🚀 go-pugleaf

Dances with Poultry wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 12:21:03 +0000, support <support@webworlds.net>
> wrote:
> 
> >Dennis Hornibrook wrote:
> >
> >> >Part of the rigmarole of getting a firearms certificate in the UK. They
> >> >check you are a member of a recognised gun club and check the security
> >> >of the weapon.
> >>
> >> Is this a random thing?  Or part of your license renewing thing?  Or
> >> something of the kind?
> >
> >No, not random, they let you know they are coming...
> ><hides large rizla packet behind sofa>
> 
> I Can't help but imagine that kind of government intrusion into my
> home offensive.

Sure, but then it's an offensive weapon they've come to check isn't it.

> >> I have a rather small cabin.  I understand moose bites can be very
> >> painful, even lethal.  You have a license for your moose?
> >
> >It's a free born moose, it doesn't need a license
> 
> With that many moose running around loose it's just a matter of time
> till some rouge goes postal.  I think mooses should be controlled.
> =>:^o

You accusing me of having an out of control Moose?
That's a highly trained Moose I'll have you know. One word from me.....
and it does whatever it wants.

> 
> >> >If I know my history the Philidelphia constitution (Which the later US
> >> >constitution was largely based on) was co-written by Tom Paine, who
> >> >wrote The Rights of Man and Common Sense.
> >>
> >> >Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best
> >> >state
> >> >is but a necessary evil, in its worst state an intolerable one;"
> >>
> >> It's the job of every patriot to keep a watchful eye on the
> >> government.  Accept nothing on blind faith, and question everything.
> >
> >Too right
> 
> <thud>

Hey, careful how you put that gun down.  ;�)

> Wave hello to my co-workers in Yorkshire for me willya?

<Waves>


> 
> >> I use a 30-06 at 400 yards for light duty.  If I have to punch a hole
> >> in a particularly heavy piece of paper I use my 300 Weatherby.  I'm
> >> only good for one shot though.  Then I've got to go have stitches over
> >> my right eye.  I've shot it exactly 4 times and have 3 parallel scars
> >> to show for it.
> >
> >Move the telescope forward a bit?
> 
> You have to maintain a certain eye relief.  Any farther back and the
> optics are screwed.  The problem is with a 300 Weatherby I have to
> grip the stock with my left hand.  Makes for inaccurate shooting but
> at least it doesn't pop up and smack me.

My Weirach has recoilless action. Well nearly, I put an overstrength
spring in. Punches holes through tin cans at 50 yards now 8�)

> 
> >> If the world were full of Ghandi's we wouldn't need government either.
> >
> >That's worth thinking about then.
> 
> Right, so let's kill and eat anyone that's not like Ghandi.

Err, wasn't he vegetarian?
> 
> >> >Your government will twist our arm to house it's early warning systems
> >> >tho'.
> >> >Just like they did when we housed their nukes for them. Living in the UK
> >> >sometimes feels like being on an American aircraft carrier.
> >>
> >> Sorry, I'll send over some Dramamine (sp?).
> >
> >I'll stick to herbal remedies thanks.
> 
> Hops?

That's one of 'em. God grows grass, Man brews alcohol; who do you trust?

> 
> >> >The new missile defence system which will
> >> >only protect the US but uses bases on other nations soil for the warning
> >> >system,
> >>
> >> True, but it's also true they work as global deterrents.  So long as
> >> there is *someone* available to re-act then it's less likely that it
> >> will happen.
> >
> >'ollocks! The aggressors will try to take out the warning systems first.
> >So once we're toast, the US will react? Whoopsie-do!
> 
> I don't understand.  You have a problem with that?

I live 4 miles from a major US Spy base....


> >" 'Cos a fire in the street ain't like a fire in the heart,
> >  And the truth of it is my friend that this could really start
> >  On any street in any town, in any place if any clown decides that
> >  Now the time is right, to fight for some ideal he thinks is right,
> >  And if a million more agree, there ain't no great society,
> >  'Cos it applies to you and me, our country isn't free,
> >  If all you can ever be, is just a lousy janitor,
> >  unless you uncle owns a store."
> >
> >-- Frank Zappa  'Trouble coming every day' 1967 --
> 
> With all the clarity of dream.

"Help I'm a cop!"

--
Roger Tattersall