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From: "David J. McClurkin" <djmcclur@ai.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 89 15:02:58 EDT
Subject: Cathy Demos
Distribution: world
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Put my name down for two copies, please. Dave McClurkin Fri, 14 Apr 89 09:24:30 EDT NFrom: sorsby@hc.dspo.gov (Charlie Sorsby) NMessage-ID: <8904141324.AA13676@hc.dspo.gov> NOriginal-To: firearms@cis.ohio-state.edu NSubject: Re: Bans & prices NNewsgroups: list.firearms NDistribution: list NSender: list-admin@ai.toronto.edu NApproved: list.firearms@mail.ai.toronto.edu N N> They'll have as much luck banning hand/shot/assault guns here as we N ^^^^ NWhere is here? <__________________________________________/ N NAnyway, I hope you are right but suggest that you don't become complacent. N N> had permitting concealed weapons. Every year, legislation is proposed N NIf you ever lose *any* of your firearms rights, they will be as difficult Nto regain as it is to obtain the right to concealed carry... Be alert! N N> in both directions; the bills almost always die in committee. Net effect N> is that the gun & self-defense laws have changed very little in many N> years. N> I attribute the sky-high prices to the same motivation that is driving N> gas prices through the roof - greed. They have a good excuse to raise N NNo question about that! N N> prices for a while, and stick it to a few paranoid suckers. In time, N> when the demand drops to near-zero, the prices will go back down. Gun N NMaybe, but I'll be very surprised if they drop *all* the way back. Same Nas gasoline. And remember the coffee shortage of a few years ago? As I Nrecall, the coffee growers, supposedly had a bad season and coffee was Nscarce. Before that the price was somewhere around a dollar a pound. NIt quickly shot up to something like five or six dollars a pound and Nthen when the "shortage" was over, the price declined to about three Ndollars a pound. What is it now? About three dollars a pound, I think. N NI'm betting that, barring a ban, that is exactly what will happen with Nthis class of firearms. Too pessimistic? We'll see. N N> prices, that is; I doubt the gas prices will ever go down. N> J.Baker. N NCharlie Sorsby "I'm the NRA!" N crs@lambda.lanl.gov N sorsby@hc.dspo.gov N sorsby@hi.unm.edu N