jkh@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard) (11/16/85)
There is an excellent article in the July 1985 issue of AMREICAN RIFLEMAN. It's entitled "Safeguarding The Lawman's Ammunition" and it describes how to store and cycle through ammunition. One particular interesting bit of information was a story about how an officer was confronted by a daimondback rattle snake when he got home from his tour of duty one night. He pulled his revolver and squeezing the trigger six times heard only six clicks as the gun misfired with each pull. He finally had to kill the snake with a rock. Turns out that the ammunition was bad due to the officer spraying WD-40 on the gun (including the primers) after he cleaned it all the time. This lubricant seeped into the primer and ruined it. So beware. The AMMERICAN RIFLEMAN has valuable articles like this all the time and it also has information on gun legislation at all government levels. This magazine can only be had thruough becoming a member of the National Rifle Association. Or members may get the AMMERICAN HUNTER magazine if they choose. Everybody reading this net should be a mamber of the NRA. They keep you informed about every aspect of guns. They also give you $100,000 hunting liability insurance, $10,000 accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and $300 gun theft insurance, and a few little things. If you send in the $15 yearly membership now you get a subscription to either the AMERICAN RIFLEMAN or AMERICAN HUNTER magazines and your choice of either an orange NRA cap or a black and gold embroidered cap or a 3.5 inch folding knife. You should be able to find a membership post card an any gun magazine or you can write to: National Rifle Association P. O. Box 6699 Washington, D. C. 20009-0299 jvz@ccice5