CS: Crime-Gun laws spur more crime

2001-01-21 Thread jonathan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Central Newcastle, in the north of England, may actually be > the most dangerous place in the industrialized world. The Home > Office in Britain reports that "incidents of violence against > the person,'' which includes common assault, right up to and > including

CS: Misc-Careless cops?

2001-01-21 Thread Tom Charnock
From: "Tom Charnock", [EMAIL PROTECTED] No charges necessary as he was shot by armed response officers responding to a call that someone was waving about "gun bits". Well waving about "gun bits" is FAR more serious than holding the leg of a table, and we know that can get you shot !!!

CS: Field-squirrels

2001-01-21 Thread oddball
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can assure everyone on the list with an interest in shooting squirrels, that a 12ft.lb. air rifle is more than adequate for the job, having taken several of the little blighters down quite successfully with my PCP BSA Super-10, using Crosman Powapels (14.7grains).

CS: Pol-Living in fear....of gun control laws.

2001-01-21 Thread David M
From: "David M", [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/17/01 11:20 a.m. Living in Fear . . . . of gun-control laws. By Dave Kopel, Dr. Paul Gallant, & Dr. Joanne Eisen of the Independence Institute December 26, 2000, and another mass murder, as 42-year-old Michael McDermott went on a rampage in Wakefi

CS: Pol-Hunting ban

2001-01-21 Thread Jonathan
From: Jonathan Spencer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >-- >I don't pretend to be an expert on fox hunting, Nor me, although I have hunted with hounds once and discussed much with those who are committed hunters. >so surely it will just be >ploughed up and all the foxes killed off? I'm sure

CS: Pol-Not going?

2001-01-21 Thread Margarita
From: Margarita Booker, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Stuart wrote > >"So I won't be put off from joining the Countryside Alliance march >by imagined threats of retaliation. The reason I won't be going is >because I'm opposed to fox hunting. You do what you think's right." The problem with the

CS: Pol-DNA Testing

2001-01-21 Thread Brian Toller
From: "Brian Toller", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The presenters of a radio prog were asking people to give reasons why DNA samples should not be held as "they couldn't think of any". First submission was from a serving police officer who gave an example of what he said were many more instances al

CS: Pol-US Surgeon Gen and tv violence

2001-01-21 Thread SSAA
From: SSAA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] LA Times http://www.latimes.com/news/front/20010117/t04603.html Wednesday, January 17, 2001 Surgeon Gen. Links TV, Real Violence Entertainment: Report finds repeated early childhood exposure to intense shows, video games causes aggressive behavior. By

CS: Pol-hunting ban

2001-01-21 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Yesterdays vote in the House of Prats marked a new low for the principle of >freedom in the no longer Great Britain. --snip-- >Our transatlantic cousins got totally fed up with this sort of thing over >200 years ago, so why are we still suf

CS: Pol-Canadian gun registry fails to recognise criminals

2001-01-21 Thread David M
From: "David M", [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20010119/442755.html Gun safety, indeed National Post The goal of Canada's half-billion dollar gun registry is public safety. By requiring gun owners to provide references and submit to a det

CS: Pol-Hunting ban

2001-01-21 Thread Jeremy
From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is the fine the only intended penalty. Others could include :- Confiscation and destruction of the hounds, confiscation and destruction of the horses, confiscation and destruction of the vehicles and equipment used to deliver the horses, ho

CS: Field-Eating squirrels...

2001-01-21 Thread Richard Loweth
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Years ago, perhaps they still do, "Guns & Ammo" used to have a advert for Marlin Firearms on the back cover. Each advert had a different recipe for a particular edible animal and featured also a rifle from the Marlin product range that could be use

CS: Legal-Guns for Self-defence

2001-01-21 Thread jim.craig
From: "jim.craig", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know about actual use of firearms by the authorities but a Glasgow newspaper recently ran an article showing old photos of tanks and troops with machine guns deployed in George Square in the centre of the city during and shortly after the Genera

CS: Pol-the debate in Parliament

2001-01-21 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > But Tony Banks(Lab, West Ham) who is against hunting, gave assurances that > > he, personally, would never ban angling. He said: "You don't hunt fish with > > dogs and if you are a decent angler you put the fish back. I am a coarse > > fisherma

CS: Misc-Proofing

2001-01-21 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >The ball, or the egg, is back with you, or is it better that we both agree >to share it. > >Keep up the good work > >Bob Steve, & Bob, Bob, maybe we should make a salad with that egg? Here in the US, egg salad is considered a

CS: Pol-The march in March

2001-01-21 Thread Kenneth
From: Kenneth Wyatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why don't we have TWO placards? :-o I always think that rows and rows of identical messages in a demo smacks of ideas being issued instead of being spontaneous. Start a list, both ideas are excellent. See you all in London Ken -- We're not allow

CS: Misc-new book

2001-01-21 Thread trustu
From: "trustu", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gun Culture or Gun Control, Firearms Violence and Society, by Peter Squires. I have had this book for some time and I strongly recommend that you do not buy it. The reason ? - most of the " unbiased" research material was supplied by Prof Taylor of th

CS: Legal-Scottish Public Enquiry Law

2001-01-21 Thread Jeremy
From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The technique of mixing ammunition natures was discussed often in the late 1970's and early 1980's as a tactical methodology of getting the best results in defensive shooting with a handgun. Remember these were the days when HP didn't expand

CS: Pol-The march in March

2001-01-21 Thread jim.craig
From: "jim.craig", [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not too hard to make up a tee-shirt transfer with whatever message you want and wear it on the day. Mine reads; Front:' We're living in Blair's Banned-it Country' and on the rear lists various things which New Labour have either done away with or

CS: Admin-website updates

2001-01-21 Thread Steven Kendrick
My griping on a variety of issues can be read in my latest editorial at: http://www.cybershooters.org/january_2001_editorial.htm Also if you're interested in guns I have heavily updated some of the reviews on the DGCA website at www.cybershooters.org/dgca - especially the M4 review. S

CS: Legal-new guidance on antiques

2001-01-21 Thread Steven Kendrick
Also in the latest editorial is a link to the new guidance on antiques: http://www.cybershooters.org/january_2001_editorial.htm Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T

CS: Legal-new guidance on antiques

2001-01-21 Thread Steven Kendrick
Also in the latest editorial is a link to the new guidance on antiques: http://www.cybershooters.org/january_2001_editorial.htm Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T

CS: Field-shooting squirrels

2001-01-21 Thread jonathan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > So, how does one prepare and cook Squig then? I have a few nice juicy ones > that run within an easy shot of my bedroom window! Saw a programme on telly a while back about Elvis Presley, apparently when he was a nipper Squirrel was a cheap (well free) alturn

CS: Pol-The march in March

2001-01-21 Thread Richard Loweth
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am still amazed that the idea exists - from the proposed T-Shirt - that it was "New Labour" that banned handguns! Just to remind everybody, again, it was John Major's Conservative Government that banned handguns. -- It doesn't make the T-shirt i

CS: Pol-Hunting ban

2001-01-21 Thread Adrian
From: Adrian, [EMAIL PROTECTED] T >Once a hunt is up and running as a drag hunt I understand >the wording of the act may make it an offence if the hounds >were to deviate onto a real fox trail and run it to ground. >The hunt would have to make realistic effort to prevent this >beforehand (

CS: Pol-Hunting ban

2001-01-21 Thread Richard Loweth
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The irony of the hunting ban - I have my own views on whether we need one or not - is that if enacted it will strengthen the hand of those wishing to see action taken against those who presently illegally course hares at night with lurchers and lam

CS: Field-Eating squirrels...

2001-01-21 Thread Richard Loweth
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you sure it was a squirrel and not a large grey cat? I don't have any Sealpoint Siamese recipes that I recall from the back of "Guns & Ammo"! -- It was definitely a squirrel. It was the biggest squirrel I have ever seen, bigger than some cats

CS: Pol-The March in March

2001-01-21 Thread Richard Loweth
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The idea of T-Shirts with messages reminds me of the, true it is said, story of the famous shoot where the beaters were given smocks with letters on to wear so that the beating line could be kept "gapless". The story goes that the beaters took grea

CS: Pol-Not going?

2001-01-21 Thread Richard Loweth
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not know if Stuart has seen a hunt, and a kill, or not. But has he to have seen a rape or a murder before he can be "qualified" pronounce on whether he personally finds the idea of those two acts wrong? Cybershooters website: http://www.c

CS: Pol-Hunting ban

2001-01-21 Thread Matthew Wright
From: "Matthew Wright", [EMAIL PROTECTED] One of the penalties in the proposal in addition to a L5000 fine is a ban for life on owning a dog! Matthew Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

CS: Pol-The march in March Placards

2001-01-21 Thread Neil Roberts
From: "Neil Roberts", [EMAIL PROTECTED] We're not allowed to have placards, it will have to be T-shirts or hats (or shopping bags ). Steve. How about thick card strapped to one arm like a shield with the message on Neil -- I think you

Re: CS: Pol-March In March Worries

2001-01-21 Thread Steven Kendrick/UK
Message text written by Neil Francis >Are you seriously telling me that by putting up a personal WWW page on guns and this country's attitudes to them or writing to any pro gun maillist or BBS on the Internet will attain you a file in MI x? Come on - get real. You have said as much yourself whe