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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
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To: goffscalif{at}aol.com [mailto:goffscalif{at}aol.com]
>
> > I note CNN was forced finally to admit they made up one on "Assault
> > weapons"
> > where they basically claimed "assault weapons" were
"more powerful" than
> > "ordinary weapons" and that allowing the Assault Weapon Ban to
> expire would
> > mean you could buy machineguns at the local hardware store.
>
> They could get away with it only because so few people these days
> know the
> muzzle from the trigger guard.  If more people had some basic firearms
> knowledge, they could never have made such a story fly.

Yeah -- I remember one Congresswoman's shocked comment about the AK-47,
"They don't miss!"  I'd like to give her a chance at busting
dinner plates at a hundred yards off-hand and see if she chances her mind.

I once went up to speak to a committee of the Virginia State Legislature.
An anti-gun speaker before me delivered a shocking  address about how
people at a local gun club were shooting guns with "supersonic
bullets."

Fortunately, my turn was next.  I pointed out the .30-06 has a muzzle
velocity about 2 1/2 times the speed of sound -- and was adopted in 1906,
the .30-30, dating to 1895 has a muzzle velocity twice the speed of sound,
and the lowly .22 Long Rifle, dating to 1888 has a muzzle velocity above
the speed of sound.

I told them about the "management letters" old Pennsylvania
riflesmiths would write for their customers, advising them to "load
her until she cracks" -- that is breaks the sound barrier.

And finally wound up telling them rifles were invented in Germany about
1500, and while I can't swear to it, I bet those old German gunsmiths knew
about "load her until she cracks."
>
> I grew up with guns in the front closet.  Not a one ever jumped
> up and shot
> anybody, and no one ever locked them up either.  But then we had
> something
> better than a lock - the knowledge that *every* gun is *always*
> loaded.  When you
> know that, you don't accidentally shoot someone.
>
My daughter grew up with guns in the house, and knew they were all loaded
-- until they proved otherwise.  They also knew that a couple of them were
really loaded and stayed that way.
>


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