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Old 30th Oct 2014, 20:14
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Herod

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OK, so I'm ancient. We had a .38 revolver, with six rounds. The safe thing to do was to only load five, keeping the chamber under the hammer empty. Jumping about aeroplanes with six loaded could cause one to shoot oneself in the foot: literally.
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