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- From: PA142548@utkvm1.utk.edu (T. Archer)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: home protection concerns
- Message-ID: <PA142548.871.727976341@utkvm1.utk.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:50:12 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: University of Tennessee
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <C1CG68.JIJ@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> callison@kittyhawk.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison) writes:
- #Ahhh...but, if you've been purposely loading down, to get a more accurate
- #_target_ load, that paints another picture entirely--along the lines of
- #"I used what I had." It also provides you with another plus: if you've
- #been developing target loads, that presumes the fact that you've been
- #down to the range quite a bit, which intimates that you talk to the
- #people there--relevant character witnesses. Who among us (who reloads)
- #hasn't asked another reloader what kind of load he uses, and what his
- #results are? If you're developing a load, and you're a steady customer
- #of a range, they're going to be very good witnesses to the fact that you
- #were devloping the load as a part of your legitimate, sporting hobby, not
- #with the intention of dosing out lead-deficiency treatment.
-
- But this "morbid facination with engines of death and destruction" still
- makes you a "gun nut."
-
- #
- #But you're right; we know better, and we're not the jury--although, by
- #rights, a handloader should be tried by people who actually understand
- #handloading and shooting. You know, that "jury of your peers" stuff...
-
- This is a mis-conception. You are not entitled to a "jury of your peers"
- over here, but a jury of "12 good men and true." A jury of your "peers" is
- a phrase from english common law meaning that peasants would not wind up
- haveing to judge nobles and nobles wouldn't get to judge peasants.
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