VERN HUMPHREY wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

RJT> TS> A decade of infamy has ended:  The Brady Bill sunset at midnight.

RJT>Nope.  The AWB did...

 VH> Right -- now let's concentrate on getting back to the America of my
 VH> boyhood, when crime was low, and a 16-year old could buy a 7mm
 VH> Mauser rifle through the mail. :-)

It _was_ a different society then,  no question about it.

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