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- From: chuck@eng.umd.edu (Chuck Harris - WA3UQV)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: home protection concerns
- Message-ID: <1jpr52INNo9@mojo.eng.umd.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:42:00 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Electrical Engineering
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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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.
-
- All my spent brass looks the same. How would you determine that the cartridge
- wasn't a factory load? If you point a gun at someone, you damn well better be
- prepared to live with the consequences of your bullet penetrating his body, and
- killing him.
-
- #...
- #Another point my father made that I guess makes sense is that when loading a
- #clip (doesn't apply in my case, at least not yet :-) you should
- #"fingerprint-proof" your bullets. This can be done by loading the clip with a
- #glove on or use a towel when loading. This gives one less piece of evidence
- #tieing you to the gun. It may not help, but why give the prosecutor any kind
- #of edge.
-
- If I were the prosecutor, and I saw that the defendant had wiped his
- fingerprints off of the bullets in the "murder" weapon, the first thing
- I would think of is premeditation.
-
- Chuck Harris
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