BL> I think I agree with them, although I've never used a pump
 BL> shotgun.

 BG> What, you agree that it's mad, or you agree with the ban on
 BG> them? If the latter, it's completely fucking insane to ban
 BG> 3-shot pump shotguns. 

  I agree with banning pump-action shotguns.

 BL> The idea is to ban all weapons that a non-skilled loony cna use
 BL> to do great damage to people in an urban situation. The pump
 BL> shotgun fits that profile, doesn't it? 

 BG> Nope. At 100m, a shotgun is next to useless, but at the same
 BG> distance, a 7.62mm SLR is just sighting itself in. There's a
 BG> fucking HUGE difference. 

  The problem is that a pump action shotgun was used at Hoddle Street
and proved to be effective.

 BL> Its only good point is that it is limited to 5 shots (8 with
 BL> special magazines), and slow to load.

 BG> For some years now (and I think this applies in Oz as well),
 BG> pump shotguns have had their magazines altered so that they can
 BG> now only accept 3 cartridges (and the older 5-shot ones had a
 BG> dowel put in the mag to do the same thing. They take about the
 BG> same time to pump as a b/a takes to chamber a new round, but
 BG> they're much slower when it comes to actually reloading the
 BG> magazine. 

  The last I heard, they were selling conversion kits to increase the
capacity from 5 to 8. Why are they converting from 5 to 3?

 BL> Did you see your "honest citizens" in the Queensland "Gun
 BL> Owners Association" last night? The ones who were willing to
 BL> lead the revolution against the communist homosexual plot to
 BL> disarm us? Some of those are going to do time, Bill.

 BG> Yeah, it was such a massive footshot that I'm beginning to
 BG> wonder if that fuckwit wasn't an anti-gun lobby plant. I'm
 BG> absolutely convinced that the so-called "death threats" which
 BG> Borbidge, Sheldon, et al have received have been made by
 BG> anti-gun types in order to discredit the pro-gun lobby. 

  A hall full of anti-gun plants pretending to be crazy gun-nuts? 
What a clever plot! How about the rally at Gympie that called for 
blood in the street? Was that another anti-gun beatup?

  You must see by now that a large proportion of these gun-crazies 
are genuinely psychotic. I feel sorry for the guy who fronts the
Shooter's Association. He has been left legless by their so-called 
"loony fringe" who look more and more like the main body of shooters 
all the time.

 BG> And I for one flatly refuse to sleep here without a weapon
 BG> underneath the bed, so that every man and his dog can walk in
 BG> and shoot, rob, or rape my family. Fuck that. 

  I am sorry you feel so insecure.

 BG> As far as I'm concerned, it is my basic human right to be able
 BG> to protect myself and my family from predators, and if I need a
 BG> gun for that, so be it. 

  Predators are a real worry... I suppose you mean that alien who 
nearly got Arnold Swartzenegger. It was lucky he had an SLR.

Regards,
Bob
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