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  1. Newsgroups: sci.crypt
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!Firewall!ad-29!jkapson
  3. From: jkapson@ad-29.Naitc.Com (John Kapson)
  4. Subject: Re: PGP and real criminals
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov20.184944.17854@Firewall.Nielsen.Com>
  6. Followup-To: talk.politics.guns
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  10. References: <1992Nov20.092807.13613@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1ej1fsINN5ad@morrow.stanford.edu> <palmer.722276991@news.larc.nasa.gov>
  11. Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 18:49:44 GMT
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  14. In article <palmer.722276991@news.larc.nasa.gov> palmer@icat.larc.nasa.gov (Michael T. Palmer) writes:
  15. [snip]
  16. >Hmmm, an interesting point.  But how do you restrict access to tools that
  17. >they can construct themselves?  Sure, it is illegal for a convicted felon
  18. >to own (or fabricate) a firearm, but the only reason they don't all do it
  19. >is because it takes expensive milling machines and considerable talent.
  20.  
  21. Actually, as evidenced in Afghanistan, it only takes hand tools and very
  22. little talent.  Felons find it easier to buy them on the black market.
  23. But this is more appropriate for t.p.g., so followups are directed there....
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  26. |      John Kapson      |                                               |
  27. | NRA               ILA |  "Fear a goverment that fears your guns."     |
  28. | jkapson@nis.naitc.com |                                               |
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