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Mike- Don't want to turn this into a gun debate, wrong forum, but... > From: Michael Maibaum <mike@ma*.or*> > Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 19:21:15 +0000 > To: Jim Cobb <cobber@ma*.ci*.co*>, techdiver@aquanaut.com > Subject: Re: Full Auto Snorkels > >> 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) I thought that ScubaPro was already selling these units? Seems to me that I saw them in a catalog or perhaps the web page. If SP is selling them then perhaps the process is further along than you think. >> 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.... While guns are used for many purposes, I would feel pretty stupid should the day come and I have to ask the person who just broke into my house "Ah, excuse me old bean, but could you give me just a few to load my gun? I'd use the loaded one with the lock but I seem to have misplaced the key". Real stupid. >> 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. Well, I'm glad to hear that the UK is such a crime and murder free society. The next time you see a Bobby, ask to look into the boot of his vehicle and then ask him why he needs all that weaponry in a "gun-less" society. > 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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