29erUK (sj@c1944.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 19:13:29 +0100
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>We have also had NARES 'working with EH and the HSE to sort out gunpowder
>regulations for reenactment'
What worries me is their attitude to firearms in general! Shortly prior
to the tawdry vote-grabbing exercise that led to Howard's fireams ban,
they did all they could to distance themselves from the shooting
community. I was present at the 1989 AGM when the motion congratulating
this stance (somewhat bizarrely proposed by a WWII society!) was passed.
Presumably, no-one had heard of the principle of "divide and conquer",
or the Nazi's steady erosion of civil rights under the guise of 'for the
good of the public'.
Every pinned barrel, every petty restriction on a certificate marks a
further decent into an eastern-bloc type of regime, where reenactors (in
this case Napoleonics) were reduced to dropping fireworks into the end
of dummy muskets.
Those that purport to represent us would be better employed getting the
message across to the authorities and public at large that the weapons
of yesteryear do not feature in crime at the dawn of the new millenium,
and the criminals and drug dealers prefer the readily available sawn-off
shotgun or (REAL) Uzi to the Brown Bess, cap & ball colt revolver or
Lewis gun.
When the politically correct lobby, having destroyed target shooting,
turn their attention to the reenacting fraternity, there will be no
sports shooters left to support the reenactors.
-- Stuart K Jarman 29th US infantry Division WWII reenactors (UK)
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