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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!mimsy!pica.army.mil
- From: erudnick@pica.army.mil (FSAC-SID)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: M1911 operation
- Message-ID: <9212221629.aa29326@claudius.pica.army.mil>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 23:47:51 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Lines: 46
- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- Peter Cash writes:
- #In article <9212211415.aa16761@claudius.pica.army.mil> erudnick@pica.army.mil (FSAC-SID) writes:
- #
- ##As to the "made in Poland" comment, the Germans acquired the tooling for
- ##the VIS following the invasion, and liked the design so much that they
- ##produced over 300,000 of them, including some at Steyr, with the only
- ##changes being made for ease of production. Let me guess - they were stupid
- ##too, right?
- #
- #C'mon, Ed--everyone knows that the Germans lost WWII because they used the
- #inferior 9mm Parabellum caliber in their pistols, instead of the awesome
- #.45 ACP! Just ask Col. Cooper!
- #
- #Well, it really shouldn't be necessary, but... 8^)
-
-
- Insult me to your heart's content - Lord knows everyone else does :)
- Mock what I shoot: call my Glock "combat Tupperware", my AR-15 a "mouse
- gun", and the 9mm a "minor caliber".
-
- I might take affront a bit, and respond in kind, but I won't take it too
- seriously in any event.
-
- However, two posters who responded to my original posting felt the need
- to include ethnic slurs based on the Polish origin of the VIS. One
- even included a Polish joke having nothing to do with my posting. This
- IMHO is going too far, and belies the alleged "kinder, gentler" nature
- of this newsgroup.
-
- My grandfather was in the Polish Army that these individuals felt the need
- to deride. He used a silly ineffective Polish weapon, a 7.9mm Reczny Karabin
- Maszynowy Wz 28. In the US this same weapon in .30 was called the BAR. He
- lost part of his left hand to a Russian bullet, and spent the better part
- of 6 years in POW camps, first Soviet and then German. If he was an officer
- he would most likely have been murdered at Katyn with the other 15,000 by
- the Soviets in 1940.
-
- So please excuse me if I don't find Polish "humor" funny.
-
-
-
- Ed Rudnicki erudnick@pica.army.mil All disclaimers apply
- Protect the Second Amendment - boycott Ruger products
- Geordi: "...it's like the laws of physics went right out the
- window." Q: "And why shouldn't they? They're so inconvenient."
-