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- From: gus@prism.gatech.edu (gus Baird)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: the spirit of rec.guns
- Message-ID: <81293@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 14:08:35 GMT
- Sender: pete@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <19585@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
- #
- >In article <9301210053.AA12733@scorpio.ic.cmc.ca> keith@scorpio.ic.cmc.ca (Keith de Solla) writes:
- >-I've been thinking, can we start calling 'assault rifles' something
- >-better, such as 'service rifles'. That is what they are, after all.
- >-Yes, its fun to type 'Evil Assault Rifle {tm}', (I do it), but we
- >-may not be helping our cause.
- >
- >How about "militia arms", which is pretty accurate.
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- For simplicity, clarity, and a little nostalgia, "army rifles"?
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