CS: Field-Leading in FAC air rifles

2001-01-07 Thread Christopher Gould
From: "Christopher Gould", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am in the process of choosing a .22 FAC air rifle for use against grey squirrels in a beech plantation. The thought did occur to me that since the pellets are made of pure lead (are they?) barrel leading may occur if the velocity is high enou

CS: Pol-Honours list

2001-01-07 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sorry, just catching up with New Year emails... Surprisingly enough, there >was actually a half page article about Stephanie Cook in the sports section >of the Times last week, including a large picture of her posing with an air >pistol. >Rachel

CS: Crime-Citizen shootings of criminals mainly draw support

2001-01-07 Thread Chris R. Tame
From: "Chris R. Tame", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0106fire.html >Citizen shootings of criminals mainly draw support > >By OHN HOPKINS >© 2001, The Virginian-Pilot > >PORTSMOUTH -- An armed 15-year-old boy, who broke into a Portsmouth home in >June, is shot

CS: Pol-Evening Times telephone poll

2001-01-07 Thread jim.craig
From: "jim.craig", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes!I got the ''fault' message' myself on one of my early attempts to get through but was able to register plenty of calls later. So, incidentally, were a fair number of known friends and associates and an unknown number of Cybershooters and others. I

CS: Misc-Shotguns/forensic

2001-01-07 Thread Richard Loweth
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 now means th

CS: Pol-convention

2001-01-07 Thread RVMalbon
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would be very happy to support the convention idea. I have been following the debates and am wondering whether people would be interested in coming to Northampton - my Chairman owns a hotel there with conference facilities and the area is geographically central

CS: Crime-illegal gun dealers linked to killings

2001-01-07 Thread KiPng
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GUN DEALERS `DEMANDING DOUBLE FEE FOR SHOOTINGS' 070545 JAN 10 By Damien Pearse, Crime Correspondent, PA News Ruthless gun dealers are charging black killers L250 for the loan of a weapon and demanding double the fee if someone gets shot, police reveal

CS: Pol-NRA-ILA FAX ALERT

2001-01-07 Thread owner-rkba-alert
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NRA-ILA FAX ALERT Vol. 8, No. 1 1/5/01 MARYLAND LAW CREATES "de facto BAN" ON HANDGUNS Maryland's "ballistic fingerprinting" requirement has had a chilling effect on the lawful sale of handguns in the not-so-"Free State." Many new handguns, perfectly legal i

CS: Pol-Tony Martin and David Mellor

2001-01-07 Thread jonathan
From: [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 one young man might

CS: Misc-Shotguns/forensic

2001-01-07 Thread Jonathan
From: Jonathan Spencer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Can anyone on the list help with a hypothetical situation for a fiction I'm >working on? > >Someone is shot dead with an illeglly acquired shotgun with sawn-off barrels. >The police get hold of the gun. > >Once the police put it through foren

CS: Legal-Shops flout teenage knife law

2001-01-07 Thread jonathan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > It is illegal for knives to be sold to children under 16, but two 13-year-old > actors who took part in an investigation for ITV's Tonight with Trevor > McDonald programme found shops were flouting the law. > > They were filmed by an undercover camera buying

CS: Pol-Evening Times telephone poll

2001-01-07 Thread Jeff Wood
From: "Jeff Wood", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think an earlier message of mine, in response to Jim's first posting, must have failed to get through. I tried the No number, to be told by a recorded voice there was a "fault". Feeling in a cynical mood, I dialled the Yes number, and by a miracle o

CS: Pol-Massive Canadian Non-Compliance

2001-01-07 Thread MikePiet
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/005/nation/Many_in_Canada_up_in_arms_over_new_gun_curbs+.shtml Many in Canada up in arms over new gun curbs By Colin Nickerson, Globe Staff, 1/5/2001 MONTREAL - When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. As if to

CS: Pol-Gun Control Won't Work

2001-01-07 Thread Dr Chris R. Tame
From: "Dr Chris R. Tame", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.sierratimes.com/albenson.htm > >An Internet Publication for Real Americans >{PageLastUpdated();} > >  > > >Sorry, Folks - Gun Control Won't Work >At least not like they told us it would >By Al Benson Jr. - Posted: 01.02

CS: Misc-Shotguns/forensic

2001-01-07 Thread Jonathan
From: Jonathan Spencer, [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 and the shot wa

CS: Crime-Police seize Uzi in raid

2001-01-07 Thread KiPng
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TEENAGER HELD AS POLICE SEIZE GUNS 051632 JAN 10 By Tom Kelly, PA News A teenager was in police custody today after detectives seized weapons including an Uzi sub-machine gun during a raid. The Uzi, complete with silencer, was recovered with a rev

CS: Pol-Firearms Consultative Committee

2001-01-07 Thread Jeremy
From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Firearms Consultative Committee Reports were available on the Home Office Website, I believe most if not all of them were there. Regards Jerry -- Actually the latest one should be out in a week or two. Steve. Cybershooters we

CS: Misc-Shotguns/forensic

2001-01-07 Thread Richard Loweth
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chambering marks are most definitely left on the are just forward of the rims of a shot gun cartridge when it is fired in a typical single or double barrel gun with an extractor. It is just that on the properly made ones you cannot notice it. On on

CS: Target-auto-acceleration

2001-01-07 Thread Jeremy
From: Jeremy Peter Howells, JPHowells Auto-acceleration of very small charges of powder have been recorded. A Target Gun reloading article of several years ago noted it. The author of the article was sceptical of auto-acceleration and said so in print. However during a reloading cours