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- From: basiji@stein.u.washington.edu (David Basiji)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: home protection concerns
- Message-ID: <1jp7ceINNefs@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:40:23 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: University of Washington
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- callison@kittyhawk.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison) writes:
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- #In article <JANECZKO.93Jan20222918@csd630a.erim.org> janeczko@csd630a.erim.org (Mike Janeczko) writes:
- ##I recently bought a S&W model 686 (i.e. Stainless steel 6" .357) for both
- ##protection and hunting. I was talking with my father about loads to keep
- ##around the house for protection. He said definetly use factory loads. His
- ##reason was that if by chance you end up killing a perp. with a handloaded
- ##cartridge, the prosecuting lawyer might portray you using excessive force.
- ##His reasoning might be that necessary force could have been carried out
- ##with factory load (i.e. non-maximum loads). This also got me thinking about
- ##the caliber of the gun also being considered as excessive force? Has there
- ##been any cases involving this?
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- #I seriously doubt this; if I remember, I'll check Westlaw and Lexis tomorrow
- #for possible cites.
- #Factory loads are, in point of fact, often more powerful than handloads.
- #Cor-bons are specifically designed to provide high velocities and energies;
- #the PMC factory 240gr. TCSP .44Magnum is by far the hottest pistol load
- #I've ever shot (it leaves the muzzle at 1300fps, 900ft-lbs of energy). (You
- #T/C Contender owners shut up. :-) Quite frequently, people actually load
- #ammo _down_ from maximum loads--it provides better accuracy and makes the
- #gun much more controllable. That's why target loads kick much less than
- #full-house loads; they're specifically downloaded. I can't see the caliber
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- I can see it now..."In short, ladies and gentlement of the jury, the
- defendant was nothing more than a brooding, antisocial paranoid who
- spent his time in his basement perfecting the ultimate man-killer
- ammunition. If we are to believe that he is just a well-adjusted citizen
- who happened to own a gun for self-defense, why couldn't he just go down
- to one of the multitude of gun stores that blight our landscape and buy
- some ammunition produced by professionals and in compliance with all of
- our government's controls and restrictions?"
-
- David "Not really paranoid, but careful nonetheless" Basiji
- UW Bioengineering
- NeRD #3762
- I speak for myself (never my wife).
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