Sean H. Breheny wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Since I know that there are a fair number of you who are interested in
> model or high-power rocketry, I thought I'd run this past you. My local NAR
> club just sent this out. It is somewhat understandable that the FAA would
> temporarily ban high-power rockets, but I fail to see how anyone could
> really make a usable projectile weapon from an A or B class model rocket
> engine, that would be any better than a rifle.
>
> Comments? Anyone else heard this?
>
> I put this under EE rather than OT because the recent consensus is that EE
> is for all technical/remotely EE connected topics.


Hmm. This is what I feared all along. The rest of
the "western" countries treat their citizens like
prisoners, with very little "right" to do anything
that might be a possible threat to the powers that
be.

My fear was that the USA would use these recent events
to clamp down on guns, weapons, rights etc etc to
the point that the other countries have already
reached. In most countries rockets are already
outlawed, and no our K-marts don't sell guns.

In Australia we recently saw the Port Arthur massacre,
with enough public support the government simply
stepped in and removed all the guns from the people.
This is happening now to you in the USA. Rockets today,
pistols tomorrow, rifles soon after.

The reality is that these recent events weren't
commited with rockets or pistols, but low-tech box
knives. Now you see them taking rockets etc away,
we've seen it here and in the UK, now you people
are going to see it. I'm afraid the "Land of the
free" is soon going to follow down the same ugly
path with all the power finally distributed to the
government and banks.

Sorry for the rant, at least I changed it to OT??
:o)
-Roman

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