RE: Colonists and Weapons

Actually, both Communist China and the old USSR allowed people in rural
areas to have various types of hunting rifles and shotguns.  The reason
is obvious in a rural setting, where farmers/herders need to kill
predators and vermin.  In fact, there was a civilian hunting version of
the Druganov (sp.?) sniper rifle I believe.  Also, a lot of the old
militia units in China had their own AK47s and SKS's (type 56s and type
53s to be more exact).	Of course, a lot of them had spears too, but
that's a different story...

About Canadian colonies having less weapons than ESU colonies... not if
they're from Alberta :)

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-----Original Message-----
From:	Tomb [SMTP:tomb@dreammechanics.com]
Sent:	Monday, January 28, 2002 6:06 PM
To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject:	Colonists and Weapons

As to the issue of what the ESU would permit its colonists.... do you
suspect that Russia permits the Mob there to have weapons? And yet there
seem to be an awful lot of them out there. And do you suspect that
weapons can't be made in a 2183 machine shop at night or in secret? I
can probably make a 2000 equivalent rifle with ease. Do you suspect that
ESU army units won't be moonlighting for extra cash as security for
smuggling or as "hitters"? I think you'll find weapons galore in ESU
colonies, though hardly as evenly distributed as those in Libertarian
Colonies like the AE. 

You're more likely to have few weapons (and fewer of the military kind)
in a Canadian-NAC colony than in an ESU colony. Or so I suspect.

Tomb.