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I cannot take the credit for "Ill-Annoy" as I learned the term from my friend Steve Zihn.

It is appropriate, isn;t it? Since then, another friend has given me another term that works equally well - New Yuck City.

Somehow, the Indian authorities - Commie thugs, the lot of them - don't have a clue about guns other than restricting their ownership among law abiding citizens by restricting licenses. That is how some old guns that would otherwise be considered illegal for various reasons are still in private ownership.

As an aside, a member here has told a newspaper in India in a rare pro gun piece that the newspaper did, that when he went with his 12 ga SxS shotgun to the Commissioner of Police to get it registered, he was asked if it was a tifle or a revolver. And I'm not making this up - I could find the interview on the newspaper's website if you are interested.

Another very good friend who visits the USA to shoot pheasants with me walked at a march post the Mumbai attacks asking for gun ownership for law abiding Indians and was denied a license because the Chief of Police in Bangalore called him "an arms trafficker."

Never heard of an Indian politician getting arrested for owning illegal firearms except when the politician in question fell out of power, and, the flip side to official stupidity and thuggishness that is a way of life in India means that the country has, according to the UN, the largest number of illegal firearms in the world.

What a bloody mess!