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Hi, nice to hear from you. Oh! yes, I'm extremely jelous. Maybe we could set up a web cam and a remotely controlled contraption so I could fire the gun in you garden remotely
Nah! there is nothing like feeling the guns recoil in your hand
I think ouraparent freedom to purchase handloading/reloading supplies without much interference, is more down to the States lack of knowledge than any type of willingness to assist shooters.
We only touched on the main points of American history at school. People here who know what (roughly) happened out there, tend toside with "The American patriots". Our rulers were basically robbing you and giving nothing in return, not even a vote. People, ordinary *non-land owning people
here, didn't actually get the vote untillway afteryou did, the mid 19thC in fact. Maybe the common man here hasn't had the responsibility of the vote for long enough in our rulers eyes to be allowed arms?
*The UK is tiny (as I'm sure everyone knows)compared to the US. A small group of rich people used to (and still do to some extent) own every piece of land.
To have
owned property in the UK in the 18th or 19thC would have been a big deal!
I'm quite interested in history, mostly local and family history. I'm becoming more and more interested in wider history trying to work out why the British public is such a bunch of mugs....
best wishes M