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- From: jheath@fieldofdreams.npirs.purdue.edu (Jim Heath)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: home protection concerns
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.221448.27154@CERIS.Purdue.EDU>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 03:40:17 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- #From article <19594@smoke.brl.mil>, by gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn):
- #
- # In article <C18z76.DMz@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> callison@kittyhawk.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison) writes:
- # #Factory loads are, in point of fact, often more powerful than handloads.
- #
- # True, and the original question raised the wrong objection. The usual
- # legal issue is said to be that the prosecution can make you out as
- # "obsessed" with guns if you "roll your own deadly ammo", as part of
- # painting a picture of you as bloodthirsty and looking for an excuse to
- # kill/wound. Of course we know better but we're not the jury.
- #
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- Hmmmm, what if you use factory ammo in a defense shooting, but the
- prosecutor, etc. know that you reload your own ammunition? BTW, is the
- prosecution one should worry about here, or a civil suit lawyer?
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