Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I lived in England, I was invited by a gun club member to join a target practice session. I was told that permits for pistol ownership were up to the local police, who could just decide that there were too many guns in their territory and would issue no further permits. In view of that tight control of firearms, I was absolutely appalled by the behavior of the people. They would emerge from the cars, swinging their pistols like a bunch of cowboys, something you wouldn't do in the U.S. In fact, in Chicago, back during WWII, a student heading for the University target range, openly swinging his pistol so as not to violate concealed carry laws, was told by a cop to wrap it in a newspaper in the future while carrying it. On the target range, they did not seem to be following any strict range safety protocols. I say again, I was appalled. Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you. On Oct 18, 2013, at 11:06 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > Actually, I can understand the fascination, and I recognise that shooting > can be a sport--after all, a flavour of it (skeet) is even in the > Olympics, I think. > > When I was in my late teens in Denmark, I sometimes went with a friend to > a shooting club in our hometown and fired some rounds of target practice. > I just used a borrowed pistol, but the people who were really into the > sport did own their handguns. BUT?they never left the club. Each member > had a kind of safe deposit box there, and the gun and ammo were kept > there. They never left the premises of the club. This was logical since a > handgun has only two purposes: to shoot target practice, which one did at > the club; or to kill other people, which is not allowed. So there was no > need to take the gun out of the club. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > On 19 Oct 2013, at 06:08, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Sonny, >> It is very difficult to get one's head around this "need" when one has >> not even touched a gun in the whole 61 years of one's life, and never >> really felt the need to touch one, either. Cultural differences, I >> guess, but from my perspective this is one I cannot understand the >> need at all. I am totally against hunting animals for sport as well, >> so that accentuates the divide..... >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Jay, >>> Times have changed and so have I, but I've owned a Walther P38 (WWII) >>> and a Walther PPKS (James Bond's pistol). I rarely fired either of >>> them, >>> almost always at our family farm. >>> >>> I did not own them for protection; I truly was fascinated by the >>> mechanics. >>> >>> I traded one for the other, then sold the PPK when I needed to pay some >>> bills. >>> >>> I now own three firearms; a shotgun, a 22 rifle and a 22 pistol. I've >>> not >>> seen any of them for several years, and the last time we used them was at >>> the range, (I think I posted those pix) >>> >>> I'm pretty ambivalent about the issue when it comes to small arms like I >>> own. I really don't understand, and get aggressive when the machine is >>> very automatic and has a clip with a multitude of bullets. I don't know >>> why anyone needs that, (surely not hunters). >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman > Blog: > http://www.nathansmusings.eu/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >