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    Re: Handgun Death Rate —Scott Arthur
   (...) And how many illegally held guns were at one point were in the hands of Joe Public legally? How many were obtained due to poor storage on the part of Joe Public (eg under the bed/pillow)? Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Handgun Death Rate —Tom Stangl
   (...) Probably too many, but you handle that by making the punishment for losing track of a gun tougher, you don't ban guns when there are already millions out there. -- | Tom Stangl, iPlanet Web Server Technical Support | Netscape Communications (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Handgun Death Rate —Scott Arthur
   (...) I'd handle that by not giving idiots guns. Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Handgun Death Rate —Duane Hess
   (...) How do you diagnose, let alone enforce that? (...) -Duane (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Handgun Death Rate —Scott Arthur
   (...) Test them in some way. Inspect how the store their guns (this happens in the UK). Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Handgun Death Rate —Duane Hess
   (...) What would you use as criteria for testing? (...) Governing *who* is allowed to own a firearm is different than governing *how* a firearm is stored. How are inspections conducted? Are they random, or planned? Does the governement need (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Handgun Death Rate —Scott Arthur
   (...) There are rules are regulations which must be met before a gun can be owned. 100% of those wanting to own a gun have there storage provision checked. A medical certificate is also required. Once one has a gun, I am not sure what checks are (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Handgun Death Rate —Duane Hess
   (...) I'm interested in what requirments must be met before I could buy a firearm in your country. (hypothetically speaking) Let alone what I would have to do to "properly" store such a weapon. This also does not take into account the fact that the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Handgun Death Rate —Christopher L. Weeks
     (...) I don't know what their process is like, but I think that long arms must be allowed because it seems they have a plague of dangerous foxes that must be wiped out at all costs. If I understand the deal, you just can't have handguns. Chris (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         Re: Handgun Death Rate —Jason J. Railton
      (...) No, we have a highly efficient method of dealing with that problem that involves lots of wealthy folk charging around on horses after a pack of hounds. Cruel, but I can sit back and let them have their fun. It's the ridiculous arguments that (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         Re: Handgun Death Rate —Scott Arthur
     (...) No handguns. Shotguns for farmers, farm workers etc. Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Handgun Death Rate —Scott Arthur
   (...) There is an overview of Uk gun law here: (URL) A (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Handgun Death Rate —Duane Hess
   (...) Holy typos Batman! There are more typos on that site than I like to see. Overall though it has a lot of information. Unfortunately, it doesn't really answer my questions. Could you take another shot at providing me with answers? (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Handgun Death Rate —Scott Arthur
   (...) Storage: (URL) than that I have no real idea how to get a "firearm certificate". Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Handgun Death Rate —Duane Hess
   (...) Thanks, that was the type of thing I was looking for. -Duane (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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