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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg)
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Subject: Re: Re: Reagan Right, Dave Rubin wrong
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Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 16:46:07 EST
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> Ken Arndt demontrates that there are serial numbers on rifles (I had
> already conceded that point to the first fellow who brought up Quality
> Control; Inventory Control seems far less compelling).  Fine, but 
> he has not yet answered the challenge:
> 
> 	(1) What is meant by the numbers "matching"? and
> 	(2) What is the source of this information?
> 
> I stand corrected on the minor point, and I remain unrepentant on the
> major one.  
> 
> 		Holding a postition slightly bent but quite unbroken,
> 
> 					David Rubin

1)  My guess is that matching numbers means that the numbers on the rifles
suggest that they were once part of the same cache.  For example, if rifles
#57600-57624 and #57673-57690 are in El Salvador while rifles #57625-57672
are in Grenada, then that may be evidence that they were supplied directly
by the Soviets and/or Cubans.  Then again, it may not.

2)  Ken Arndt's source is "Gung Ho" magazine, whose readers are presumably
army types.  Most of its articles are detailed descriptions of weapons
(including nukes in the latest issue!) and acts of terrorism, all with
similarly detailed and/or graphic pictures.  They had a one-paragraph blurb
on the subject which was about as cryptic as Ken's posting, with the
same title (i.e., the title was "Well, Reagan was Right!"), and with no
sources.  I trust it about as much as I trust the National Enquirer.
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

"2*x^5-10*x+5=0 is not solvable by radicals." -Evariste Galois.