CS: Pol-The march in March

2001-02-16 Thread Margarita
From: Margarita Booker, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "Richard Loweth", INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What you fail to understand that the bill is against hunting with dogs apposed to hunting with hounds. Lets face it once the bill becomes law it will be used to stop using dogs in the field M

CS: Target-Any old brass?

2001-02-16 Thread Alex Hamilton
From: "Alex Hamilton", [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and .303" ammo is either expensive or scarce (who'd > pay L27.50 per 100 for HXP anyway? Only L27.50? I pay twice that for .22/250 and .243! Aye lad - we were that poor we 'ad to make us own bullets wi' rabbit muck! ___

CS: Pol-AD Meetings

2001-02-16 Thread jonathan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > it doesn't matter what clothes you wear as long as you're a good person > inside. > > Keep the faith. > > Martyn Archer Yes I'm with you on that one. I realise that camo gear, holsters all over your body and an Alvis Stalwart parked in the drive isn't t

CS: Misc-Less Lethal Equiptment

2001-02-16 Thread jim.craig
From: "jim.craig", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glasgow based broadsheet 'The Herald' claims that British police are looking at a 'less than lethal' airgun to use in some circumstances. Under the headline 'Paintball guns bid in crime fight' they claim that the FN Herstal Model XM303 can fire a var

CS: Pol-.50

2001-02-16 Thread Earl W
From: "Earl W", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >I was concerned too that at the last "Pistol AD" that there were a number of black people present also. One can most definitely "judge a book by its cover"! Drug dealers and illegal "Yardies" seeking to buy "off-ticket guns" with money made from prostitu

CS: Pol-The march in March

2001-02-16 Thread jonathan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Make no mistake if, as some wrongly predict, the spotlight then turns on > game shooting and deer stalking... Oh yes it will, as sure as Eggs is Eggs it will. We all know very well how the "bannit" brigade operate, they aren't happy unless they are out ther

CS: Pol-.50

2001-02-16 Thread Robert Dashwood
From: "Robert Dashwood", [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I was concerned too that at the last "Pistol AD" that there were a number of > black people present also. One can most definitely "judge a book by its > cover"! Drug dealers and illegal "Yardies" seeking to buy "off-ticket guns" > with money

CS: Pol-Emigrate!

2001-02-16 Thread N
From: N J Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >...Stuff about the system > Emigrating what a loverly idea! > roger hardley And you think this system and the people it manipulates are unique to this country do you? Neil Francis Trowbridge, UK -- That

CS: Target-Any old brass?

2001-02-16 Thread KiPng
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~Aye lad - we were that poor we 'ad to make us own bullets wi' rabbit muck!~ You 'ad rabbit muck! - Luxury. We 'ad to pull us own teeth out, melt down the fillings and use those for t'bullets. Kenneth Pantling Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershoote

CS: Pol-The march in March

2001-02-16 Thread N
From: N J Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > any of the other legal methods of control.) It's because some people > are revolted by the fact that other people go hunting for > enjoyment, and also because it's still perceived to be the sole preserve of > the idle rich and it's a good way of indul

CS: Field-Cats the worst killers

2001-02-16 Thread N
From: N J Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Not you, although you might belong to the cat. :-) > > As I understand it, the cat is not considered to be property, it is not > owned by you or anyone. In contrast, I do own my dog. All this 'nobody owns their cat' stuff is all very quaint and

CS: Pol-.50

2001-02-16 Thread Alex Hamilton
From: "Alex Hamilton", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was concerned too that at the last "Pistol AD" that there were a number of black people present also. One can most definitely "judge a book by its cover"! Drug dealers and illegal "Yardies" seeking to buy "off-ticket guns" with money made from p

CS: Pol-AD Meetings

2001-02-16 Thread Alex Hamilton
From: "Alex Hamilton", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Alex and Kenneth - handbags at 10 paces. As the majority of us >"lurkers" who sit and read this barrage of BS will all realise that it's the >diversity of the human race that makes this world so interesting and therefore it's >the diversity that

CS: Pol-The march in March

2001-02-16 Thread Bippygee
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The move to ban hunting with hounds is purely about the perception of hunting as an elitist, upper-class pastime enjoyed by the well-off. If Mr Loweth got around a little more he would see that shooting live quarry is perceived in exactly the same way as hunting

CS: Misc-Sportsman's Association Website

2001-02-16 Thread SA Mail
From: "SA Mail", [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may be aware by now that the Sportsman's Association Website in offline. This is because we are in the process of changing hosts, and the process is taking longer than we were told it would. Hopefully the site will be back online early next week.

CS: Crime-Time to take guns out of community

2001-02-16 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] a.. On Thursday a man was jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey for stabbing to death a rival in a crowded mobile phone shop in Harlesden. Rupert "Birdeye" James, 35, was acquitted of murdering Dean Samuels but convicted of manslaughter. He claimed

CS: Misc-TV: Siege

2001-02-16 Thread Earl W
From: "Earl W", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just seen the Siege program on ITV tonight, why is it that the police marksman will only shoot when the target is pointing the firearm at the hostage with their finger on the trigger, about to kill the hostage? I'm thinking of the shooting where the hos

CS: Field-will you go to jail?

2001-02-16 Thread Ian Summerell
From: "Ian Summerell", [EMAIL PROTECTED] If any one is interested, Pobin Page is asking people to sign up to scare Blair. He is asking the question "will you go to jail for foxhunting?" You can sign up online at www.countrymansweekly.co.uk Ian Cybershooters website: http://www.

CS: Pol-BSSC

2001-02-16 Thread Richard Loweth
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED] But BSSC also said "keep quiet" after Hungerford! It didn't work then either. But they never learnt. I personally would not give a penny piece to them. Useless! Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED

CS: Pol-MoD Police Powers

2001-02-16 Thread Charles Parker
From: "Charles Parker", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spectator - 17 Feb 2001 A national police force is being assembled, and newspapers are looking the other way STEPHEN GLOVER When people say that this government has a tyrant’s heart I usually take it with a pinch of salt. Surely Tony Blair

CS: Crime-police armourer questioned

2001-02-16 Thread KiPng
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] POLICE ARMOURER QUESTIONED OVER `FIREARMS OFFENCES' 160006 FEB 10 An armourer for two police forces has been questioned about possible firearms offences, it emerged today. The 55-year-old man has been released on bail pending further inquiries until April

CS: Pol-NZ gun registration unlikely

2001-02-16 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://onenews.nzoom.com/news_detail/0,1227,29750,00.html > >Setback for gun registration plan Steve, Mike, & John (Howat), It's good (and that is stating it mildly) that John's organization has made inroads in this matter.

CS: Target-Any old brass?

2001-02-16 Thread Pete
From: Pete Ansbro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and .303" ammo is either expensive or scarce (who'd > pay L27.50 per 100 for HXP anyway? Only L27.50? I pay twice that for .22/250 and .243! Aye lad - we were that poor we 'ad to make us own bullets wi' rabbit muck! Pete Cybershooters

CS: Pol-.50

2001-02-16 Thread Richard Loweth
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was concerned too that at the last "Pistol AD" that there were a number of black people present also. One can most definitely "judge a book by its cover"! Drug dealers and illegal "Yardies" seeking to buy "off-ticket guns" with money made from pr

CS: Pol-AD Meetings

2001-02-16 Thread Martyn Archer
From: "Martyn Archer", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alex and Kenneth - handbags at 10 paces. As the majority of us "lerkers" who sit and read this barrage of BS will all realise that it's the diversity of the human race that makes this world so interesting and therefore it's the diversity that makes

CS: Misc-Useful Quote

2001-02-16 Thread John Hurst.
From: "John Hurst.", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Saxon is not like the Norman. His manners are not so polite. But he never means anything serious till he talks about justice and right. When he stands like an ox in the furrow with his sullen set eyes on your own, And grumbles, "This isn't fair

CS: Pol-New Police Weapon?

2001-02-16 Thread Charles Parker
From: "Charles Parker", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Police Review 9 Feb 2001 Advice sought over search for new weapon By SEAN HOWE ACPO has asked Home Office scientists to assist with the search for a new weapon - something less lethal than a gun but able to operate over greater distances th

CS: Pol-The march in March

2001-02-16 Thread Richard Loweth
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED] If hunting is not cruel, why then am I prosecuted if I set a pack of large dogs onto a smaller, solitary dog? All that the Hunting Bill really can be said to be doing is simply extending to wild mammals the protection that domestic mammals have enj

CS: Pol-McCain introduces gun bill

2001-02-16 Thread Steven Kendrick
McCain Planning Gun Control Bill By Mark Preston of Roll Call http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2001/02/news0208c.html Seizing on Congress' failure to reach a bipartisan agreement on gun safety legislation, Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) are quietly working toge

CS: Misc-Cutlasses

2001-02-16 Thread Jeremy
From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cutlasses and even Boarding Pikes were still listed as warships equipment right through the 1960's and even into the early 1970's. At least one case of pristine cutlasses was discovered in store in one of the West Wales storage depots during

CS: Field-Cats...and Pheasants..

2001-02-16 Thread Jonathan
From: Jonathan Spencer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >If you "steal" a pheasant when it is alive...it is poaching. This is my understanding - feel free to correct me. A wild living pheasant is a wild animal and belongs to no man. Once it is "reduced into possession" - whether alive or dead - it

CS: Field-Cats...and Pheasants..

2001-02-16 Thread Jeremy
From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED] If a wild animal has been legally captured and become a possession or is bred in captivity then it has become property and therefore theft from the aviary would be just that - theft. Regards Jerry Cybershooters website: http://www.cy

CS: Pol-SAS vs MMM

2001-02-16 Thread MikePiet
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.freep.com/news/metro/moms14_20010214.htm Soccer moms enlist in battle over guns Michigan's CCW fight takes fun out of games at metro business February 14, 2001 BY TAMARA AUDI FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER With its green indoor turf, a parking

CS: Pol-The march in March

2001-02-16 Thread David
From: David Chappell - UK, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Like a lot of people, I enjoy the quotes often posted here. I have kept just about all of them. Whilst going through them, I came upon this little gem that I had forgotton, it might make a nice poster: "We are peaceful people; we ask only

CS: Pol-The Left's Embrace of Guns

2001-02-16 Thread MikePiet
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ashcroft May Teach Lefties to Love Guns Knute Berger, AlterNet February 13, 2001 I have never understood why the left in this country has decided to unilaterally disarm. Why is it that liberal civil libertarians are always gung ho on the constitution, until i

CS: Pol-.50

2001-02-16 Thread Alex Hamilton
From: "Alex Hamilton", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not after the comment about Pistol AD. I was at the last one and so was Lord Cullen and neither of us saw anything that you mention. You say later on Pistol 94, so possibly you are getting confused as to the dates, but Pistol 96 did not have anyt

CS: Pol-BSSC

2001-02-16 Thread VinceB
From: "VinceB", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Er, well, here's me prattling along about 'one organisation' and an 'umbrella' organisation, embracing all the main existing associations and then Norman Bassett comes along and tells me about the BSSC. The BSSC (British Shooting Sports Council) already ex

CS: Misc-Cooper's Commentaries

2001-02-16 Thread KiPng
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MID-WINTER And by that we certainly do not mean 'the winter of our discontent.' The new regime in Washington may not be perfect in every respect, but when one is plucked out of the sea by a life boat he is not likely to complain that it leaks a little. The