Todd Sullivan wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 TS> /Huh!/ Bad no more ugly gun ban!  What'cha gon', what'cha gon,
 TS> what'cha gonna do,
 TS> when Roy J. Tellason and VERN HUMPHREY come for you?

 VH>> Well, if guns are a problem in this country -- they're the ones who
 VH>> created it.  And they did it for money.

 RJT> Just for money?  There's gotta be more involved in it than that.
 RJT> Their attitude that "guns are yucky" for example...

 TS> Not just guns, but certain kinds of guns.

 TS> One thing I noticed while watching some of the old cops &
 TS> robbers-type TV shows was confirmation of something I read in
 TS> either G&A or an NRA publication:

 TS> The crooks generally used autos while the good guys made do with
 TS> revolvers. The crooks used Thompsons; the good guys used BARs, if
 TS> they had autofire capability at all.

But private eyes carried .45s...    :-)

 TS> That held through the '70s (Hawaii 5-0) until Miami Vice came
 TS> along, IIRC. 

I can't say I've ever really taken much notice of that sort of thing,  over
the years.  Not that I've watched that much tv anyway.  There are a bunch
of shows over the years that have become embedded into popular culture, 
and when somebody uses one of those to make a reference I just don't get
it.  

I remember some comment on the tv the other day about some show that (I
gathered) was relatively popular.  She was surprised that I'd *never*
watched it,  not at all.

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