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From: decwrl!well.sf.ca.us!well!tmi@uunet.UU.NET (Peter Kasler)
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Subject: Re: Ordinance Gelatin, where to get it?
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Date: 30 May 91 20:26:22 GMT
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Don't know where/from whom you heard that Sanow had ever worked with Marty
Fackler, but it's not true. They've never worked together; Sanow has never
been in a wound ballistics lab with Fackler, let alone in the Army's lab.

The person who challenged Evan Marshall to make his sources available to
any ligitimate researcher is Alex Jason, among other things President of
the International Wound Ballistics Association. He made the challenge at
the 1990 SOF convention during a presentation he was giving. He's since
repeated it several times. Marshall has never responded directly and of
course refuses to provide his source infor and related data to any
legitimate
wound ballistics researcher. They all agree that Marshall is nothing more
than another opportunistic gun writer, except that he's using his former
cop position for a little extra mileage. Obviously, it works with the
majority of uninformed gun rag readers.

I won't comment on your remarks about Bradley Steiner and Mas Ayoob for
several reasons, including that it's unprofessional and Mas is a good
friend. But as to your own remark that there're times when one must
"point and hope for the best", I can't resist commenting: While it is true
that many poorly-trained individuals do that under stress, a well-trained
person will do considerably more than that. "Point shooting" is a rather
ambiguous term at best, but there are valid, effective techinques that
some people mistakenly call point shooting.

-- Pete