CS: Target-Pipe Ranges

2000-10-02 Thread MALLY
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I was serving as an instructor in the Air Training Corps a projects handbook was produced which included a pipe range for cadets to build. Quite simple but effective. Any cybershooters who are members of the A.T.C. could possibly do a bit of digging in the archives

CS: Pol-Banff Gun Fanatic

2000-10-02 Thread davidsquires
From: "davidsquires", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think the human propensity for persecution of those seen as different is still alive and well. The same propensity has been exploited variously throughout history in episodes such as the witch hunt in this country in the 17th Century, the Nazi persecut

CS: Target-'Pipe ranges'

2000-10-02 Thread jim.craig
From: "jim.craig", [EMAIL PROTECTED] A portable range of this type (I think!) was in use at the Midland Game Fair under the name of 'Rifle Craft' with a selection of.22 rimfires of various types in use (semi-autos, lever actions etc). I'm not sure who or what 'Rifle Craft' are but they presumab

CS: Pol-Big Brother is watching you

2000-10-02 Thread niel fagan
From: "niel fagan", [EMAIL PROTECTED] As an industry watcher, not from the usual view-point though, it has been noted that BT/NTL etc are slowly killing off the smaller isp's so that control of the internet and the profits remain theirs, no doubt the security services will aid them as it means

CS: Pol-Mick Gault on the Olympics

2000-10-02 Thread Ron Rosenfeld
From: "Ron Rosenfeld", [EMAIL PROTECTED] " we cannot blame the ban on cartridge pistols on the lack of shooters in still legal diciplines. It does not stop the Clay Target Shooters from winning medals." Yes we can. I was first attracted to shooting by PP1 and 1500 shooters. Later I found

CS: Target-Modern Pentathlon

2000-10-02 Thread Nik
From: Nik Jones, [EMAIL PROTECTED] What annoyed me about the BBC's coverage of this event was that the Radio TImes billed it as being from 5:30am to 6am. Fine, set the VCR; 30 mins coverage sounds like it should be quite thorough. What happened? NO shooting coverage - AFAIK this used to be du

CS: Misc-Underground Newspapers

2000-10-02 Thread Norman
From: Norman Bassett, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anybody know anything about UK underground (that means illegal in the UK, something different in the US) newspapers? I'm following up reports of such papers in 1917 giving true casualty figures from the Great War. Also in September 1939-May 1940 giving

CS: Target-Range Regulations

2000-10-02 Thread niel fagan
From: "niel fagan", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >It strikes me that "down the pipe" shooting must be >one of the most economical range-construction methods. >You could shoot under your back garden from your >cellar or a specially-constructed pit under a >trapdoor. On a larger scale you'd have no problems

CS: Misc-Of interest?

2000-10-02 Thread niel fagan
From: "niel fagan", [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/programs/pe00/confs/4232A.html Law enforcement section.shame I can't attend as the bit about looking for concealed weapons with radar sounds interesting. -- Actually the "wire-tapping the Internet" one caught my eye.

CS: Pol-Mick Gault on the Olympics

2000-10-02 Thread Tim Jeffreys
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED] What did all those athletes who competed under the Olympic flag, when all the boycott nonsense was in full swing, do about "quotas" then? I appreciate Mick Gault not taking part if he didn't feel he'd had sufficient training (or money to get there of cour

CS: Crime-Thieves use apes and snakes to threaten victims

2000-10-02 Thread RustyBullethole
From: RustyBullethole, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Times 2.10.00 Thieves use apes and snakes to threaten victims FROM ADAM SAGE IN PARIS FRENCH criminal gangs are using snakes and Barbary apes to intimidate their victims and ward off the police. According to French de

CS: Pol-Mick Gault on the Olympics

2000-10-02 Thread bob blake
From: "bob blake", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Since the Firearms Amendment 1997 people in Britain, are not allowed to keep pistols, and this includes those involved with the sport. Of course, I am absolutely over the moon for Richard Faulds who won the gold medal for the men's clay pigeon shoot-out, b

CS: Target-Modern Pentathlon

2000-10-02 Thread bob blake
From: "bob blake", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Nice to see the two ladies winning a gold and a bronze in the modern pentathlon at the big "O". The BBC said they were "surprise" medals - they didn't point out that it was a surprise because one of the disciplines had been choked to death by the country th

CS: Target-Pipe ranges

2000-10-02 Thread RustyBullethole
From: RustyBullethole, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IRA are expert pipe range builders, one type is constructed by filling a trench with old car tyres - "packet of polo's" style. A concealed pit at each end serves as a firing point and butt, the car tyres act as a baffle and so, along with the soil i

CS: Legal-BBC News North-west

2000-10-02 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >At 6:30 PM on 28th September there was an item - "Beswick's >Beat" in which Allan Beswick interviewed George Wallace Alan Beswick - the radio broadcaster from the North West - Formerly of Red Rose Radio - Preston and sometimes heard on national BB

CS: Legal-Banff Gun Fanatic

2000-10-02 Thread Kay, Martin \(DEI\)
From: "Kay, Martin (DEI)", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ever noticed whenever someone having virtually any involvement with firearms is reported in the UK press they are gun "fanatics", rather than being an "avid" stamp collector, model railway "enthusiast", or "keen" fisherman etc.? Martin Kay -- Mmm, w

CS: Pol-Big Brother is watching you

2000-10-02 Thread Martyn
From: "Martyn", [EMAIL PROTECTED] To all cybershooters who worry about the RIP bill. Most ISP's will now have to comply to the law and fit e-mail interrogation "boxes" to their mail servers. This allows the security services, who's job it is to protect us from the nasty Johnny Foreigner, to rea

CS: Pol-Wal-Mart Mk2

2000-10-02 Thread George
From: "George", [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CS: Pol-Wal-Mart Mk2

2000-10-02 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] That bit about the 1000 foot limit has been essentially null since that law was challenged. Congress had the temerity to reinstate it, but it hasn't been enforced with application by any fed that I am aware of -- seeing as how it is 'settled law', a