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    Remington 1740: My Project Begins.

    Heh. Kinda reminds me of the Rutan Boomerang asymmetric plane... http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/transportation/1289166.html
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    Vets and the word, "Gun."

    I love hearing military stories... but "Gun" = "Weapon" = "Mechanical Device + Chemistry Experiment" = "Life-Outcome Determination Machine". I love you warriors, truly I do. I grok that "weapon" is a tiny subset labelled "Intent to deliver harm" of things in the world. Employed in the...
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    Are vests legal?

    For the record, anything equal to or greater than Class IIA is illegal in all parts of the United Kingdom. Unless you're a LEO. Then you get trauma plates and everything.
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    (VA) Man being robbed kills an attacker, police say

    Good Shoot. Let's hope the honourable citizen's mind bears up well under the knowledge. It would be deeply wrong. if this guys successfully and decently upheld his right to life in the face of adversity and felt bad about it. However he found himself remaining armed under the...
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    What do you think would happen if the US government tried to ban gun ownership?

    I think a lot of confiscating officers would suddenly find themselves in "Surrender" situations. A lot of them would also die. Then things would get have the potential to become seriously ugly. Then the government would vilify those defending their second amendment rights as terrorists...
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    Females W/Guns

    I have to say: I cook like a daemon. From my China Syndrome Chilli, straight through to my boef beugignon, I do Nice Things with a pan. I've never had the privilege of cooking for my American friends, but I promise you'll know you've been fed at my table. I make my own chillied pickles...
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    Victim Shoots Robber-VA

    The "mom" sentence is ambiguous. It is an auto-assumption in this day and age to assume the perp's mom said "my boy done nothing' wrong. Re-reading now. Kensler, the shot perp, is the one who's mum is on record as saying her crack-snorting crim of a kid did nothing wrong. Bully for her.
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    U.S. Gov muzzles dissent

    What I find more concerning is "where does one draw the line". If publishing is something that requires a licence, then surely a cheap inkjet printer and a few reams of plain white A4 is going to be next under scrutiny. Though I've been accused of being a worry-wart before.
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    UK Legalises "Maximum Force"

    Mr. Blue Suit gets his pepper spray and his Class IIa. Armed cops are more abundant these days. I wouldn't have too much of a problem with that under other circumstances, but I am concerned about the levels of proper training, and the fact that all these armed policemen come from a...
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    U.S. Gov muzzles dissent

    License... to publish? I beg your pardon? License... let me get this straight... license. To publish. The printed. Word? I'm... I'm trying to get a lock. I am. I swear. The recticle is right there, it's floating, it's yellow, it's blinking, but it's not turning red. License...
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    UK Legalises "Maximum Force"

    You'll have to forgive me for any errors in my statements. I have to go by publicly available media - for example, the large posters in the tube station at Chelsea Harbour saying it's *six* years for posession of a pistol. Also, I have to go with being told by my local army-surplus store...
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    UK Legalises "Maximum Force"

    Yessir. A firearm may be the easiest way to reduce a foe - but the legal right to do so is more important, when one is a civilised, law-abiding, tax-paying fellow, trying to build one's own way in the world. It is now legal for me to reduce my foe. I don't need a gun, sir. I don't need...
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    UK Legalises "Maximum Force"

    Gentlebeings, I assure you that if I catch a burglar in my house, I will not challenge-then-attack, I will assume he's whacked out on PCP and will think I'm a giant mushroom named Godfrey out to comsume his soul, and therefore not amenable to reason. I don't know crap about how much force...
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    UK Legalises "Maximum Force"

    Beer, You're missing the point. We're not allowed guns, basically. Not at all, in any practical home-defense sense. We were restricted to "reasonable force" in subduing burglars, you see. "Reasonable force" basically related to what the barrister had for breakfast. Now we are...
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    UK Legalises "Maximum Force"

    Trapperjohn. Yup. We only just got back the right to hit a burglar over the head with a cricket bat!
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