Gun raffle fails to raise eyebrows in US

ABC Online (AU) ^ | 22 February , 2004 | HAMISH ROBERTSON/Lisa Millar

[Springman]

Taste in firearms changed over the years. When I lived in Detroit, I thought a .357 would be great, Dad had the shotgun. Now I would like a shotgun. But as I have posted before, I slept as well as I could on that hot night in Aug, with my .357!!

BTW where do you live in W.PA.
My Dad comes from the Uniontown area.

[Travis McGee]

All civilized nations understand that only trained professionals in the military and the police need firearms.

[Hot Tabasco]

Your raffle sounds mighty entising (sp?)(For some reason, spelling escapes me now) but your tag line kinda bothers me...... I don't know whether to buy your tickets or shoot you!

[Mulder]

I think that Americans are adequately armed. A UN survey on small arms released over the summer showed that Americans are the most heavily armed civilian population in the world. We have between 86 and 92 guns per 100 people, approaching one gun per person, and the next most heavily armed country is Yemen, they have 40 weapons per 100 hundred people.

Come and take them, b!tch.

[GeronL]

18-80 sounds good to me, although the Militia Air Wing may need tighter age restrictions.

[Hot Tabasco]

I've also got several tickets for a steer to be given away March 5th.

If I win it I don't think it will fit in my Honda Del Sol. Well, maybe if I take the top off but it will be a close fit.

Then again, since I live in a condo association, I'm not allowed to have pets over a certain size.

I know, if I can get the thing up here, I can put a set of fake reindeer horns on its head and tell the city folk in the neighborhood that Santa left one of his reindeer here in the complex because it was sick and needed some TLC! Yea, that should work!!!

[Thumper1960]

Yeah.

It's amazing. 1 million hunters in Penn's Woods and no "carnage".

Who'd a thunk it!

[GeronL]

I was kidding about the chuckwagon!

18-80 would be fine with me.

[BykrBayb]

My point exactly! You would pass the qualification, and choose a hunting rifle, right? Anybody in it for the Kool-ade or gay marriage license isn't likely to qualify.

[AnAmericanMother]

Can it be a Weatherby composite stock in .375 H&H, please?

Thank you. ;-)

I am permitted to use my dad's .348 Winchester Model 71, but I'd like something with just a little more "Oomph" when bears are around. (My dad still swears by his Model 71 as The Original Bear Medicine, though.)

[Badray]

I'm just north of Pittsburgh, but I'll be heading down to Uniontown next month for a fundraiser for Arlen Specter's opponent.

My tastes in firearms have changed too.

I went from not caring about them to wanting them all.

[Badray]

I just heard of a 58 year old Marine Reservist being called up for duty. I guess that means we'd have to cut the fly boys off a bit sooner. LOL

[An Old Man]

" just heard of a 58 year old Marine Reservist being called up for duty."

How come the kids get to have all the fun?

Semper Fi