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- From: cramer@optilink.com (Clayton Cramer)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: SKS Slam fire
- Message-ID: <14034@optilink.COM>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 01:55:28 GMT
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- Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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- In article <1993Jan22.000901.28728@igor.tamri.com>, donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
- # In article <9301202032.AA13947@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
- # fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix) writes:
- # #They said that he one-handedly operated the bolt, the rifle began
- # #firing, etc. The SKS appears to have been sitting on the table
- # #in front of the man. The nearest I can figure (having shot at the
- # #range in question) is that he pulled the bolt and let the butt of
- # #the rifle press against his upper leg or hip. I can't imagine why
- # #he though this would be safe to do, though.
- #
- # A fellow gun lover from Santa Cruz read in the paper there that the
- # guy killed at Los Altos Rod & Gun had dinked around, trying to make
- # his SKS fire full auto...that it did but didn;t STOP when he let go of
- # the trigger.
- #
- # Anyone else hear anything like that?
- #
- # don
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- I've read the same in the paper at the time the incident happened.
- I've since been informed by sources with more detailed knowledge than
- the media that this isn't true.
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- Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
- "When freedom destroys order, order will destroy freedom." -- Eric Hoffer
- Not a goal, just a statement of reality.
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