Fw: Moscow surplus and seized weapons policy

["Wayne H Beebe" <whbeebe@turbonet.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Wayne H Beebe <whbeebe@turbonet.com>
To: Ry Jones <rjones@moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: Moscow surplus and seized weapons policy


> Ry
>
> I do not appreciate my messages being picked apart the way you did.
>
> In the gray market of the Gun Fairs many weapons are going fairly cheaply.
> The ones that demand high prices are antiques and assault type weapons.
If
> you consider inflation for the last 20 years you can get a good gun for
> relatively much less than a generation ago .   I just looked at Gart's
> advertisement for a hunting rifle at $339.  Twenty years ago the gun would
> have sold for $200.  That is a mark up of 70% when nearly everything else
> has doubled in that time
>
> As far as the suits against manufacturers and suppliers are concerned,
that
> is what the tobbacco industry used to say too.
>
> I would not consider Rwanda as a example of the rest of the world.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ry Jones <rjones@moscow.com>
> To: Wayne H Beebe <whbeebe@turbonet.com>
> Cc: <vision2020@moscow.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 1:01 PM
> Subject: Re: Moscow surplus and seized weapons policy
>
>
> > At 08:27 AM 9/18/99 , Wayne H Beebe wrote:
> > >Our country does not have a shortage of arms; rather, an oversupply.
> >
> > That's why the price of guns is coming way down, right? because the
supply
> > exceeds the demand?
> >
> > >Fact is, while the MPD may have a reputable dealer, after he/she sells
> them
> > >there is no control over them.  There is antidotal evidence that guns
> siezed
> > >by the police find themselves again ending up in wrong hands.
> >
> > Anecdotal evidence suggests anything you like. The UCR from the FBI
> doesn't
> > seem to mention a huge swell in ex-police weapons ending up in the wrong
> hands.
> >
> > >With the advent of taking gun manufacturers and suppliers to court for
> > >liablility to supplying guns, I am suprised the MPD did not take that
> into
> > >consideration.
> >
> > These suits will end up in the dust bin of history, where they belong.
> >
> > >Once again this past week our nation has witnessed another terrible
> shooting
> > >in what would be considered a safe sanctuary in many parts of the
world.
> We
> > >need to do everything we can to bring this in control.  The destruction
> of
> > >these arms, though a small drop, is a start.
> >
> > So if churches are "sanctuaries" in other parts of the world, why were
so
> > many Rwandans who ran to chuches killed there? With machetes? Hmmm?
Should
> > we ban machetes? Almost all of the deaths in the Rwandan genocide
campaign
> > came from machetes.
> > --
> > "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will
> > look upon the Act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."
> >    -- Gandhi
> >
> >
>