From: D O (dohe69@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jun 18 2003 - 18:17:36 PDT
You're absolutely right, it would be camo paint and off road tires that
would make up the definition!
I bet blackout lights would also be on their list of evil components, since
we could just shut off the normal lights and sneak around undetected. Also,
a vehicle bought at auction would qualify as a "Saturday Night Special".
>From: "James Stead" <gadget@EasyPath.com>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: Re: [MV] Proper use for a Hummer
>Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:25:13 -0400
>
> The only problem with your thinking here, is that your thinking. Talking
>about weighted formulas and such indicates thought. The overwhelming
>majority of our government representatives are not capable of such thought.
>For example, in classifying assault rifles, they used things such as flash
>hiders and bayonet lugs to describe the weapon. Just how many stories have
>you heard of someone being killed with a flash hider?
> I suspect that if they ban "assault vehicles" it'll be based on
>something
>they can understand themselves. Things like tire type...NDT's and XL's look
>more scary than an extra-miler. Paint color, obviously. Olive drab, 383,
>etc
>will have to be banned. Very dangerous colors...just look at how much more
>dangerous a rifle is when it's parkerized with black furniture. Forget
>ballistics and such, WAY too complicated.
> Better buy your 'evil' canvas tops while you can guys.
>
>Jim
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "D O" <dohe69@hotmail.com>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 8:42 PM
>Subject: Re: [MV] Proper use for a Hummer
>
>
> >
> > Oh no, I can see it now. The media will exploit this and coin the term
> > "assault vehicle" and create a big stink about how big of a problem they
> > are. Heck, they already are b**ching about SUV's due to their size.
>Then
> > some congressman will do his good deed to society by generating some
>bogus
> > bill to ban these "assault vehicles". They will have to come up with
>some
> > definition of such vehicle, maybe by the number of tires, size of tires,
>or
> > type of tread? Maybe come up with a weighted formula so that commercial
> > trucks with highway tread would not be included, but anything with 4+
> > offroad tires of 33" or bigger would qualify. And the more tires the
> > vehicle has, and the bigger those tires are, the more likely it could be
> > used to kill many people at once, as opposed to a pickup truck with
>235/75
> > street tread tires.
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: "David Prall" <dcp@dcptech.com>
> > >To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> > >Subject: [MV] Proper use for a Hummer
> > >Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:50:00 -0400
> > >
> > >Business Owner Chases, Runs Over Robbery Suspects In Hummer
> > >http://www.local6.com/news/2272794/detail.html
> > >
> > >--
> > >David C Prall dcp@dcptech.com http://dcp.dcptech.com
> > >
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