Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!gjk From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Reagan Right, Dave Rubin wrong Message-ID: <302@talcott.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 16:46:07 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.302 Posted: Thu Feb 28 16:46:07 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:44:50 EST References: <716@decwrl.UUCP> <563@fisher.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Lines: 33 Xref: watmath net.politics:7914 net.flame:8652 > 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. --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "2*x^5-10*x+5=0 is not solvable by radicals." -Evariste Galois.