From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >The problem with Section 1(4) is that it says available in >significant numbers. Well no firearm is available in significant >numbers except maybe .22s and 12 Gauge shotguns. What is >a "significant number"? I suspect we will know shortly. > >Steve. Steve, So, you want a definition of "significant numbers"? Well, that's easy: Everything that wasn't banned the last time, and will be the next time. Only the next time there won't be any money to give out, or the powers that be will just give you a rain check that will be conveniently ignored. Of course then there will be a significant number of irate prior firearms owners. -- =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= Liberty: Live it . . . or lose it. =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= ET -- Well if the judge uses logic, then I would say only firearms that have been available in single digits could be not "significant numbers" because there are so few legally possessed centrefire rifles in this country that any particular subset of them would be a very small number indeed. There are some 350,000 Section 1 firearms held on FACs, the overwhelming bulk of which are .22 rifles. Exclude them and you're down to around 150,000 already. If you say 0.1% of that is a "significant number" that's only 150 guns. If you exclude .22, .38/357, .44, .223, 7.62mm and 12 Gauge shotguns from the 350,000 total I reckon it would be a pretty small number of guns, nearly all of which would be calibres like .270, .243 and 7mm-08. The thing with .50s is that your average .50 Sharps is an antique, and antiques don't require licenses. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics