On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:14:39 GMT, kontiki
wrote:

Bob Chilcoat wrote:
I'll even concede percussion-cap muzzle-loaders and paper cartridge
breach-loaders, but no one NEEDs to own an assault rifle or machine gun for
personal use.

Then to apply your logic to aviation "no one NEEDs to own an airplane or
or especially a restored military aircraft for personal use."

Don't think the two can be compared. Guns are for killing, or at
least that's the reason they were invented. Airplanes are for
transportation, or at least that's why they were first invented.

Military airplanes are airplanes first, weapons second: they must fly
(transportation) to where they discharge their weapons.

Corky Scott