In fact the possesion of blank rounds, empty caes and projectiles are illegal as these can be re-purposed and re-used. I recommend the thread is dropped.

The thread mentioned is in "The Tea Room" – supposedly a place for non-mainstream ME discussions ?

If the content is not of interest to you, or you find it "distasteful", then don't read it or get involved – that the thread has run to 3 pages suggets that others do find it interesting.

"Closing the discussion down" will not change the dreadful situation in Ukraine in the slightest.

Nigel B.

Certainly in the USA gunsmithing would be a more popular hobby than model engineering. It's probably THE major home machineshop activity. Guns don't excite me (Saw enough and heard enough about them when I lived in Zimbabwe) but there is some interesting engineering in them and many of the gunsmithing techniques and tools are downright ingenious and worth knowing about for other use.

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If anyone doesn't like a thread then they can simply ignore it

First World problems eh, tsk tsk tsk

I find the subject interesting and think it should continue, as said earlier gunsmithing techniques are ingenious and as model engineers these techniques may well be useful to us in our workshops.

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Up until now I've kept out of these type of "should we allow" discussions. But seriously some of you need to man up.

This being offended, complaining and wanting things removed because they don't fit your point of view tactic seems to be more and more common in todays day and age. (Especially amongst far left authoritarian types). And it's appalling.

Don't read it or grow a thicker skin. It's that easy.

It's not that THEY don't want to read it, but that YOU should not read it.

The WOKE brigade strike again, do as I say, not as I do.

Lefty Liberal elite who want to control everything we do, say or think.

If you think '1984' was fiction, it's just a bit later arriving.

The thought police are here and active.

Nil iligitum…as they say

There is always a war somewhere. If you ban every topic anyone finds distasteful or annoying then you are left with donkey rescue and kittens

Within reason, anything goes in 'The Tea Room', with the exception, and rightly so, POLITICS. Enough flak can be generated by some of the snowflake brigade if there's an R in the month.

The note, 'If thine eye offends thee – – – – – ' springs to mind. On the bottom of every posting there is a button marked "Ignore member" Figure.

Regards Ian.

On the save whatever kick, I would gladly save the Penguins, but I'm afraid the Tigers I'm already saving would eat them.

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Best not classify people into 'types' or 'brigades' IMO, especially if it's intended to be insulting or patronising, as it usually is. Nobody wants a general label stuck on them for a single specific view they might have.