CS: Pol-Emigrate!

2001-02-23 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think that all systems manipulate to one degree or another, but does that make this country right? Never said it did. I was just illustrating the truism of the old saying - 'you can't beat the system'. You have inferred a lot from my single statement

CS: Target-Carl Zeiss Scope help

2001-02-22 Thread Neil Roberts
From: "Neil Roberts", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there anyone who might be able to give me any info on a Carl Zeiss scope I have. I've uploaded them onto my web site at http://www.btinternet.com/~neilroberts/scope/scope.html Any help much appreciated Neil -- The Swiss are pretty kee

CS: Pol-The march in March

2001-02-19 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] As over 75% of people in the UK cannot stand the silly game of Foot Ball Completely and utterly incorrect. You have just made this statistic up haven't you? - Neil Francis Trowbridge, UK - [EMAIL PROTECTED

CS: Pol-The march in March

2001-02-18 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The essence of the question is: if a wild predatory animal inflicts a certain level of misery upon its prey -- in the process of subduing it, what would you deem to be onerous when a human is conducting the same act? Oh please

CS: Pol-The march in March

2001-02-18 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a) Just because you find something distasteful is not a good enough reason to prevent other people who happen to enjoy that activity from engaging in it. But if - say - 70% of the country find it distasteful - does it become reasonable to look

CS: Field-cats the worst killers.

2001-02-07 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I heard nothing more about it. -- You would have done if it was my cat! Aye - same here - not from a particular attachment to the cat in question - rather from a lack of respect or particularly sadistic attitude to the animal in question

CS: Admin-archives

2001-02-02 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] One thing I would point out again is that the most common reason I get given for unsubscribing is the volume of email messages. There are also the (web) archives - may as well publicize these as well. I have to say - for what is sent out - 20

CS: Pol-Canadian radio programme in Real Audio

2001-02-01 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case you missed it, the 2 hr show is available in Real Audio at http://www.radio.cbc.ca/programs/checkup/archive/2001/010121_ccc.ram Having listened to an hour of this I now understand why The Canadian nation get so much stick for being

CS: Pol-Hunting ban

2001-01-24 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... it is the farmers and land owners as they would be left with a pest problem with no reason to put up with it anymore as they would derive no revenue from it. You're probably right. The CA keep telling me it is these people (and general

CS: Pol-Fishing next

2001-01-24 Thread Neil Roberts
From: "Neil Roberts", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Came by this from the telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003609235117673rtmo=r 9EFSXXXatmo=tttdpg=/et/01/1/13/nchip13.html FISH and chip shops have been declared a legitimate target for attack by animal rights

CS: Pol- New Labour Banned Pistols

2001-01-23 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and if the tories get wind of how unpopular the handgun ban is with a sizable segment of people who might be convinced to vote for them Not correct. The handgun ban isn't unpopular with the general public. At best not many care (or know

CS: Misc-Suggestions for Mark Thomas - CH4

2001-01-20 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] If there are any political suggestions for him to investigate send him an email!!! How about a follow up to the expose he did on the Countryside Alliance in 1998? I seem to remember many hunters and shooters didn't like him too much

CS: Misc-the man with the golden air pistol

2001-01-16 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Er, actually we did notice, Richard Law I think was the first to notice it was an air pistol many years ago. Surely even before this. Are we saying here that given the film's popularity throughout the world this was not noticed until the 1980s

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: Pol-Police Review article

2001-01-04 Thread Neil
From: Neil Wareham, [EMAIL PROTECTED] There was an article in the 15th December edition of Police Review about recruiting female officers to the Tactical Firearms Unit of Greater Manchester Police. I can't reproduce it in full, but here's a couple of highlights. After all 10 female

CS: Pol-Gun Rights Convention UK

2001-01-01 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let's look for a minute at conventions. If a bunch of rather sad UK sciernce fiction fans can hold multiple ( and highly sucessfull ) conventions throughout the country So what is the difference between rather sad science fiction fans and rather sad

CS: Pol-One Organisation

2000-12-06 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] It didn't. My view is that BASC has the most members, so it makes more sense to gravitate towards them. I'm convinced the NRA is a waste of time. ... And The NRA is expensive at ~50 quid a year. I'm still biased against BASC (and still deeply mistrust

CS: Legal-Mercy for boy who cut bullies

2000-12-05 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] An "act of self defence" and then found guilty of having an offensive weapon - strange days indeed. Indeed - now although the court seemed to agree this was self defence why doesn't it also claim that the weapon was actually a defens

CS: Misc-Virus and Other Pests

2000-12-05 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "W. Grint.", INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] My advice to all is to ignore him, [IG] he is only trying to wind you up. If you could group all IG files together to make mass deletion easier, Isn't this just a case of you don't like what you a

CS: Pol-Police close bad apple website

2000-12-01 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try the following which was to be their new site http://www.policecorruption.co.uk/ Tom C When did this site actually go off the air? - Neil Francis Trowbridge, UK - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cybershooters website: http

CS: Misc-Shooters' Web

2000-11-25 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shooters' Web is now set up so that you can log in and register/edit your club's details yourself. As an existing registered club, you have been issued with a username and password as follows: Looks good. However. As the site says it is supported

Misc-Police Corruption

2000-11-17 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] What about the formerly vociferous shooting organisation now sunk without trace? Hang - on - is this the one I have just paid another 20 odd quid to for a subscription rewnewal? I demand a recount. On the subject - just what is the state of the SRA

CS: Field-how to deal with roadkill

2000-10-31 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are seeing more and more of this in the countryside. Its not unusual to see people stop competely on a main road or swerve to the other side of the road because of a squirrel or other small pest. It is not the fact that is it a squirrel, cat, fox

CS: Pol-Long Barrelled Pistol Ban ?

2000-10-30 Thread Neil Roberts
From: "Neil Roberts", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Following on from the Home Affairs Committee recommendations "We recommend that when a new type of firearm are developed which appear designed to circumvent the provisions of the existing law, the Secretary of State ought to consider usin

CS: Target-RX Products- Where are they ?

2000-10-22 Thread Neil Roberts
From: "Neil Roberts", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know if RX (the people who made the turning targets and Air weapon changers) are still about. If so any one a contact number or address. The last I have is the Caerphilly address, which I get no reply from. Neil Cybershooters web

CS: Pol-Crime squad

2000-10-17 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] couldn't tell the difference between a Glock 22 and a Marui airsoft Glock 17. I could tell the difference on a 625 line TV set for crying out loud! I can understand how the police might not be able to tell the difference between a plastic Uzi and a real

CS: Misc-A recommendation

2000-10-09 Thread Neil
From: Neil Wareham, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a quick suggestion for any Cybershooters who find themselves in the vicinity of New Hampshire. Try and get in touch with the Gun Owners of New Hampshire (www.gonh.org). A friendlier bunch of people you won't find. The fact that they let you play

CS: Legal-Certificate renewals

2000-10-09 Thread Neil Roberts
From: "Neil Roberts", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve, here we have a problem then. If the certificate is about to expire, the police have not renewed it or issued a temporary permit, the local RFD's will not touch them, what would you do with them ? Polite answers only ! -- Hand them in to

CS: Pol-Albie Fox at Tory Conference...

2000-10-08 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The information that Albie Fox had been accepted as a Conservative party candidate for Ynys Mon was posted to the SA WWW site at least 3 weeks ago. Albie himself also posted information to the SA BBS. Does nobody keep an eye on this site? I though you

CS: Misc-Big brother is watching you

2000-10-04 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP is probably as secure as anyone needs right now - however only as secure as the key. (Traditional) PGP uses RSA algorithms for its key management and last time I looked you could use 2047 bit encryption for this. It uses IDEA for its data encryption

CS: Legal-BBC News North-west

2000-10-02 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 6:30 PM on 28th September there was an item - "Beswick's Beat" in which Allan Beswick interviewed George Wallace Alan Beswick - the radio broadcaster from the North West - Formerly of Red Rose Radio - Preston and sometimes heard on na

CS: Legal-Banff Gun Fanatic

2000-09-30 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aberdeen Press Journal Thursday 28 September 2000 Community's relief as lone gun fanatic gets six year's jail Good God - This whole episode is tragic. This guy certainly was public enemy number one wasn't he - even to the extent that he was completely

CS: Pol-Anne Pearston

2000-09-25 Thread Neil
From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sit and watch breathlessly for the questioner to point out L100 million was spent on banning handguns and at least four times as many people have been murdered with them since the ban as were murdered at Dunblane. You'll never get

CS: Target-limp response to request for club details

2000-09-18 Thread Neil Francis
From: "Neil Francis", [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a similar story to things tried in the past. The UK Shooting Web Ring at http://pages.hotbot.com/sports/ukgunring/index.html was set up by an enthusiast to try and encourage clubs and individuals to bind together. A look thru the

CS: Target-BBC TV Coverage v Sky

2000-09-18 Thread Neil Roberts
From: "Neil Roberts", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Having just watched yet another BBC round up of the Olympics (10.30PM Sunday). A brief mention that Ian Peel won Silver. Yet every other medal winner had an interview, some footage of their competition and a look at their gong. Compare this

CS: Pol-Dump the Pump

2000-09-13 Thread Neil Francis
From: "Neil Francis", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will gladly put up with the whole list of "minor discomforts" that you mention, Minor now - as I say lets see how the people fare when the food runs out on Tesco's shelves. We are already having the 'for the sake of the children/d

CS: Pol-Dump the Pump

2000-09-12 Thread Neil Francis
From: "Neil Francis", [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have been let down by the "democractic" system, so have truckers, and just like us they are protesting. Where is the irony in that? The irony I was referring to is the full support shooters here are giving to the t

CS: Legal-Steed Case

2000-08-31 Thread Neil Francis
From: "Neil Francis", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I spoke to David Steed about this previously, he told me not to tell anyone but the cat is out of the bag now. Er - pardon. What is this supposed to mean - not to tell anyone? Is this the guy we were all waiting the outcome of a court

CS: Legal-Anonymity

2000-08-16 Thread Neil
From: "Neil Francis", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I imagine support for Dave's viewpoint is not soley confined to CS, ask anybody who has reported a burglary, stolen car, vandalism, etc. etc. You mean most people actually support logic like: ::The point is that they did not give

CS: Legal-Pyrodex

2000-08-14 Thread Neil
From: "Neil Francis", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you need a certificate, or a licence, to buy or possess Pyrodex? I think its the same TC as smokeless powder which is a 10 kilo (or is it lbs?) limit isn't it? Someone mentioned a non corrosive black powder alternative a while back.

CS: Target-Pyrodex

2000-08-14 Thread Neil
From: "Neil Francis", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The residue is, however, very corrosive compared to black powder. It depends why you want it, but I use black powder through choice. I shoot originals as well as repro's and I would not use Pyrodex in any of them. (And yes, I have use

CS: Legal-Club Obligations

2000-07-23 Thread Neil
From: "Neil Francis", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do shooting clubs have any obligations to tell the police any changes in membership details - eg personal details such as address changes? - Neil Francis Trowbridge, UK - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I don't think s

CS: Pol-Revolver tribute to shot Beatle

2000-07-17 Thread Neil
From: "Neil Francis", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sculptures to "post modern deities" such as Lennon have no permanent place in Trafalgar Square, I agree - This sculpture should be in Liverpool - the centre of all culture and peaceful experiences in this country. Why shouldn

CS: Misc-Red Dawn

2000-07-11 Thread Neil
From: "Neil Francis", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps he reads The Guardian and takes an academic interest in redneck popular culture. .. And Red Dawn is infinitely preferable to anything by Ken Loach, Alan Parker, or any other of your (doubtless) favourite Lefty social-consci

CS: Misc-Red Dawn

2000-07-10 Thread Neil
From: "Neil Francis", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Incidentally, Red Dawn has grown on me somewhat, and it's not as bad as I'd expected. Implausible maybe, but not stupid. Quite stirring in fact - and the chorus of derision from the Guardian-reading constituency which greeted i