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- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!vitalink.com
- From: jhultman@vitalink.com (Jeff Hultman)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: the spirit of rec.guns
- Message-ID: <199301230031.AA04091@mail-relay.Vitalink.COM>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 01:55:41 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Vitalink
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- Good points.
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- #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.
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- Exactly!
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- I was watching a PBS special a year ago on Fidel Castro. During this special
- on Cuba/Fidel there was a short clip of an interview with Fidel in his apartment shot
- in black and white during the early sixties. The camera scanned the apartment
- displaying the modest living conditions of the small sized apartment. Up against
- the wall leaned an FN/FAL. As the camera panned past the propped up rifle the
- BBS news reporter commented on the "INTRUDER "RIFLE". I feel this term
- counters the connotations surrounding the term "assault rifle". I do agree
- that it is time to start referring to semi-autos with a "different look"
- as assault rifles.
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- Jeff H.
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- Jeff H.
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