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India Four Two
Also off topic, but relevant.
I think many people in the UK don't appreciate the almost casual attitude to weapons that is quite prevalent in the US.
Years earlier, when I went to Houston for the first time, for a company course, a Texan colleague told me that probably 50% of the cars in the office car park would have a gun in the glove box.
That may be true to some extent but when I worked with the CAF in Texas there was a more or less fulltime volunteer member there who (besides being a complete erse) was reputed to keep a loaded Magnum in his glove-box. This was very dimly regarded and most people thought he was a danger.
The CAF in the mid '70s was a pretty yee-haar organisation too.