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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (2154)	10/11/2000 12:40:16 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

I'd only add one thing: hand carried and operated. So tripod mounted 20mm with armor-pierce full jacket, is probably not OK? I dunno. Can you still own and operate one of these. Might be a tad expensive for plinking anything smaller than a Mack truck engine block.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (2154)	10/11/2000 10:51:04 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

So - a belt-fed .50 machine gun firing ball ammo is an allowed gun. A belt of incendiary or HE ammo for that gun is "out of bounds". An AR-15 rifle shooting dumb slugs is OK; the grenade launcher is OK; grenades for said launcher are a no-no. I've been shot at with a belt-fed .50, and it's not much fun. A hint: don't bother hiding behind a car. Or a cement-block wall. By your calculus a grenade launcher with flechette rounds would be ok; I'm not sure I like the idea of that. Imagine somebody walking into a crowded place... I do think that limiting the potential damage that one loony can inflict is a legitimate concern, and for this reason I'm ambivalent about semi-autos with large magazine capacities. They provide no great advantage for simple defense, but a very large advantage indeed to someone who wants to dispatch as many random targets as possible before having to reload.