself to be a poor
performance, but rather to point out that in the context of 1914
From: Richard Markham, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What's happened to the Phoenix postal competition?
I can't get them on the phone and we are waiting results from last
season.
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From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was ONLY when I did try shooting at 1000 Yards, with my SMLE at Bisley
with the HBSA, that I finally realised why the First World War ended up
being fought in the manner in which it did. Everyone should try it once.
Then everything
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I personally do not think that anybody should be allowed to own any gun of a
type that I personally do not shoot. And those should be strictly licensed.
Furthermore no-one has any use of military and police type weapons such as
pistols
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 cartri
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One might also point out that in actual fact the continued use of the police
to enforce the Firearms Acts was actually aiding an increase in crime by
removing officers from other duties, and ask whether your candidate would be
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Interestingly if you run over a dog in your car, lorry or other vehicle (and
kill the dog) you legally MUST report it to the police. If it is a cat?
Nothing. Running over and killing a cat does not require reporting the fact
to
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I recall seeing him on television at the Conservative Party Conference, when
he did his "stunt" of taking off his jacket being asked about a handgun ban.
He replied that the Government was going to wait for Cullen's Rep
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So if David Mellor was not typical of the Tory party what then of Michael
Forsyth, Sebastian Coe, Michael Howard, etc. etc. It makes one wonder if
these individuals are "not typical" of the Tory party why the 1997 Firearms
Act
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You tie a rope to the cage and throw it in the farmer's slurry pit where it
drowns in a manner that is guaranteed to excite even those whose taste for
inflicting pain on helpless animals has been otherwise jaded by years of
other acts
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It would be quite simple to identify who held these guns and what they were.
However, the thought crosses my mind that the excuse "I stole it in a
burglary" is a lot less incriminating for a criminal found in possession of
s
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You should practice more! I used to shoot hit and kill starlings at sixty
yards with my .22" Airsporter, iron sights and Eley Wasp. Nowadays? I doubt
it!
--
I have no problem _hitting_ the squirrels, they don't die when I
shoot th
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I actually was quite happy that Blair banned .22" pistols if only because
the Tories "secure clubs" criteria was in fact a de facto ban without
obligation to pay compensation. All Blair really did was oblige the
Government
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Black powder was most definitely made in the UK by grinding the wet mixture
under heavy rollers. There exists a very well known photograph of the
machinery. The two rollers were as tall as a man and about three feet wide.
Cybershoote
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wasn't saying or equating murder or rape with hunting, just pointing out
that it does not help the pro-hunting argument to state that if you have not
taken part, or witnessed an event or happening (in their case a hunt) that
you c
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Of course one thing that few people ever mention about controlling foxes is
cage trapping. It is humane and very efficient.
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From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Years ago, perhaps they still do, "Guns Ammo" used to have a advert for
Marlin Firearms on the back cover. Each advert had a different recipe for a
particular edible animal and featured also a rifle from the Marlin produ
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am still amazed that the idea exists - from the proposed T-Shirt - that it
was "New Labour" that banned handguns! Just to remind everybody, again, it
was John Major's Conservative Government that banned handguns.
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It does
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The irony of the hunting ban - I have my own views on whether we need one or
not - is that if enacted it will strengthen the hand of those wishing to see
action taken against those who presently illegally course hares at night
wit
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are you sure it was a squirrel and not a large grey cat? I don't have any
Sealpoint Siamese recipes that I recall from the back of "Guns Ammo"!
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It was definitely a squirrel. It was the biggest squirrel I have
ever seen, b
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The idea of T-Shirts with messages reminds me of the, true it is said, story
of the famous shoot where the beaters were given smocks with letters on to
wear so that the beating line could be kept "gapless". The story goes th
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I do not know if Stuart has seen a hunt, and a kill, or not. But has he to
have seen a rape or a murder before he can be "qualified" pronounce on
whether he personally finds the idea of those two acts wrong?
Cybersh
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here is the "reply" if you could call it that from William
Hague. It seems that all that happens is the reader sees
the word "handgun" and prints out the "standard" "handgun"
letter without botheri
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Excuse me they are not worthless 9mm JSP rounds. They are highly dangerous
prohibited expanding ammunition suitable for use in even more dangerous
prohibited small firearms. And...contained in (if ACPO had its way) a
component part - th
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Clicking on this takes us to Hansard. Click then on 17 January
and you can see what your MP had to say...or not!
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm/cmhansrd.htm
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From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The story I heard, again years ago, was that yes, they had forgotten the
"prop" PPK and that a "gopher" was sent out to Thomas Bland's on St.
Martin's lane and came back with the air pistol shown in the photograph.
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Handguns? From Britain? What make and model? Are we a "go between" or are
these handguns ones being sold from those handed in. I think this warrants
someone trying to get their MP or Peer to ask a question about this.
C
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One intriguing aspect of this is would the police be allowed to use such
weapons against Russian Spetsnatz paratroopers. I wonder if, by extension,
one could use the European Human Rights Act to argue the point of JHP and
JSP?
--
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes indeed. Expanding bullets, that's easy and also CS Gas as the Geneva Gas
Protocol prohibits the use, of course, of all gases in war...but from a
"rabble rousing2 point of view it makes good "copy"..
Cy
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Would they check the suspects for DNA matches against the recovered shot gun
in our contributor's novel before or after they had attacked them with their
personal thermobaric weapons. On a less sarcastic note I suppose that at
least it
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Might I suggest that the "proper" way of both getting Blair to realise the
support we wish to give Kate Hoey AND at the same time to express that
thanks to her is to write one letter only, direct to Tony Blair at 10
Dow
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The fact remains, and we are still not doing enough to continually point it
out day after day, that if Tony Martin had been allowed legally to possess
in his home non-lethal weapons of defence such as an electric baton or a CS
spray then
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There was a notable case involving just this issue some years ago. A bank
clerk was shot dead with a shot gun using Eley cartridges. Some (long) time
later the police raided the perpetrator's house. A box of cartridges was
found an
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But then, of course, there is a long tradition of BB "machine guns" in the
USA, for example the official BB firing .50" BMG for air gunner training. If
anyone doubts, I'll post a picture and a reference.
Cy
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A Tory Home Affairs spokesperson is reported today to have said, on being
asked her views on thermobaric weapons: "When elected to power at the
forthcoming General Election we shall actively examine the possibility of
this being i
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I saw this page recommended in one of the Sunday or Saturday colour
magazines. It has a "wicked" pheasant shooting game to download. I could not
kill more than half a dozen, yet some of the "top scores" seem huge. P
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I disagree with Cooper about the beret. It was warm, easily folded and put
in a pocket or under an epaulette when not needed, you could sit on it to
keep your bottom dry and it would not lose its shape when the ground was
wet, and you
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perhaps we need to now write to Miss Widdecombe asking if, in support of her
proposals, she will allow, in the home (as in France) non-lethal weapons of
self defence such as CS Gas and Electric Stun Guns to be possessed? Even,
perhaps, on
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am sorry that Alex had such bad luck with his rifle. Nothing to do with me
by the way. But I have always found "classics" not that bad. However it is
very much a case of "suck it and see". I found the real "devils&
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think that John Masters' books "Bugles and a Tiger" and "The Road Past
Mandalay" give good information on the Gurkha set-up. As I read it Gurkha
officers help Viceroy's Commissions, NOT King's Commissions and therefore
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You haven't seen "gun coping" at all until you have heard of, and seen some
of the "horrors" that used to be done with English double barrel shotguns
when the fetish for them was at its height in the late 1970's early 1980
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Generally with Bren Guns it was that the parts were no longer within the
correct tolerances. But best to check out safety with a qualified gunsmith.
Problem may well be either bore wear or, more worryingly headspace.
Cybershooters web
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dover did have Naval Guns! They were used to try, unsuccessfully, to sink
the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau during the two ships "Channel Dash" (Operation
Thunderbolt Cerberus) from Brest to the North Atlantic. They scored no
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are a number of gun auction houses. Weller and Dufty, Birmingham;
Southam and Sons, Thrapston, Northants, and some London Houses. Sellers'
Premium seems about 12-15% plus VAT. Buyers Premium? 10-15% plus VAT. Some
Houses will negotia
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was a jokeabout the "innocent having nothing to fear"
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From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It might be a Model 1917 or Pattern '14 or what have you "mummy wrapped" and
"in cosmoline" but it won't, in my opinion, be either the original wrap or
the original cosmoline. About the only chance, ever for exam
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I do not know what all the fuss is about roadside DNA Tests. Only those who
have something to hide have anything to fear. Let me tell you all that the
police do not just stop innocent people in this country. Nor do they ever
arrest peo
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The "Brown Bess" is I think the weapon with the longest "in service" period
with the English (British) Army without significant modification. From the
time of Marlborough to Wellington. Longer, too in India. I think tha
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Twenty knotted guns? Good work for someone. Are sculptors paid by the work,
or like actors, by the number of renditions of the work? Wouldn't it be
funny if someone cut the knot off and turned it into a "snubbie"!
--
I w
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As far as I can remember a Crown Court decision is not binding on any other
court. Which is probably a reason that an acquittal at a Crown Court on such
as a Walther would not have been appealed by the prosecution.
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It's not binding b
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apparently, I was told by an "expert" in these things, who is quite well
known, there is very little difference at "normal shot gun ranges" between
lettered shot and numbered shot in lethal effect when used on people.
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All this talk about stances is, sadly, but fond memories to me! I suppose
that we can use it with our CO2 air pistols? The only stance I last used was
two fingers up to John Major when some of us voted Labour in 1997 to
deliberately (a
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fancy my dear friend Ken Pantling worrying that people might think his
motives ill for posting Cooper's Commentary! Certainly not, I can warrant.
However the reference to "My Old Kentucky Home" in Jeff Cooper's
"Commenta
From: Richard Markham, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why is it that so many people are blinded by a venomous hatred of the
police, to the extent that everything else, common sense included, is
blotted out?
I am sure someone can answer this one.
IG
Because the only time Joe public sees the police
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do we prove the theory that the reason people "bear left" because of it
being the "shield side" of the body? By means of the Sherlock Homes
methodonce you have eliminated all other possibilities, that which
re
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can we prove that we, in UK, drive on the PROPER side of the road?
Simply look at the design of aircraft carriers! On ALL NATIONS carriers, US,
Japanese (with the sole exception of two converted cruisers), French,
Russian etc the air
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perhaps the reality is that the death penalty was never a deterrent to
murder...after all when you murder someone you do it presuming that you
actually won't get caughtso the "tariff" is irrelevant, but a deterrent
to crim
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
He was prosecuted by the (now) Lord Waddington who was later Secretary of
State for Home affairs under the Tories. When asked to comment on the matter
of Mr Kisko's innocence Lord Waddington's reply made interesti
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Having said that, about swerving, it may not be sentimentality that makes
one swerve to avoid an animal, or bird. I have witnessed the damage done to
a coach windscreen by a pheasant and have had a headlamp knocked from its
mountings by
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have now received a reply to my letter to the Home Office regarding the
possibility of other pistol shooting events being held in the United
Kingdom. I do hope that, finally, those who would aid the pistol events at
Bisley in 2002 will r
that be
like it or not. We just need to keep at it. Never ever
give up.
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From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Interestingly at the beginning of WWII Parker-Hale were
contracted to make, and did, a number of silenced
Winchester .22LR rifles for the war Office. I believe that
they were for the Home Guard "Special Units" tasked with
assass
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Who heard Albie Fox's speech? No mention at all that the handgun ban was a
Conservative Government, on a THREE LINE WHIP that banned pistol shooting!
Just the illusion that it was Blair's fault!
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Unfortunately in the near future convincing
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You have to pass the crypto keys by hand otherwise the
security falls over at that point anyway. If you phone or
email it, everyone can know it.
If you use PGP, you generate a private key (which you keep) and a public key
(which you can freely email
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I don't think anyone could answer a question like that.
From my perspective, very secure. From GCHQ's perspective,
not very. They can even crack 128-bit encryption now, so
PGP should be easier even than that.
Not so. PGP only uses public key
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The term "practical" has been used the turn of the century!
Walter Winans uses it in his books, and deals at some
length with the defensive use of the pistol. Tracey also
use the term in his book "Revolver Shooting in War"
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My advice is to designate a set day each week or month
for SOLE use of your range as a "Gallery range". Indeed
better to lease that set day to an entirely new commercial
enterprise run by perhaps yourself as an entirely separate
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Having written to my MP, Stephen Dorrell, asking him
to contact the Home Office Minister to clarify the
position regarding pistols at the forthcoming
Commonwealth Games I today received this reply:
Dear Stephen,
Thank you for your le
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From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Specific accord relating to use of gases is the "Geneva Gas Protocol" of
1926. The Germans had invented an anti-tank round in which the bullet (fired
from an A/Tank Rifle contained CS or CN type gas to neutralise the crew once
th
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1925 Gas Protocol
The Hague Convention, (17 June 1925)
Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or
Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare
Entry into Force: 8 Feb
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Only lethal gases banned? No it isn't! All gases are banned if my memory of
my university degree serves me all right.
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Hence Section 5(1)(b) of the 1968 Act, I assume.
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From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is another answer to the argument for 9mm JHP. So called "stopping
power" can be had by either a "light and fast" bullet or by a "heavy and
slow" bullet. This dates back to before the beginning of thi
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Much has been said about an "us and them" attitude. Just what is trying to
be done in allowing foreign nationals to import, possess and shoot pistols
in the UK! So what if Mick Gault won four Gold Medals. Did he have the
From: Richard Barrett, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In his recent post IG successfully identifies the fundamental problem
that exists in the relationship between the Police as an institution
and the general public.
The Falmouth incident which sparked of this thread brought out just
one way in which
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wholeheartedly agree...and NOW is the time to get
letter writing to your LOCAL MP asking him or her to
"ask the Home Secretary" if he will refuse to make any
exception to the law which prevents the shooting of
handguns in
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can recall that all police vehicles in London having
distinctive numbers painted on the outside. Why? As the
direct result of an incident in which a man was assaulted
by police officers in a vehicle. He could not identify the
vehicle and
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I, for one, will be writing to support Gill Marshall-Andrews. Those who
actively tried to stop this ban may, perversely, now support her because it
was a total ban. It sickens me that the NRA are seemingly colluding in this
whole matte
From: Richard Barrett, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The arguments being presented to justify anonymity for Police
Officers giving evidence in court, even the Coroner's court, are
plausible but represents the thin end of a very thick wedge.
That wedge being: one set of rules for the ordinary citizen
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