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>Actually we should not laugh at this trigger lock thing. If this becomes law >it is only a matter of time until OSHA will require "regulator locks" to be >installed on scuba equipment to prevent untrained divers from using your >equipment. > >You laugh at this? In Europe they already have a Nitrox special tank valve >and regulator. I don't know what happens if they catch you with Nitrox (or, >God help us, trimix) in a non-nitrox cylinder but at the very least the >lawyers will have a field-day with it. No we don't.....but there were/are some suggestions hanging around, think a back to front Din with the female on the tank. Stupid idea, it will never go anywhere (at least I sincerely hope not) >Beware the gradual chipping away of our freedoms, folks, this trigger lock >law leaves your home open to the Feds and to lawyers. And if it proves >profitable, er, successful you will see required locks springing up on all >sorts of sporting equipment. Can't see a trigger lock being terribly useful, aren't guns in "accessible positions meant to be kept unloaded (at least thats what logic would suggest as a minimum with kids) people don't so that so why would they actually lock there gun.... >Don't get me wrong, I keep my weapon in a rapid-access gun safe to keep it >away from the kids, and believe that this should be the norm. But if it >becomes a Federal Mandate, regulator locks here we come. I like living in the UK where no-one really feels the need to own a gun and our murder rate is some minute fraction of yours..... but having said that at least it sounds like yours is "safe" from misuse. Mike Michael Maibaum mike@ma*.or* 020 8 743 3668 (H) 020 8 383 2390 (W) 07803 070761 (M) -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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