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Eastern Daily Press, Tuesday, January 9, 2001
By BETH MANNING
Threats led builder to keep shotgun under bed
When builder Nathan Allen became the subject of a terrifying campaign of
harassment at his rural home he decided to go to the police for help. But,
From: RustyÿBullethole, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Telegraph 11.1.01
Stray horses on motorway are shot dead
By David Sapsted
THREE horses, part of a group that has been roaming and causing
chaos on the roads for two months, have been shot dead by police.
They were shot after they ran on to
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>This first bit is really directed at ET: - would you
>agree that the US right-to-carry laws are in fact
>providing the US State and Federal governments with a
>list of those most likely to use ANY arms at all to
>defend themselves with against ANYONE
From: "Alex Hamilton", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
42 deaths as use of handguns hits seven-year high
NTL NEWS 9:21am Thursday, 11th January 2001
Use of handguns in crime in England and Wales reached its highest level
for seven years in 1999-2000.
This is in spite of the ban on private ownership
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On Wednesday night I dropped off the application forms for my FAC and SGC at
the Lancashire Police HQ at Hutton. Imagine my surprise when a member of the
Firearms department phoned me yesterday to tell me that I had neglected to
include 'membership'. When I asked wh
From: "Jim Franklin", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steve said;
"I think the title of this message should be: "proving"!"
Sorry, but-
An item is sent for "proof".
It is then said to have been "proofed"
The act of doing so is "proofing"
Anacronistic, possibly, but it is the terminology u
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> Do they? That's news to me. Hollow nose bullets do not
> necessarily mean expanding bullets, that is what is
> prohibited.
>
> Steve.
I'd heard that the HO had accepted that you could use
lead nosed bullets in the like of .30/30 as the flat lead
nose wa
From: "niel fagan", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Don't know about the unusual cartridges mentioned below but I have a box of
>.38 Spl practice ammo, plastic cases and bullets, powered by a large
>primer.
>Must be at least forty years old and surprisingly durable.
>Were these items sold in pre-Bl
Actually thinking about this today, presumably 12 ft/lb
was decided on back when grey squirrels were pretty rare,
so shooting the smaller red squirrels wouldn't have been
a problem. With the fat sloath grey squirrels that inhabit
inner cities nowadays, a 12 ft/lb air rifle is less likely
to
From: "niel fagan", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I'm not sure if this was a "problem looking for a solution" or a bit of
>quick marketing BUT
>
>Prometheus Pellets 020 8340 3039 www.airgunpellets.com
>
>Came up with their "sabot" style pellet, i.e. a plastic skirt around the
>steel?? core. They
From: "Peter Webb", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've had it happen with a Ruger M77 following a trigger job. That's one
gunsmith I won't go back to.. Peter W
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>> 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
>> Downing Street or House of Commons as
From: "roger gascoigne", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assoc. Press (Columbus, OH)
If you are familiar with PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals),
then you are aware of the fact they will do almost anything to protect
animals. This year's efforts to save Ohio's deer from the annual stat
From: "Alex Hamilton", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RSPCA is openly supporting the ban of foxhunting and it had a full page
advertisement in Daily Mail on Monday, 8th January depicting a dead fox,
which allegedly died of multiple injuries as a victim of Brabham Moor
Hunt. The message is that all th
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Bermuda police resort to gunfire to subdue man HAMILTON (Reuters) - Police in
Bermuda shot a man twice with rubber bullets in what was thought to be the
first time the force in the British territory has fired at a suspect, a
police spokesman said. Officers opened
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This is a common problem in some rifle designs.
I had a Webley Osprey air-rifle, a side-lever job, when I was a kid. I found
out
that the safety was faulty only after I shot myself in the foot with it. The
safety
would stop the gun from firing, but when you pull
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As I recall the Vulcans flew from |UK. But the tankers to re-fuel the
tankers flew from Ascension Island. Or something like that. What I do
re-call as being correct is that the in-flight re-fuel tankers had
themselves to be re-fuelled!
Cybersh
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Personally I think, if you can afford it, the Falcon Raptor is the
(expletive deleted, colloquially means "greatest" :)! I bought one, as new,
and standing at 20 yards I have put three shots through a .25 inch hole.
This is with a .22 rifle. Yes, on two of the shots
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This is a bad idea! If your air-rifle is rated to 11.98ft.-lb.'s, you will
break
the law by using moly. You will get higher velocity from the same pellet,
and
therefore a higher M.E., due to the way an air-rifle works. Unlike a powder
which
needs the back-pressur
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PUBLICATION: The Ottawa Sun
DATE: 2001.01.11
SECTION: News
PAGE: 16
BYLINE: Anne Dawson
PM SHOOTS BACK AT GUN LAW CRITIC; MINISTER BLASTED FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS
Prime Minister Jean Chretien tore a strip off Environment Minister David
Anderson in cabinet for cr
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Sharpen your word processors boys, this ones a beaut...
quote:
The use of handguns in crime in England and Wales reached its highest level
for seven years in 1999-2000.
That is despite a ban on private ownership of the weapons introduced in the
wake of the D
From: "D.F.Mallard", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Noticed this on ceefax today (11-1-01):
Handgun crime increases despite ban
Crimes involving handguns have grown by more than a third -
despite the ban on the weapons in the wake of the Dunblane
massacre five years ago.
Latest Home Office figure
From: "VinceB", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Listers,
I'm trying to find a gunshop with a tub of Vihtavuori 133 in stock - can
anyone help me? Need it for the coming season.
Thanks
VinceB
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