RW> 23 May 03 20:55, Dana Booth wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW> The real pisser is that the state DOJ has been keeping
 RW> firearm sales
 RW> records for about 10 years.  Once you're on that roll, or
 RW> you register one
 RW> of the assault weapons on their list, you're subject to
 RW> searches for other
 RW> weapons, anytime they feel like it.

People can block a pier in Oakland, and they figure that's their right.
They force public schoolkids to celebrate the homosexual community, illegal
Mexicans collect all sorts of welfare, and college professors show porn
videos in their classes while blocking ROTC activities. And all of them
claim to have the "right". Yet, when normal, honest citizens
engage in an activity that's not only legal, but which the authors of The
Constitution specifically addressed as a "right", these people
are treated like criminals by their own government. Yeah, that is a
pisser...

 RW> Hopefully you don't have a Feinstien or a Boxer...

Patty "Osama is a good guy" Murry, and Maria Cantwell. Murry has
earned the reputation for being quite dim, and was elected because whoever
the people in Seattle vote for, the rest of the state is stuck with. She
was a Dem running against a Republican guy. You do the math. :) Cantwell is
an even worse example of this. She was a Dem running against a Republican
guy with tons of clout, Slade Gorton. And now, they're all wondering, what
happned to the steady stream of Federal funds? Why's Boeing moving? Well,
they made our bed by voting in two junior senators with no clout, now we
have to sleep there...

 RW> I have two .380s that I like to carry. They're a whole
 RW> lot lighter than
 RW> the 1911.

I've heard the term, "social purposes", in referring to carry
guns, i.e., "A .380 is too small a caliber for social purposes."
I couldn't disagree more. When I was a patrol deputy, I carried a Smith
L-frame .357. I don't recall anyone carrying a .38, that being the weakest
we were allowed to carry, and some carried .41's and .44's. If a cop gets
into a shootout, the perp knows that the cop is either going to kill him or
arrest him, he knows the cop will chase him down, and is far more likely to
put up some very determined return fire. It's therefore adventagous for the
cop to carry something that will put a quick end to the firefight with one
hit. An armed citizen, otoh, has something completely different in mind, in
that all he or she wants to do is use the firearm as an aid in removing
themselves from a dangerous situation. One hit with a .380 may or may not
kill the bad guy, but it has given the good guy time to split. .380's,
being small and easily concealed, for the most part, under even light
clothing, are an excellent carry gun, and especially so for women, since
they're so easily controlable.

 RW> I've seen a .25 scare off a potential rapist. He turned
 RW> white as a sheet
 RW> when the gal shoved it under his nose...

I was talking to a guy at a gun show once... He told me that more people
have been injured with .25's than any other caliber. I thought that was
kind of odd. He continued, "... yeah, everytime someone gets shot with
a .25, they get mad and beat the crap out of the guy that shot them!"
:) Sure, fun to say, but... My in-laws have this neighbor, their daughter
shot herself with a .22 revolver in the gut. She died about twenty minutes
later. She told her parents before she died that she knew she was going to
die and was so scared, because she had only wanted some attention. No one
dies of a .22 bullet, after all.

--- Ceska Zbrojovka