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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncrhub2!ciss!law7!military
- From: Urban F <urf@ki.icl.se>
- Subject: Use of small arms stored in homes
- Message-ID: <Bzs8Jw.Kzv@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: None. I speak only for myself.
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:19:08 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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- From Urban F <urf@ki.icl.se>
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- The Home Guard, whose very reason for existance is their short
- reaction times, could not function if they didn't keep their
- equipment at home.
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- Most soldiers probably defend their country best by quickly
- going to their places of duty. Thusly an attacker has a strong
- interest in keeping them from doing so, or at least delaying
- them. Small sabotage units will not engage trains in firefights,
- regardless if those aboard are armed or not, rather they'd blow
- up bridges etc. Having rifles with you on the train does not keep
- the bridge from beeing blown up: The bridge is better off beeing
- protected by the local Home Guard units.
-
- I can think of only a few situations where it might help you
- reaching your unit if you're already armed, but I acknowledge
- there are some circumstances where it might be useful.
-
- When you reach your unit, some time might be saved by not having
- to go through the process of issuing personal equipment, but if
- this time is significant compared to the travel time, I cannot
- say.
-
- If some soldiers cannot reach their units, it is better if they
- have at least rifles than nothing. They are at least trained
- soldiers, and can augment other units, if perhaps not in their
- specialities.
-
- One aspect that speaks against storing equipment at home is that
- if you don't have it inspected often, you can't be certain that
- everyone will care for it well.
-
- As for light weapons in "civilian" hands; No matter how good a
- shot you are, acting singly, without previous military training,
- you have a very small chance of doing something of military
- significance.
-
- Only way these "civilian" weapons might be put to good use is by
- a resistance organization led and trained by proffessionals,
- where they at least have to be augmented by heavy demolition
- equipment. (Unless you don't specialize in just killing key
- personell.)
-
- (Why "civilian"? Well, as soon as you use them against the enemy,
- you and your weapon becomes "military", provided you do so "under
- responsible leadership", I think the term is. You DON'T have to
- be dressed in uniform, neither does those in charge of the
- "leadership".)
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- Urban Fredriksson urf@icl.se
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