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groups mobilize Indians embrace right 2 bear arms
EMCS
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New groups mobilize as Indians embrace the right to bear arms
In the land of Mahatma Gandhi, Indian gun owners are coming out of the shadows for the first time to mobilize, U.S.-style, against proposed new curbs on bearing arms.
When gunmen attacked 10 sites in Mumbai in November 2008, including two five-star hotels and a train station, Mumbai resident Kumar Verma sat at home glued to the television, feeling outraged and unsafe.
Before the end of December, Verma and his friends had applied for gun licenses. He read up on India's gun laws and joined the Web forum Indians for Guns. When he got his license seven months later, he bought a black, secondhand, snub-nose Smith & Wesson revolver with a walnut grip.
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In the land of Mahatma Gandhi, Indian gun owners are coming out of the shadows for the first time to mobilize, U.S.-style, against proposed new curbs on bearing arms.
When gunmen attacked 10 sites in Mumbai in November 2008, including two five-star hotels and a train station, Mumbai resident Kumar Verma sat at home glued to the television, feeling outraged and unsafe.
Before the end of December, Verma and his friends had applied for gun licenses. He read up on India's gun laws and joined the Web forum Indians for Guns. When he got his license seven months later, he bought a black, secondhand, snub-nose Smith & Wesson revolver with a walnut grip.
FULL ARTICLE HERE
http://tiny.cc/F2KQs
Comments
'Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.'
Sounds like the old pacifist spoke out of both sides of his mouth.
Allen
I hope they find the freedom they seek.
Scary about the vasectemy for gun permit part. I guess the "kings men" really are mostly neutered.
quote:Originally posted by minitruck83
Well since Gandhi wrote this tidbit.
'Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.'
Sounds like the old pacifist spoke out of both sides of his mouth.
Allen