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The Secretary's Desk Are you a member in good standing and interested in becoming a show director for our Wickenburg show? We are looking for someone who lives nearby or in the far northwest valley, such as Sun City or Surprise. If so, contact one of the AAA officers immediately for information. Now is the time to call for table reservations for our Wickenburg show! This should be a really fun show in the old western Town of Wickenburg at the community center. The facility will allow approximately 100 6 ft. tables. It is air-conditioned and has parking for approximately 300. Tim: (480) 963-5004. WE ARE ACCEPTING AdvertiseMENTS!
Business card size ads as well as classified ads will now be accepted. Of course members will receive a discount. The cost for three (3) insertions* will be as follows.
Business card size ads (2 x 3.5 inches): Members - $25.00 Non-members - $35.00
Classified ads (Maximum 15 words): Members - $10.00 Non-members - $15.00
We can accept ad ready copy’s or scanned business card by email. Contact the secretary for more information. For classifieds, email is preferred but phone ads are acceptable too.
* Printed in one mailed newsletter and 2 online newsletters.
-Cindy E-mail: HaleWest@aol.com
In the News Recently µ Please forward the following information to anyone you know in the Tucson basin: Protecting and Enhancing Shooting Opportunities in Arizona! Please attend this important meeting! A workshop to discuss shooting on public lands in the Tucson area will be held Saturday, June 11. This is the second such workshop sponsored by the Arizona Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The Forest Service and B.L.M. will address the public`s involvement in the land use planning process, as they are due to update their land use plans in the next year or two. In addition, the Forest Service will announce that they will be processing the permit application of Tucson Rod and Gun Club for a new shooting range, to be built on the northeast side of Tucson. For further information about the new shooting range please visit www.trgc.org.
Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management Workshop #2 Date: Saturday, June 11 Time: 1:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. Location: 11100 East Tanque Verde Tucson, AZ (near the Tanque Verde Loop) µIn Chandler, toy guns now legal in public Edythe Jensen May. 30, 2005 12:00 AM
CHANDLER - People who carry toy
guns that look real won't be breaking the law here anymore.
The law came under fire
from parents who said the toys aren't dangerous and the restrictions
were too harsh.
µDoctors' kitchen knives ban call A&E doctors are calling for a ban on long pointed kitchen knives to reduce deaths from stabbing.
Doctors say Kitchen knives are too pointed A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime is on the increase - and kitchen knives are used in as many as half of all stabbings. They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often makes an all too available weapon. The research is published in the British Medical Journal. The researchers said there was no reason for long pointed knives to be publicly available at all. They consulted 10 top chefs from around the UK, and found such knives have little practical value in the kitchen. None of the chefs felt such knives were essential, since the point of a short blade was just as useful when a sharp end was needed. The researchers said a short pointed knife may cause a substantial superficial wound if used in an assault - but is unlikely to penetrate to inner organs. In contrast, a pointed long blade pierces the body like "cutting into a ripe melon". The use of knives is particularly worrying amongst adolescents, say the researchers, reporting that 24% of 16-year-olds have been shown to carry weapons, primarily knives. The study found links between easy access to domestic knives and violent assault are long established. French laws in the 17th century decreed that the tips of table and street knives be ground smooth. A century later, forks and blunt-ended table knives were introduced in the UK in an effort to reduce injuries during arguments in public eating houses. The researchers say legislation to ban the sale of long pointed knives would be a key step in the fight against violent crime. "The Home Office is looking for ways to reduce knife crime. "We suggest that banning the sale of long pointed knives is a sensible and practical measure that would have this effect." Government response Home Office spokesperson said there were already extensive restrictions in place to control the sale and possession of knives. "The law already prohibits the possession of offensive weapons in a public place, and the possession of knives in public without good reason or lawful authority, with the exception of a folding pocket knife with a blade not exceeding three inches. "Offensive weapons are defined as any weapon designed or adapted to cause injury, or intended by the person possessing them to do so. "An individual has to demonstrate that he had good reason to possess a knife, for example for fishing, other sporting purposes or as part of his profession (e.g. a chef) in a public place. "The manufacture, sale and importation of 17 bladed, pointed and other offensive weapons have been banned, in addition to flick knives and gravity knives." A spokesperson for the Association of Chief Police Officers said: "ACPO supports any move to reduce the number of knife related incidents, however, it is important to consider the practicalities of enforcing such changes."
The Secret of a Long
Life A tough old cowboy once
counseled his grandson, that if he wanted to live a long life, the
secret was to sprinkle a pinch of gunpowder on his oatmeal every
morning. |
The Arizona Arms Association will hold their Collector Antique Arms Show at Mesa Centennial Hall November 12-13, 2005. Table reservations will be taken this summer for that big event. Bill Rudich will be director for that show. Contact him for information at 602 896-9218. Items allowed will include pre-1964 vintage and antique arms and armament including guns, knives, swords, cowboy western and Indian artifacts, militaria, vintage ammunition, powder horns, sporting guns, vintage scopes and accoutrements. This will be a BIG event! Our next gun and knife show will be held June 18-19 at the Coconino County Fairgrounds. We invite you to come up and join us in the cool pines. ? Our next general membership meeting will be held October 8-9 Pima Co. Fairgrounds, Tucson. Minneapolis Protector Palm Pistol This informative article came from our Canadian neighbor - The National Firearms Association (NFA) Peter Cronhelm David A. Tomlinson The Minneapolis Protector palm pistol is a marvel of efficiency with seven chambers arranged around an internal rotating disk with the cartridges all pointed outwards. This action type is commonly known as a turret revolver. It is small enough to disappear into the user's hand with only the stubby barrel protruding between the fingers. As a close range weapon the palm pistol's seven rounds "double action" would have far outclassed the two rounds of a Derringer for dissuading the unlawful. The biggest flaw in the design is that the cartridges have to be very short. The US cartridges are .32 Centrefire Extra Short (.32 Protector) and .32 Rimfire Extra Short, and all cartridges for the variants look like .22 Rimfire BB caps. Muzzle velocity was pitiful. Commonly known as the "Chicago Palm Pistol" or the "Chicago Protector", this type of palm pistol is a seven shot, rotary action revolver designed to fit the palm of the hand and be operated by a hinged lever mounted to the rear of the circular frame. The first palm pistols, known as Systeme Turbiaux Le Protector, were introduced 6mm Protector (10 shot) or 8mm Gaulois (7 shot) by Jacques Edmond Turbiaux of Paris in 1882. The design was patented in various countries, including in the US in 1883.
The Minneapolis palm pistol was made under license from the Turbiaux patents by the Minneapolis Firearms Company, about 1890. They were actually made by J Duckworth of Springfield Massachusetts. These guns were marked "The Protector", "Minn. Fire Arms Co." Note: The centrefire versions seem to be quite rare as they do not appear in most historical literature. The second US version, improved (US improvements patent obtained in 1893) by Peter Finnegan, salesman, who bought the rights in 1892, and had his version made by the Ames Sword Company of Chicopee Mass. This version can be easily detected by the "trigger" above the barrel (right), which is actually a grip safety, and the legend, "Chicago Firearms Co. Chicago Ill" on one side, and "The Protector Pat Mch 6 83 Aug 29 93" on the other. This gun was made in the caliber .32 Rim Fire Extra Short. Finnegan contracted the Ames Sword Company to produce the guns and promise to deliver them in time for the opening of the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1892. Ames defaulted and did not deliver the guns until after the exposition closed. Finnegan refused delivery and sued Ames for breach of contract, winning his case. Production of this version was brief, because of the lawsuits. Ames was left with the guns to sell on their own, finally disposing of the last ones in the 1910s. The .32 Rimfire Extra Short and .32 Centrefire Extra Short are blackpowder cartridges that are considered obsolete today. These guns are classed as "Antique" in Canada and "Curios & Relics" in the USA and may be bought and traded without a licence or registration requirement in both countries. An interesting Canadian legal fact about the centrefire model is that it is an "antique firearm" , which totally overrides the fact that it is also a "prohibited firearm." Amusingly this gun is a "prohibited firearm" to which the Firearms Act does not apply in any way and the CC sections listed in CC s. 84(3) do not apply to it either! The Chicago Firearms Co. went on to sell a very similar model called the "Chicago Protector" of which approximately 12,800 copies were made during the early 1890's. As a result, the Minneapolis palm pistol is a much less abundant gun in collector circles and centrefire Minneapolis seem to be rarest of all. Palm guns of this type typically go from $1500 - $2000 US on auction sites. The extremely rare original factory box is many hundred times rarer than the gun and may double the price of one of these guns. References:
For more information visit: The National Firearms Association (NFA) - Canada's Most Effective Firearms Owners Association. http://www.nfa.ca/home/
2005 ARIZONA GUN SHOWS Please be sure to confirm show with designated show director before traveling!
June 18-19 Arizona Arms Assoc. Coconino Co. Fairgrounds - Flagstaff Show Director: Mark - 520 240-0445
July 9-10 Arizona Arms Assoc. Wickenburg Community Center Town of Wickenburg (Show director to be announced)
July 16-17 Arizona Arms Assoc. Rodeway Inn Grant Rd - Tucson Show Director: Walt - 520 298-0422
July 23-24 Crossroads of the West Ice House - State Fairgrounds - Phoenix Contact: - 801 544-9125
July 30-31 Roadrunner Phoenix Show Director: Lori - 602 843-5303
August 6-7 Firing Pin Enterprises Payson Contact: Dave Morse - 602 275-1623
August 20-21 Arizona Arms Assoc. Centennial Hall - Mesa Show Director: Mark - 520 240-0445
August 27-28 Firing Pin Enterprises Williams Contact: Dave Morse - 602 275-1623
September 3-4 Camp Verde Show Verde Valley Show Director: 928 567-0535
September 10-11 Crossroads of the West State Fairgrounds - Phoenix Director: Bob Templeton - 801 544-9125
September 17-18 Roadrunner Convention Center - Tucson Show Director: Lori - 602 843-5303
September 24-25 Roadrunner Convention Center - Glendale Show Director: Lori - 602 843-5303
October 1-2 Gun Trader Kingman Contact: 928 684-2149
October 1-2 Roadrunner Phoenix Show Director: Lori - 602 843-5303
October 8-9 Arizona Arms Assoc. Pima County Fairgrounds - Tucson Show Director: Walt - 520 298-0422 |
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