From: Jon Shoop (shoop19@brick.net)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 22:27:31 PDT
Point well made and taken...thanks Dave..
Jon
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From: <ddoyle9570@aol.com>
To: <shoop19@brick.net>; <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Military Only Zone-Response
> In a message dated 10/9/2002 9:09:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,
shoop19@brick.net writes:
>
> > Hold on dude.....all my armor was issued with
> > weapons.......all of them. The
> > issued items are listed in the operator manual
>
> Jon,
> You and Steve both pointed this out to me, thanks. I learned something
new (any day one doesn't is a wasted day).
>
> A buddy of mine said I wasn't making clear my position. I will summarize.
>
> In my opinion, a live weapon is great at a shoot or a reenactment....a gas
firing 50 is nothing after using a real M2HB.
>
> BUT, at a Military Vehicle event (convention, rally, show), there is no
place, or justification, in my mind, for a LIVE weapon or ammunition. A
dummy will fill the rifle rack just as well, and safer. For the spectator
genuinely interested in the weapons, invite then to the next reenactment,
gun show, or your home.
>
> Are the majority of guys who have live weapons safety conscientious? Of
course, or their life expectancy wouldn't be very long. But this is an area
where there is virtually no margin for error.
>
> In my example should the kid who grabbed the gun and began shooting been
disciplined? Of course, and he was. But if it had been a live weapon, and
live ammo, that wouldn't have mattered much.
>
> I used to think that the idea of disconnecting battery cables was
ridicules. I pulled the engine stop, put the transmission in neutral, that
should be adequate. Then one day at a display my buddies and I had wandered
over to the food tent, when I heard one of my trucks roar to life. A kid in
the driver's seat. Thankfully it was in neutral.
>
> Had it been in gear, the lecture I gave him and his dad about not touching
other people's stuff wouldn't have mattered much to those standing in front
of the truck. Now, undoing those cables isn't so much work after all.
>
> Non-firing weapons at shows fall in the same category to me...relatively
cheap insurance.
>
> Regards,
> David Doyle
>
>
>
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