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- From: cramer@optilink.com (Clayton Cramer)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Fletchette
- Message-ID: <13321@optilink.COM>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 02:16:11 GMT
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- Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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- In article <9211181018.aa22003@claudius.pica.army.mil>, erudnick@pica.army.mil (FSAC-SID) writes:
- # Flechettes are made of steel, like their cousins nails :)
- #
- # And no they are NOT illegal for civilians, because while the AP bullet
- # bans are materials-oriented, they also specify HANDGUN ammunition. Notice
- # that 7.62mm NATO AP is banned because there are .308 handguns, while
- # 7.9x57 Mauser AP is abundant.
- #
- # Ed Rudnicki erudnick@pica.army.mil All disclaimers apply
-
- However, flechettes are illegal in California. Penal Code 12020(a)
- prohibits "any ammunition which contains or consists of any flechette
- dart..."
- --
- Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
- We could say that Congress spends money like drunken sailors. But that would
- be unfair -- to the sailors. They, at least, are spending their own money.
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