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Rights groups slam big powers over UN arms meeting
By Irwin Arieff
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Human rights and anti-gun groups
accused
the major world powers on Monday of trying to gut a U.N. conference on
small
arms trafficking by targeting only illegal
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Perfect proof how out of touch this fool is. To him this is a political -
tactical issue and how to best exploit it. To us it's a live or die issue.
Mike P
Gun-Control Fear Tactic
Bombed, Clinton Says
By RICHARD SISK
Daily News Washington Bureau
From: "Dr Chris R. Tame", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[I've forwarded this before but it's worth a second go
in case you missed it last time - Steve.]
>http://reason.com/0101/cr.jm.concealed.html
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From: "Chris R. Tame", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>This is the text of the KNX Los Angeles News Radio 1070 editorial reply,
>on behalf of the Libertarian Alternative, that I'll be recording Monday
>for airplay sometime in the next week or so. The original editorial
>being replied to follows.
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From: "Earl W", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Whitehall official accused of dirty tricks against comedian
8:17am Monday, 08th January 2001
A Whitehall official has been reprimanded after asking colleagues to find
information with which to smear comedian Mark Thomas.
The unnamed civil servant sent
From: "Christopher Gould", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acpocracy (noun) Rule by ACPO
Acpocratic (adjective) for example stating that a particular
object is so dangerous that no one should be permitted to own one
and then ordering lots of them for your own people, or campaigning
for somet
From: "Hugh Bellars", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please let's stop recirculating this urban myth. Both the Geneva Convention
and the Hague Accords apply only to international warfare between nations
and 'domestic problems' were specifically exempted from both sets of
documents. There is nothing
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> > My view is that our sport is faced with extermination within
> the next ten
> years.
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> It will be unless we replace those leaving.
Indeed. Well said Jim. Get people shooting, and it is harder to ban it.
Does anyone else notice that the ACPO are now incr
From: "William Latimer", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All
I have just purchased an old R.I.C. Carbine and would like to try some original
style reloads so does anyone know of any supplies of .303 215 grain round nose
jacketed bullets in G.B. at reasonable cost. For all that I intend to shoot it
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Do any listers know what the maximum velocity in an air
>rifle is before leading appears and what ft.lbs. energy
>this correlates to, also at what sort of velocity the best
>accuracy is obtained.
>Also, can anyone recommend an accurate compact FAC ai
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steve, & Richard,
In the matter of 'illegal weapons', allow me to comment:
First, it is hideous that any nation would be a signatory
to such an accord and proceed to employ any of those prohibited
item to be used against its
From: "Mike BEGGS", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dr Pleming is being unnecessarily modest on behalf of Vulcans.
U.K. to the Falklands is further than Serbia to anywhere in U.S.A. I know it
doesn't look like it on a Mercator projection but try measuring on a Globe.
So good luck with restoring the Vulc
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> As I write this Newsletter I note that the present
>Government is preparing to use its authority, under the
>Parliament Act, to force through their legislation to
>reduce the age of consent for homosexual acts to 16 years
>despite the obvious oppos
From: Mike Taylor, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In recent discussions the proofing of chamber inserts has been discussed
at some length. Proofing is a routine procedure which we all accept but
one of our contributors implied that the benefits were questionable.
This raises a few questions.
How is
From: George Wallace, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Accidental discharges, whether pure accident or with contributory
negligence, are always alarming. When an innocent victim is killed or
injured as a result we need to look at ALL the circumstances before leaping
to conclusions and blaming the equipm
From: "niel fagan", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Calibre 9mm, pistol P08 Artillery model, powder, cut open shot gun shells,
>bullet weight, 120 grns, metal, melted from spent bullets, source, the
>local army range, weight of charge, opened some 9mm sten & weighed them.
>First shot (at 20yds) roar
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> ...but can any
> fellow "Cybershooter" tell us what BOTH the police's two "illegal" items
> are?
> --
> CS gas and expanding bullets?
>
> Steve.
But the Police aren't covered by these accords so they
aren't illegal.
Jonathan Laws
--
True, but it is i
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> The author put it down to auto-acceleration, conjecturing
> that the very small charges of powder were laying along the
> bottom of the case and igniting together instead of in
> 'sequence' along the case giving a rapidly rising and massive
> pressure curve.
>
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Re: Remington 700's firing when safety is switched off:
Peter Capstick in his book "death in the long grass" tells
a very similar tale of a rifle that had this problem that
nearly ended up with him being killed. The rifle was a
.375 that had been loaned to the
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Via my very helpful MP, David Prior I have received the following letter from
Charles Clarke. I need some help from CS contributors to reply. I have put
my queries in brackets:
Quote:
Thank you for your letter of 28 November enclosing a further letter from
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