Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site bunker.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!bunker!garys From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: response to Gun Control advocates Message-ID: <642@bunker.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 17:29:27 EST Article-I.D.: bunker.642 Posted: Wed Jan 2 17:29:27 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 04:40:37 EST References: <> <261@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: Bunker Ramo, Trumbull Ct Lines: 20 > Handguns do not represent the majority of private guns in Israel. > Rather, they are guns like rifles and automatic pistols. In fact, handguns > are strongly controlled. > > A handgun is a small, easily concealable, deadly weapon whose only > purpose is to kill people. They should be controlled or banned. > /Jeff How odd. According to /Jeff, an automatic pistol is not a handgun, and, even more odd, apparently he approves of owning an automatic pistol, but not a handgun. Three questions immediately come to mind: 1. What is the precise definition of a handgun? 2. What is the precise definition of an automatic pistol? 3. Why should these two weapons be treated differently, legally? Gary Samuelson ittvax!bunker!garys