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    Jim McArthur is offline Frock coat wearing, riverboat dwelling, southern gent
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    Quote Originally Posted by harry mac View Post
    When the ban came along I had a smallish collection of firearms with which I could be lethal at about 50yds and dangerous to probably a couple of hundred given the capabilities of the average handgun cartridge. I now have a safe full of firearms that I can be lethal with at close to a mile and dangerous with at even longer range. If the ban were repealed there's no way I'd get rid of the rifle collection I now have, but I would restart my pistol collection.
    But I'm now much less of a threat to society because my mind isn't being poisoned by proximity to pistols.
    I never took up BP as it would only ever have been a substitute for what I had to give up. I saw rifles as a whole new venture.
    I could say that was funny, if it weren't so sad, Harry.

    It looks as though you found a good way to compensate, though.

    Jim
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    "Nasty, noisy things, revolvers, Count. Better stick to air-guns." Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone

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    harry mac is offline You can't say muntjack without saying mmmmm
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    Ooooh yes, there's nothing quite like working up a sweat trying to achieve 20 rds a minute with a SMLE. Makes you grin..A lot.
    The South of England has 2 good things, the M1 and the A1. Both will take you to Yorkshire.

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