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- From: "Donald R. Newcomb" <dnewcomb@whale.st.usm.edu>
- Subject: Re: No Army Needed( was: Swiss military preparedness?)
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- Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:40:04 GMT
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- From "Donald R. Newcomb" <dnewcomb@whale.st.usm.edu>
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- In article <Bzs8v0.LGz@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Aryk Nusbacher <nusbache@epas.utoronto.ca> writes:
- >Second, the above point implies that standard issue firearms would be
- >kept at home, after the Swiss model. Now, I would trust the Switzers
- >with their five-hundred-year tradition of maintaining combat weapons
- >at home, to give their firearms the attention they'd need. However, I
- >would not trust some cussed, individualistic Anglo-Saxons of the sort
- >found in abundance in North America, to keep their firearms clean,
- >bright and slightly oiled. Some would, but most would turn their gear
- >up for inspection with rust, wear, and filth. And that would pretty
- >much moot the whole idea of having them.
-
- Well, most of the "cussed....Anglo-Saxons" that I know would probably
- turn up with their issue weapons having most of the MIL-SPEC parts
- swapped out for surplus rejects and the good parts substituted into
- their personal weapons. Come to think of it, the Swiss weapons that
- I have seen have almost every part serialized. Probably just their
- sense of tidiness ;-).
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- >Western civilisation developed the armoury for a reason.
-
- Ah, yes. Prime targets.
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- Donald R. Newcomb * Life only admits two states:
- dnewcomb@whale.st.usm.edu * growing and dying. So what,
- newcomb@usmcp6.bitnet * if I've put on a little weight?
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