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  • From: bonnie elster <elster530@yahoo.com>
  • To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] Guns in SAR
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 18:58:31 -0700 (PDT)


Our county feels we are protected by our deputies &
doesn't allow us to carry. We are to call in a deputy
any time we feel uneasy or feel the need for
protection

--- pennbo@bbv.net wrote:
> We have several folks who are trained and licensed
> to carry. We do not
> have a requirement. We do however have one faithful
> member who packs a
> pistol and is on virtually every search so we feel
> well covered-
> especially with radio contact. We have discussed the
> possibility of
> having to put a horse down (its happened before in
> our group) and are
> currently discussing different solutions.
>
> I also have traveled all over the world and into
> many wilderness areas
> as a single woman and have felt safer without a gun.
> However, the world
> is changing and so are the people. My area is close
> to a metropolitan
> area and we get very strange people hiding away
> here. I am enrolling in
> classes to learn to use a weapon for home
> protection. My choice, based
> on law enforcement recommendations, a double barrel
> shotgun. I still
> won't carry a gun while riding. But I am pretty
> handy with a knife.
>
> Chris Pennington
> Commander, Big Bear Sheriff's Posse MSAR
>
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