CS: Target-police and pistols

2000-08-22 Thread DMBrundle
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless someone can correct me I don't believe that anyone has ever been shot in GB with a full-auto by a police officer in the course of his duties. Difficult to say really. When the Met first bought the MP-5 they bought the full auto version fitted with a

CS: Pol-Britains Secret War

2000-08-20 Thread DMBrundle
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Sunday Times ran an interesting piece on a book by a former SAS soldier named Tom Carew. It describes Britsh involvement in Afganistan 20 years ago, in one part it tells how a British Blowpipe missile (the first one ever fired in anger) missed a Russian Hind

CS: Target-Shootersweb

2000-09-23 Thread DMBrundle
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kate Cormack We're now up to 29 club details - keep 'em coming... http://www.shootersweb.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Congratulations, you certainly seem to have had more success than when I set up the UK Shooting Web Ring.

CS: Pol-innocent animals

2000-11-20 Thread DMBrundle
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There was a monkey from a shipwreck that was hanged in Sunderland in the 1790's for being a Frenchman. It was Hartlepool actually. And its slightly more canny than it would appear. The law on marine salvage at the time considered a vessel abandoned only if there

CS: Pol-Stop or I'll chant!

2000-11-29 Thread DMBrundle
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now.if you take your firearm and shoot the intruder in circumstances where a warning was not given, although it would have been possible and reasonable to do so, then a court hearing will result. Proportionality comes into the calculation. And it's the same in

CS: Pol-Police take up arms

2000-12-05 Thread DMBrundle
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Experts and the police point out that gun crime is on the rise. Latest Home Office figures show 13,671 incidents recorded in 1998, a rise of 10 per cent on the previous year. A 10% rise, surely not, didn't we have 2 firearms acts in 1997 that aimed to eliminate

CS: Target-Drill Purpose designation

2000-12-19 Thread DMBrundle
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have an "email friend" in USA who bought a P14 Enfield with "DP" engraved on it in several places. He has fired it, but I am concerned that the rifle may not be safe with Drill Purpose designation. You're right to be cautious, I'd say don't use it. Most DP

CS: Misc-Naval Guns

2000-12-22 Thread DMBrundle
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, there's all sorts of companies that make rifling machines, you know, Germany, Austria, Russia, Bulgaria - long standing friends! And Belgium, a nation that refused to supply the British Government with 120mm tank ammunition during the Gulf War. -- Well, all

CS: Misc-5000 Christmas cards for Tony Martin

2001-01-03 Thread DMBrundle
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think this is the same David Mellor is it? Oh, yes. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and

CS: Misc-Suggestions for Mark Thomas - CH4

2001-01-20 Thread DMBrundle
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] His email address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If there are any political suggestions for him to investigate send him an email!!! Memories seem a little short round here. Mark Thomas is very anti-gun and very anti-hunting. He was responsible

CS: Pol-GCN and the FCC

2001-02-06 Thread DMBrundle
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually I'm just looking at Ian Taylor's submission to the HAC report and there is a huge mistake in it, he says that Killias did a Spearman rank order correlation on the data he collected that shows a connection between firearm ownership and homicide rates,

CS: Legal-man sentenced for shooting cat

2001-02-06 Thread DMBrundle
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEIGHBOUR SHOT CAT THAT SAT ON HIS VOLVO By PA News reporter The RSPCA today welcomed a decision to order a man to pay nearly 2,000 for shooting a neighbour's pet cat with an air gun because it was sitting on the bonnet of his 20,000 Volvo car. Lorry

CS: Misc-MIB's

2001-02-10 Thread DMBrundle
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wasn't it the SAS who came up with this in the '70s? The idea is to intimidate the opponent. If you check out the SAS clothing it isn't black its grey, SAS kit is designed primarily for form and function. MIB originated with US SWAT teams and it seems that

CS: Target-.50

2001-02-13 Thread DMBrundle
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] As for myself, I like all forms of shooting, but available time does not allow me to participate in everything and I genuinely have never seen a 50 cal rifle and did not know the courses of fire nor anything about it, other than its military origins. I know