England UK

On Sun, 29 May 2005 11:45:06 +0100, "William Black"
<abuse@hotmail.com> wrote:

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>"Rhiannon Pendragon" <Rhiannon@Pendragon.xxx> wrote in message
>news:Xns9664E10A7B03DRhiannonPendragonxxx@216.196.97.142...
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>> 8. During the early part of this century anyone, respectable
>> citizen, criminal or lunatic, could walk into a gunshop and buy
>> any firearm he wanted. The law prohibited sales to persons who
>> were drunk at the time, and those wishing to buy a pistol would
>> have been required to call first at a post office to obtain a 10
>> shilling gun licence. Despite that, statistics provided by the
>> Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis showed that the use of
>> firearms in crime was very rare indeed as the following table
>> shows:
>
>The only interesting bit.
>
>At that time 10/- was a week's wages for a skilled man.

And the purchasing power of that 10/ was a great deal more than 10/
now, wasn't it!



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