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Subject: [Leica] guns, photography, and the american psychosis
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Thu Oct 19 18:40:49 2006
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Never seen a 30-30 semi auto.?

GREG LORENZO wrote:

>Philippe Orlent writes:
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>>Send me a copy and I'll promote it in Europe. Vast market for this 
>>subject: we hardly can imagine having the need for a gun imbedded in  
>>one's culture. So for us, this is pretty exotic.
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>Location, location, location.
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>You live in the part of the world where you can't spit without hitting 
>someone. Even in the countryside.
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>In parts of the US and certainly western Canada people own land tracts 
>outside of cities and towns that can run to 10's, 100's and in extreme 
>cases 1,000's of square miles (the old King Ranch in British Columbia for 
>example). My Aunt and Uncle owned, farmed and ran cattle on a modest 13 
>Sections (256 ha or 640 acres/Section) of land in south central Alberta. My 
>Uncle served in the RCAF during the war and owned and used all kinds of 
>firearms. Using them as a tool when necessary, coyotes chasing cattle 
>during calfing season, gophers overrunning pasture land, foxes/coyotes in 
>the chicken coupe and to hunt for food during hunting season. He also 
>practised, a lot, to keep up his skill level.
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>To people living in New York, London, Berlin, etc. a 10 guage shotgun or a 
>semi-auto 30-30 makes no sense, unless they hunt, target shoot, etc. People 
>that find that 'odd' or 'unacceptable' are generally pretty uninformed on 
>how other people live. 
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>If I lived in Iraq right now, I'd not only own, but I would carry at all 
>times more than one gun. Not much call for a gun in Calgary though.
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>Regards,
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>Greg
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Replies: Reply from gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO) ([Leica] guns, photography, and the american psychosis)
In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] guns, photography, and the american psychosis)
Message from philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent) ([Leica] guns, photography, and the american psychosis)
Message from gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO) ([Leica] guns, photography, and the american psychosis)