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+ B. IPSC Information
+ C. Air Rifle Field Target Competition
+ D. DCM Information
+ E. Cowboy Action Shooting [INLINE]
+ F. Postal Matches [INLINE]
+ G. A Brief Guide to the Sport of Pinshooting
+ H. Bullseye FAQ
+ I. Highpower Rifle Competition [INLINE]
+ J. Police Pistol Combat (PPC)
+ K. Skeet Shooter's Homepage (WWW Only!)
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* IX. Competitive Information
+ B. IPSC Information
o 1. Basic Introduction to IPSC
o 2. The IPSC FAQ (85 KB)
[Left] [Right]
* X. Miscellaneous
+ A. Can Leaving a Magazine Loaded be Harmful?
+ B. The Hell-Fire Trigger System
+ C. Lubricants & Solvents
+ D. Miscellaneous Ballistics Information [INLINE]
+ E. Female-Specific Issues Relating to Firearms
+ F. The Points System of GCA'68
+ G. Firearms Related Computer Software
+ H. How to Become a NRA Certified Firearms Instructor
+ I. Literature List
+ J. Body Armor Information
+ K. Gunsmithing Information [INLINE]
+ L. Book Reviews
[Left] [Right]
* X. Miscellaneous
+ C. Lubricants & Solvents
o 1. Homebrew Recipies
# a. Ed's Red
o 2. Information about commercially available lubricants
and solvents
# a. Prolix
# b. TW-25B
o 3. The Case Against Petroleum Based Lubricants
* X. Miscellaneous
+ G. Firearms Related Computer Software
o 1. Ballistic Master for Windows
o 2. The CURT Shooting Simulator
o 3. Coppock's Advanced Internal Ballistics Model (demo
version)
o 4. Microsoft Access Load Database
o 5. On Target! for Windows
(WWW Only!)
o 6. Recreational Software Inc. [INLINE]
* X. Miscellaneous
+ I. Literature List
o 1. Book Reviews by Henry Schaffer
o 2. About Massad Ayoob, popular Firearms Author
o 3. Police Survival Shooting - Video Review
[Right]
* X. Miscellaneous
+ J. Body Armor Information
o 1. Body Armor Reference Information
o 2. Bullet Proof Vest Companies
o 3. Summary of Technical Aspects
o 4. Kevlar: Processing, Structure, Properties, Vest
Selection, and Care [INLINE]
[Left] [Right]
* X. Miscellaneous
+ K. Gunsmithing Information
o 1. How is a Barrel Fitted to a Centerfire Rifle?
o 2. Feed Ramp Polish: Instructions and Results [INLINE]
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* XI. Contact Information
+ A. Gun Rights Organizations
+ B. Merchandise
+ C. Internet Gun Resources (Non-Commercial)
+ D. Firearms Schools
+ E. Literature Reviews Available at flubber.cs.umd.edu
+ F. People To Contact if You are Curious About Firearms
+ G. The Net FFL List - People Who Offer FFL Services
+ H. The Police Bookshelf
+ I. The rec.guns Phone Book
[Left] [Right]
* XI. Contact Information
+ A. Gun Rights Organizations
o 1. NRA
o 2. ILA
o 3. 2nd Amendment Foundation - WWW Only!
o 4. Other Gun Rights Organizations
o 5. State Rifle Associations [INLINE]
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* XI. Contact Information
+ B. Merchandise
o 1. Bullet Proof Vest Companies
o 2. Mail Order Gun Supplies
o 3. Firearms Periodicals
o 4. Commercial Gun Sites on the Net
# a. Firearms Manufacturers
# b. Firearm Related Manufacturers
# c. Gun Shops, Gunsmiths, & Mail Order
# d. Other Firearms Sites
[Left] [Right]
* XI. Contact Information
+ D. Firearms Schools
o 1. Listing of Schools
o 2. 1995 Gunsite Calendar
o 3. 1995 Thunder Ranch Course Schedule
o 4. 1996 Insights Training Center Schedule (WWW Only!)
o 5. Thunder Ranch Course Report
o 6. Lethal Force Institute (LFI)
# a. Classes Available through the Lethal Force
Institute (LFI) [INLINE]
# b. LFI-I The Judicious Use of Lethal Force [INLINE]
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* XII. Accuracy
+ A. Pistol
+ B. Rifle
+ C. Miscellaneous
[Left] [Right]
* XII. Accuracy
+ A. Pistol
o 1. General Accuracy Tips
* XII. Accuracy
+ B. Rifle
o 1. Why Should I Bed My Rifle?
o 2. How do I Epoxy Bed a Rifle?
o 3. Why is Belted Brass Less Accurate?
o 4. Scopes & Boresight Tricks [INLINE]
[Left] [Right]
* XII. Accuracy
+ C. Miscellaneous
o 1. Scope Ring Lapping
# a. What is Scope Ring Lapping?
# b. How do I Lap Scope Rings?
o 2. Two Shooters, Same Rifle, Different Point of Impact
o 3. Quick Detachable Rings and Mounts
o 4. What is a Minute of Angle (MOA)
o 5. Group Size Analysis Methods [INLINE]
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* XIII. Safe and Secure Use of Firearms
+ A. Safe Use of Firearms
+ B. Security and Firearms
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* XIII. Safe and Secure Use of Firearms
+ A. Safe Use of Firearms
o 0. Gun Safety
# a. Basic Gun Safety (section I.D.)
# b. Revised Rules of Gun Safety [INLINE]
# c. Common Causes of Accidental Discharge and
Failure to Fire [INLINE]
# d. Introduction to Range Commands [INLINE]
o 1. What About Children and Guns?
# a. Introduction
# b. Child Gun Safety FAQ
# c. Kids and Guns at Home
o 2. Taking Responsibility
o 3. Armed and Groggy
o 4. Jeff Cooper's Rules of Gun Safety
o 5. Hazards of Lead Exposure
# a. Introductory Article
# b. ASLET Lead Article
o 6. Hearing Issues
# a. Hearing Protector Comparisons
# b. Review - Peltor Tactical 7-S Stereo Hearing
Proctector
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* XIII. Safe and Secure Use of Firearms
+ B. Security and Firearms
o 1. Gunsafes
# a. General Information
# b. High End Gun Safes
# c. Safe Manufacturers and Models
o 2. Trigger Locks
o 3. Keeping the Piece
o 4. The Handgun Box
I. Introduction
B. FAQ Organization, etc.
by David Putzolu (dputzolu@cs.uiuc.edu)
This is the FAQ for rec.guns. It is organized in a hierarchical
outline form with a list of the topics at the beginning. This FAQ is a
compilation of the writings by various of the people in the rec.guns
forum. If you have any questions that the FAQ does not answer, please
post a message to rec.guns and you will find lots of helpful, friendly
people willing to reply. If you feel that the FAQ contains incorrect
FACTUAL information, (example: the number of cartridges a Beretta 92FS
standard magazine contains) please contact the maintainer, David
Putzolu, at dputzolu@cs.uiuc.edu. Include the section that the error
is in as well as the context of the error. If you disagree with some
of the arguments in regards to areas that are a matter of opinion
(example: is a 9mm or .45 better for defensive use?) or find the
arguments to be incomplete, you must provide a complete re-write of
the area in question, which, in any case, may or may not be included,
depending on the judgement of the maintainer and possibly other
individuals. Your other option, of course, is to post an article on
rec.guns on the subject, and if you find sufficient support to change
the FAQ then it will be changed.
I. Introduction
C. Legal Disclaimer
by David Putzolu (dputzolu@cs.uiuc.edu)
The contents of this FAQ and the entire FAQ is simply a compendium of
the writings of many of the knowledgable people on the rec.guns forum.
No part of this FAQ should be viewed as legal advice. The reader must
take full and complete responsibility for the laws regarding firearms
in his jurisdiction as well as proper safety precautions involving
every facet of firearms and related components. Any and all of this
FAQ may contain errors, and it is the responsibility of the reader to
check with his local law enforcement authorities as to the laws which
dictate how, when, why, and where he may use firearms in any
situation.
Note that each article in this FAQ is the intellectual property of its
author, who retains the copyright to it. Permission is explicitly
given to distribute this FAQ in its entirety via the Internet and
other computer networks. Permission is explicitly denied to publish
this FAQ in any other medium, including but not limited to CD-ROM,
books, and magazines. In order to gain permission to reproduce any
part of this FAQ in such a medium the person/organization wishing to
publish said part of it must get the individual permission of each and
every author whose writings he wishes to publish.
_________________________________________________________________
_Note for those who are potential authors:_ I am perfectly happy to
grant anonymity to authors of FAQ articles. Furthermore, I am willing
to accept articles from anonymous remailers or any other anonymizing
method. I do _not_ keep any record of original authors when they
request anonymity.
I. Introduction
D. Basic Gun Safety
by Christian J. van den Branden Lambrecht (vdb@ltssg3.epfl.ch)
Well I guess everybody knows all this perfectly but it is always good
to review these things even if it looks like the first pages of every
gun instruction manual. Please remember that nothing here should be
seen as legal advice. Everything is disclaimed.
Before buying or even handling a gun, one has to realize that it is
something different than any other object in the sense that a gun can
cause serious injury or death. Handling a gun makes you responsible
for what happens with it at that time. If you own a gun, you are
undertaking full responsibility for safety and security at all times.
This means that you have to ensure that you or other people using your
gun with your consent handle it properly. You have to make sure that
nobody can steal or use your firearm without your consent.
_The actual rules are:_
Always treat a gun as if it were loaded until you visually check it
out.
Never point your firearm in any direction you do not intend to shoot.
In particular, never point your gun in the direction of other people.
Always have your gun pointed in a safe direction.
Before handling a firearm, understand how it works.
Do not assume that a gun is secure, i.e. some guns have excellent
security systems to prevent accidental firing (e.g. when dropped),
others don't.
Do not put your finger on the trigger unless you are ready to shoot.
Keep your firearm unloaded when you are not using it.
Never pass your firearm to anybody until you have checked that it is
unloaded.
If you have to carry your gun loaded, always point it in a safe
direction (e.g. the ground). Never carry your gun with the hammer
cocked.
You should store your firearm and ammunition in separate locked
places. Pay particular attention that no child has access to the gun.
Be sure of your target and what is beyond it.
If you own a gun for home defense, most of these safety rules will be
violated. However in some countries, home defense can be important.
You will then probably store your gun loaded in a place that you can
quickly reach if you feel you are threatened. In this case, be really
sure that it is unaccessible to children. Buy then the safest possible
gun for this purpose.
When choosing a handgun for home defense, revolvers are a good choice
because they are much safer than semi auto pistols. If you are not
very familiar with handguns or do not practice a lot, you should go
for a revolver. Their drawback is lower capacity. Among semi autos,
Glock are good defense guns due to their safety mechanism, making them
much safer than any other semi auto, and their high capacity.
[_Maintainer_: Note that there is a more comprehensive section in V.
Defensive uses of firearms that can be found later in the rec.guns
FAQ. Furthermore, a good overview of purchasing a handgun can be found
in the article 'I.I. A Handgun Primer for Novices' as well as in
section 'V.E. Picking a Self-Defense Firearm/Ammunition. Finally,
there is an entire section of this FAQ just devoted to Gun Safety and
Security - see section 'XIII. Safety and Security']
I. Introduction
F. The most common FAQ on rec.guns:
I am thinking of buying a gun... what should I buy/do?
by the Moderator of Rec.Guns (magnum@cs.umd.edu)
You will get much advice from others on the net who read your post.
But what seems to be the best advice we can give you, in my opinion,
is to get enough info so you can make an informed choice yourself.
This is not only a consumer issue, but also a safety issue. Before you
buy, I strongly encourage you to take a basic firearms safety class,
such as the NRA Personal Protection course. I suggest the NRA class in
particular because it is generally of very high quality, at
comparatively low cost (e.g., my wife and I, who are both certified
NRA instructors, offer this at our cost of materials); many classes
offered commercially, on the other hand, offer far less comprehensive
a syllabus, and charge much more. The NRA class not only covers the
basics of operation in a firearm, but safety issues in use, storage,
transportation and cleaning. We also bring in both a lawyer and an
officer to discuss both legal and practical issues related to use of a
firearm in self defense. Its a great way to get a lot of questions
answered!
In general, we encourage people to take this course *before*
purchasing a firearm, since it can help you make up your mind about
even *whether* to purchase. But also, by being more informed about use
and operation, you can't help but be a better consumer when you go
shop. Many people find that some firearms felt comfortable in their
hand while they were absolute novices; but once they learned the
proper way to handle the firearm, other models or configurations
become preferred. Finally, by getting hooked up with other
knowledgeable shooters (who take or teach the class) you can often try
out many different types of firearms, to help you decide which you
like. You wouldn't invest in a car without a test drive; don't invest
in a firearm you've never driven either. These same people can help
you find safe and economical places to shoot, that is important to
help you stay safe and proficient with the firearm if you choose to
buy.
Please feel free to ask all the followup questions you like; safety is
that important to us here. Also let us know of your experiences, and
give us feedback on how to best help the next novice who inquires.
Welcome aboard -- stay safe --
_MODERATOR, rec.guns_
I. Introduction
G. Why should I join the NRA?
by Don Baldwin (donb@tamri.com)
Dear fellow shooter,
I asked to write this part of the FAQ because I thought that having a
liberal Democrat advocate joining the NRA would make a point regarding
our firearms rights and the preservation thereof: that we're all in
this together and that we had all better do as much as we can do
protect those rights, NOW!
The NRA is a very controversial organization in some circles and has
taken a lot of heat from both sides of the gun debate. Some
pro-gunners are contemptuous of its compromises, while gun control
advocates call it inflexible for NOT compromising. Whatever your view,
it is a sure thing that if the NRA did not exist today, we would now
be living under gun laws as bad as those in Great Britain and similar
countries. "Needs-based" licensing, registration, arbitrary bans on
whatever is called the criminals' "weapon of choice" by those seeking
to make easy political points at the expense of law-abiding citizens,
storage requirements that make defense use practically
impossible...these are the laws we would almost certainly be living
under today, if the NRA did not exist.
Since becoming active in the area of gun rights, I have read a bit
about some of the charges made against the "inflexible" NRA...that
they oppose all gun control laws, that they specifically opposed laws
banning "cop killer" cartridges. The fact is that the NRA proposed an
Instant Background check as a better alternative to the Brady Bill's
waiting period but that proposal was turned down by the gun control
advocates, despite the fact that a background check could block some
sales of guns to criminals and waiting periods could not. I have also
found out that the NRA _supported_ the law banning "cop killer"
bullets, once that law was refined to the point where it would not ban
ordinary hunting cartridges.
Aside from their political advocacy of gun rights, the NRA also
provides a number of valuable community services: gun safety materials
and classes, shooting competitions and criminal justice reform policy
suggestions that would punish violent criminals HARD.
Today, the media and opportunistic politicians are attacking gun
rights and the NRA as never before. Please join the NRA today and help
make sure that they do not get their way!
_Don Baldwin_
_________________________________________________________________
_[Maintainer: Go directly to the NRA Web Page, or call the NRA
Membership Division at (800) 672-3888.] _
I. Introduction
H. I Don't Have FTP Capability - can I use Email to get FAQ Articles?
by Lance ?, Relayed by Dave Aronson
If you have e-mail access to the internet, you can get access to any
ftp site via e-mail from these two 'ftp via e-mail' servers:
* ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
* ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu
Here's a help file (on teetot.acusd.edu, as
/pub/Beelzebub/FTP_via_Internet_Mail).
How To
Receive Documents
from an
FTP Archive
via Internet MAIL
I have had several requests for documents from the archive at:
flubber.cs.umd.edu
from people that DO NOT have anonymous ftp access.
There is a server at:
ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
that can accept "batch" ftp requests from you and then return the documents bac
k
to you via internet mail.
The general way to communicate with this server is as follows:
mail ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
Subject:
.
.
.
quit
To get a list of commands and some information about this service:
mail ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
Subject:
help
quit
Let's say that you wanted to get a list of all the files available in the FAQ
directory on flubber:
mail ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
Subject:
connect flubber.cs.umd.edu
chdir /rec/FAQ/
dir
quit
Suppose you wanted to get the following files from my archive at
flubber.cs.umd.edu:
/rec/faq/FAQ1
/rec/faq/rgFAQ.tar.Z
do the following:
mail ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
Subject:
connect flubber.cs.umd.edu
chdir /rec/FAQ
get FAQ1
get rgFAQ.tar.Z
quit
After a while you should get a response similar to this:
From: "ftpmail service on ftp-gw-1.pa.dec.com"
To: lwb@cs.utexas.edu
Subject: your ftpmail request has been received
We processed the following input from your mail message:
connect flubber.cs.umd.edu
chdir /rec/FAQ
get FAQ1
get rgFAQ.tar.Z
quit
We have entered the following request into our job queue
as job number 746315939.01678:
connect flubber.cs.umd.edu anonymous - ftpmail/lwb@cs.utexas.edu
reply lwb@cs.utexas.edu
chdir /rec/FAQ
get FAQ1
get rgFAQ.tar.Z
There are 463 jobs ahead of this one in our queue.
You should expect the results to be mailed to you within a day or so.
We try to drain the request queue every 30 minutes, but sometimes it
fills up with enough junk that it takes until midnight (Pacific time)
to clear. Note, however, that since ftpmail sends its files out with
"Precedence: bulk", they receive low priority at mail relay nodes.
Note that the "reply" or "answer" command in your mailer will not work
for this message or any other mail you receive from FTPMAIL. To send
requests to FTPMAIL, send an original mail message, not a reply. As
shown in the header of this message, complaints should be sent to the
ftpmail-admin@ftp-gw-1.pa.dec.com address rather than to postmaster,
since our postmaster is not responsible for fixing ftpmail problems.
There is no way to delete this request, so be sure that it has failed
before you resubmit it or you will receive multiple copies of anything
you have requested.
There is no way to ask for only certain parts of a file to be sent. If
you receive output from ftpmail that seems to be missing some parts, it
is likely that some mailer between here and there has dropped them. You
can try your request again, but chances are fairly good that if it is
dropped once it will be dropped every time.
There is no way to specify that your request should be tried only during
certain hours of the day. If you need a file from a time-restricted FTP
server, you probably cannot get it via ftpmail.
Ftpmail was written by Paul Vixie at the DEC Western Research Laboratory
and at the DEC Network Systems Laboratory, from 1989-1993.
-- Ftpmail Submission Transcript --
>> Connect to flubber.cs.umd.edu as anonymous with -
>>> ftpmail/lwb@cs.utexas.edu
>> Will chdir to before I do anything
>>> else
>> get FAQ1
>> get rgFAQ.tar.Z
>> Done - rest of message will be ignored
>>> checking security of host `flubber.cs.umd.eduedu'
>>> host `flubber.cs.umd.edu' has IP addr [128.8.128.99]
>>> host `flubber.cs.umd.edu' is ok
-- End of Ftpmail Transcript --
etc...
Please refer to the man pages on ftp for more information on ftp commands.
--
David M. Putzolu I don't speak for anyone but myself
dputzolu@teleport.com http://www.teleport.com/FAQ/RecGuns.html
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