[lit-ideas] Re: Gun Control
- From: "Lawrence Helm"<lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:37:43 +0000
A handgun or rifle round consists s of a shell for containing the powder, the
bullet which goes down part way into the nose of the shell, and the primer.
The firing pin hits the primer exploding the powder in the shell which forces
the bullet out the barrel of the rifle of handgun. The shell itself is
reusable. It can be reused several times.
A zip gun can be a pipe with a slot to hold the bullet in place, and a way to
pull a nail back with rubber bands so that when you let go of the nail it
strikes the primer forcing the bullet out of the pipe. A zip gun isn't very
accurate.
Lawrence
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From: "JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, Apr-18-2007 7:33 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Gun Control
"Zip guns"? "Reloading"? I don't understand -- after you fire a shot, you can
"re-use" the bullet? But doesn't the bullet explode when shot?
Julie Krueger
blissfully ignorant re. guns
On 4/18/07, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Exactly right. Anyone who does a lot of shooting probably has reloading
equipment. When I was working at McDonnell Douglasm a former naval officer &
I used to go to the Long Beach Police Pistol Range every Thursday. Ammo gets
expensive even if it doesn't cost $5000 a round; so we did our own reloading.
I also reloaded shotgun shells during a time when I was into bird hunting.
Yes, it's easy to do.
Although I think gun-control a bad idea for several reasons, as a practical
matter there doesn't seem any good way to eliminate either guns or ammo. One
can buy bullet molds and make ones own bullets. All one needs is the lead
which is readily available. Shells of most kinds can be reused. The items
that must be purchased are gun-powder and primers. I don't know how one could
make smokeless powder or primers, but if Iran can make nukes, I imagine some
highchool chemistry major could probably figure out how to make smokeless
powerder and primers.
And thern there is always black-powder. People could revert to black-powder
and flint.
As to the guns themselve, zip guns can be made rather simply.
Lawrence
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From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, Apr-18-2007 5:41 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Gun Control
> tax the ammunition so that every single bullet costs $5000.
you forget that people can reload ammunition. it's fairly easy to do.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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