[89404] in Cypherpunks
Re: Clinton's Bigger Gun Ban
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Tue Nov 4 02:35:02 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03102800b0825444fa4b@[207.167.93.63]>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 22:50:49 -0800
To: "CypherPunks List" <cypherpunks@algebra.com>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 8:14 AM -0800 11/2/97, Tim May wrote:
>One of the more interesting images I ever saw was a photo in one of the gun
>mags of a friendly meeting in the U.S. between Eugene Stoner, principal
>designer of the AR-15 (the M-16 in its military version) and Mikhail
>Kalashnikov, whose name needs no further explanation.
>
>I suppose tree-hugging peaceniks would be aghast at a meeting between these
>two merchants of death. I, being an antigovernment type, was nevertheless
>impressed.
As a tree-hugging, peacenick, gun lover, I would have loved to hear the
conversation.
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