> If you'd been 70 miles offshore in a sailboat and a large powerboat
 > approached you without hailing or calling on VHF, you'd probably have a
 > different view about carrying firearms on a boat.  This happened to me,
 > and since then, I've had a good long-range rifle aboard when going
 > offshore.  Incidently, the boat only needed a bearing to the Dry
 > Tortugas, having lost their LORAN and not knowing where they were!
 > Perhaps a warning shot across the bow would have encouraged them to pick
 > up the VHF!
I still have the same view... the larger the weapon... the more room they 
give you at the mark ....
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