You might want to be careful about qualifying superlatives (a bit
rediculous), but I'd really like to take your advice. Some people might
think there can't be such a thing as a gun-toting liberal. But consider my
dilemma: most of my friends are vegetarian pacifists who consider
themselves to be quite "conservative".
I, too, consider it unlikely hat anyone will embark on a major crime
spree armed only with a 1377. But if someone steals mine (unlikely because
it keep it in the aforementioned steel gun cabinet with a triple-latch
lock), pumps it up in his car before entering you place of business and
points it at you, I'd suggest you try to avoid provoking him into squeezing
the trigger. A .177-caliber pellet traveling at between 500 and 600 feet
per second would do a LOT of damage, particularly if the shot is
well-placed.
There is nothing wrong with encouraging/requiring people to think of a
1377 as a lethal weapon. Even my DAisy Grizzly should be handled as if it
were a leathal weapon. But I still haven't tried to find out whether the
Michigan legislature has "defined" my wife's butcher knife as a firearm.
That would make about as much sense!
R.M.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:42 PM, <Brandon.Chase@...> wrote:

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>
> Having to register a single shot air pistol seems a bit ridiculous. The
> whole point of gun registration would seem to be a crime deterrent,
> although the efficacy of such a policy could (and should) certainly be
> debated. That being said, I'd be hard pressed to imagine someone using
> an air gun that you have to load (and pump!) for every shot in a major
> violent crime. It would certainly make for some entertaining
> headlines, however :)
>
> As I've always said, I think the primary factor when it comes to this
> kind of thing is ignorance. As "gun toting liberals", I think we
> sometimes forget how profoundly ignorant our non-gun owning liberal
> friends can be. I recently introduced a very liberal friend of mine to
> shooting, and I can honestly say he knew absolutely nothing outside of
> "guns are dangerous", so I sat down with him, filled him in on firearm
> safety, showed him a few guns and how they work, then we went to the
> range. Three hours later he was buying his first firearm, a Ruger 10/22.
>
> For as long as I've known him (six years), this guy has been vehemently
> anti-gun, but a little education and hands on experience changed that in
> one afternoon. I've done this with several friends and acquaintances
> over the years, and while not all of them got into shooting or ended up
> buying a gun, they've all had to rethink their position on guns and gun
> ownership. I know its slow, but I still think its the best way to fight
> irrational and ineffective gun legislation.
>
> Brandon
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>
> On 04/16/09 11:41, Roger Metzger wrote:
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> >
> > But to say that any airgun IS a firearm is as absurd as to claim to not
> > know what "is" is.
> > Do any of you have any suggestions about how to deal with (rectify)
> > this absurdity?
> > R.M.
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