From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:49:33 +0800
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Subject: Re: Responding to Pre-dawn Unannounced Ninja Raids
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On Sat, 20 Jul 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Llywarch Hen writes:
> > You have not had the opportunity to look closely at the business end
> > of a gun.  The hole looks enormous.
> The opening in the barrel of just about every rifle or pistol I've
> looked at seems to be about half an inch or less. Perhaps you have
> been looking at the 18" guns on the battleship "New Jersey"?

     The towed 155's from the ANG unit I was in during college were 
pretty big, but it is awful hard to hit a single person at less than 300 
yards. 
     A 12 guage looks a lot bigger 3 inches from your nose than 3 feet 
away, but I'd rather have a hostile hold it 3 inches from my nose than 
3 feet away. 

     If you don't understand why, go talk to a _serious_ martial arts
type.

Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@smoke.suba.com