-=> Quoting Tom Goodman to Wayne Thompson <=-
 WT> People are ingenious.  If they are denied "ordinary" weapons,
 WT> they will make use of what is available to them, and figure out
 WT> the most deadly ways of using even the most trivial items...
 WT> I recently made a comment on another echo concerning the use of "field
 WT> expedient weaponry", and said that what the average pissed-off American
 WT> could come up with in the way of "kitchen table" weapons if he was 
suddenly
 WT> thrust into a civil war situation boggles the mind.
 TG> Boy that's for sure.  Did you know that if you followed King
 TG> David's lead, got about 4 feet of leather shoe string with a pocket in
 TG> the middle, and used a few good sized ball bearings, you can hurl that
 TG> thing at a velocity approaching Civil War Rifle Balls?  It's true.  I
 TG> tried it.  Far too dangerous to encourage.
You know, I've always wanted to know how to do that.  The mechanics of the
construction, and the control of the delivery.  Perhaps I could get some
detail? Here, or netmail (GLENN AMS @ 1:373/9).
TG> Maybe we could have a substitute weapon of the week thread.
I have always enjoyed my blowgun that I got when I was just a wee bit
of a thing...well, a teenager, anyway.  And gee, I never used it to
destroy property or innocent people.  I guess that I was just backwards.
Glenn Ams
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