From: hays@ssd.intel.com (Kirk Hays)
Subject: NRA BBS (Was Re: What's wrong with using aliases?)
Organization: Intel Supercomputer Systems Division
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:51:18 GMT

In article <PA142548.272.715531339@utkvm1.utk.edu>, PA142548@utkvm1.utk.edu (T. Archer) writes:
|> In article <2488@cronos.metaphor.com> howard@Metaphor.COM (Lee Howard) writes:
|> > On another note- I signed up for the NRA-ILA BBS that was advertised in
|> > the last issue of the American Rifleman. Has anyone else tried this BBS?
|> >
|> What's the number?
|> 
|> T. Archer, Netrunner

[courtesy of Leroy Pyle on the PAUL REVERE NETWORK]

The NRA/ILA BBS is online. NRA members only, and a $15.00 registration fee.
Pre-register by voice phone at 800-GUN-TALK or use credit card on line at
703-719-6406. Hey, for $15.00 you get this message from Baker:
 
August 31, 1992

Dear GUN-TALK User.

Welcome to the NRA/ILA computer bulletin board, GUN-TALK.  We hope 
that you will value this new communications tool.

     As an NRA member, GUN-TALK gives you a forum to exchange ideas
not only with the NRA, but with each other.  GUN-TALK will also
post the most up to date information on firearms issues,
legislative action and political developments.  In addition, it
will include a great selection of documentsranging from significant
academic studies on firearms issues to the texts of NRA's
informative fact sheets and pamphlets. The number of documents on
the system will grow each week to make GUN-TALK the most
comprehensive source of facts on firearms issues available
anywhere.
     As a new user, we encourage you to explore the options on the 
system and provide us with your comments, positive and negative.  
Through user input, we will make the system better and provide the 
information you want to have.
     I hope you will turn to GUN-TALK often as a tool to benefit
our mutual cause.  Together the NRA and you can make a difference
in the fight to protect our rights.

Sincerely,

James J. Baker
Executive Director
NRA/ILA
 
....... and the Washington Post thing:
 
08/30/92 -- (C) 1992 The Washington Post 
(LEGI-SLATE Article No. 163350)

       After Andrew: Protecting What's Left and Wondering Why
                           By Mary Jordan
                   Washington Post Staff Writer

   MIAMI, Aug. 29 - Louise Hamilton aimed her .22-caliber pistol at
the men skulking in shadows outside her bungalow and shouted:
"Whatever you've come for, you better make sure it's worth your
life!"

   This time, they left.

   But earlier, in the rainy hours that followed Hurricane Andrew,
looters had run off with two of her television sets. Now, a week
after winds had ripped off half of her roof and reached inside to
stir her belongings like ingredients in a mixing bowl, she was
determined to guard what was left. 
   "The drapes flew out the back door, glass broke everywhere, and
the left side of the house is destroyed," said Hamilton, 57, a Dade
County schoolbus driver. With a candle for light and a pistol for
safety about midnight Friday, she prepared for a fifth consecutive
night of sleeping on the dining room floor. Outside, rain
threatened, and the roof above her bedroom lay in bits in the
backyard.
   In the dark room filled with wet clothes and damaged furniture,
Hamilton said her children had been "fussing that I should go stay
with them. But everyone around here is staying in their homes, no
matter how badly damaged, because they don't want to lose any more.
   "Insurance can pay for something," she said, "but it can't
replace all the things you've accumulated in life."
   All this week since Andrew's 140 mph arrival before dawn Monday,
the routine at Hamilton's one-story house and that of her next-door
neighbors, the Penns, on SW 216th Street in suburban Goulds, was
the same - sweep and clean, hammer and hope.
   Hundreds of thousands of people like them are still coping with
what President Bush said may be the "the worst natural disaster
this country has ever seen."
   While many lives were affected more harshly, Hamilton and her
neighbors are suffering the more typical legacy of Andrew - the
heartbreak of partially destroyed homes and belongings, the hassle
of dead telephones or refrigerators, the fright that descends at
night when only headlights of patrolling National Guard vehicles
pierce the darkness outside.
   "There certainly has been looting," said Capt. Tony Ross,
commander of National Guard rifle platoon troops stationed near
Goulds' Plaza, Hamilton's neighborhood shopping center. 
   Although a semblance of order followed food and federal troops
into the area toward week's end, there has been no end to arrests
for looting or for violating the 7 p.m.-to-7 a.m. curfew.
   "Let's face it, this has been going on a long time now," said
the Rev. Kenneth Whittaker, pastor of the Church of the Little
Flower in Coral Gables, who brought donated food to Goulds' Plaza.
"People right in the middle . . . feel isolated. It affects the
spirit as well as the body."
 


-- 
Kirk Hays - NRA Life.
Start your day with a little civil disobedience.  Call BATF at 1-800-ATF-GUNS or
1-800-RUN-GUNS, tell them what you think of gun grabbers and government employees
that encourage people to narc on their neighbors.  Good for the soul.
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