Thu May 26, 2022 10:31 am
#1912665
wrt the gun topic
I have often been struck on visits to the USA, especially in Southern states by the number of outlets specialising in guns and ammo. At a pilot fly-in in the mid-West I was invited to the house of a pilot friend of my host in rural Indiana. It was at the time of the Beltway sniper killings. The subject came up in conversation and it was obvious that my new friend had good knowledge of weapons and even identified the regiment that the sniper must have been in to use such a gun. Out of curiosity I asked some questions and he pulled out a couple of similar weapons from under the sofa on which I was sitting and explained to me in some detail how they worked and could be converted to automatic fire. He claimed to have over 200 guns in the house.
Another Southern friend told me that everyone he knew had a hand gun in the glove compartment of their car. I realised that legislation was not going to have much effect, despite the fact that hand guns are only useful for killing people and most people think that automatic weapons should not be sold to the general public.
In France members of gun clubs must be registered with the police, but it does not stop drug gangs acquiring lethal weapons, most of which I believe originated in ex-Jugoslavia. After WWII, the authorities were worried about the numbers of weapons supplied to the resistance and stashed away in barns here and there. These stories are still whispered about today.
Simon
I have often been struck on visits to the USA, especially in Southern states by the number of outlets specialising in guns and ammo. At a pilot fly-in in the mid-West I was invited to the house of a pilot friend of my host in rural Indiana. It was at the time of the Beltway sniper killings. The subject came up in conversation and it was obvious that my new friend had good knowledge of weapons and even identified the regiment that the sniper must have been in to use such a gun. Out of curiosity I asked some questions and he pulled out a couple of similar weapons from under the sofa on which I was sitting and explained to me in some detail how they worked and could be converted to automatic fire. He claimed to have over 200 guns in the house.
Another Southern friend told me that everyone he knew had a hand gun in the glove compartment of their car. I realised that legislation was not going to have much effect, despite the fact that hand guns are only useful for killing people and most people think that automatic weapons should not be sold to the general public.
In France members of gun clubs must be registered with the police, but it does not stop drug gangs acquiring lethal weapons, most of which I believe originated in ex-Jugoslavia. After WWII, the authorities were worried about the numbers of weapons supplied to the resistance and stashed away in barns here and there. These stories are still whispered about today.
Simon
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