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From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson)
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Subject: Re: Re: response to Gun Control advocates
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Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 17:29:27 EST
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> 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
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