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- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!smoke.brl.mil
- From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Accidental Discharges
- Message-ID: <19387@smoke.brl.mil>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 13:19:11 GMT
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- Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab, APG MD.
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <9211171851.AA04010@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov> weed@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (daniel weed 283-4162) writes:
- #It is said there are two kinds of people: those who have had ADs, and those
- #who will. I would like to add a third category - those who will not.
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- Very good points about AD vs. ND!
-
- #I invite anyone to elaborate and pass on their "laws" for safe gun
- #handling.
-
- There's a basic firearms safety video starring Jeff Cooper that is very
- good about making the essential points (besides the two rules you cited
- there was one more, to the effect "keep your finger off the trigger
- until you're ready to fire"). It also showed other gun handling hints,
- cleaning, etc. and makes an excellent introduction for the beginner.
- Sorry I don't remember the exact title but I found it some time ago in
- the instructional section of a local Blockbusters video rental store.
-
- #... anyone on the net care to comment on the Davis' safety?
-
- Generally carrying an unholstered gun in a purse is stupid (if the
- trigger doesn't get pulled, at least the safety could be flipped), but
- I've seen it done. (Usually the gun is loose in an inside pocket.)
-
- #By the way, carrying a concealed firearm is illegal in TX, so I'm sure she
- #was spanked real hard after getting out of the hospital.
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- Assuming she didn't have a permit, which I am told are as hard to get
- in Texas as they are in Maryland. Some 10 years ago it was fairly
- common for young single women to carry a small gun in their purse in
- Texas, regardless of any carry laws. I guess they figured that nobody
- would catch them since generally police didn't search purses without
- darn good probable cause. An airline gate security officer recently
- told me that they catch quite a few guns coming through the scanners
- in purses whose owners had forgotten they had them (or so they say).
- I think that sort of casual attitude contributes to what were labeled
- NDs; responsible gun owners keep track of their guns, always.
-
- I don't know what percentage of Texas women go around armed today, but
- given the increasing level of violent crime (judging by TV news there)
- it wouldn't surprise me if it were a large fraction.
-
- Last Christmas season the fad among Houston criminals was to follow
- elderly well-to-do citizens home from shopping and mug them in their
- own driveways. I don't know yet what this year's fad is but it could
- be carjacking. The criminals grow more audacious every day as the
- citizenry become progressively disarmed by the lawmakers. To me the
- most shocking aspect of Hennard's Killeen Luby's massacre was the
- absence of any ability of a restaurant full of central Texans to
- resist -- as recently as a decade ago I suspect the situation would
- have been quite different.
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