Firearms

Abstract

There are few more evocative subjects than that of the gun. To some the image immediately conjures to mind the winning of the West, to others the issue of law and order at home, to some again a flood of childhood memories, the first shot with a twelve bore shotgun at an empty milk can or a cactus. This sort of memory can confer the gun for ever with nostalgia and romance which growing older simply intensifies. To others again it stands as a reminder of the gulf between the classes or at least between the moneyed and the not so well off. And there are those who see the gun as a mark of social superiority just as others see the horse as a great divider and that is one of the major reasons that the editors of this magazine "Il-Pulizija" decided to enlighten the readers about guns. This series starts with the Webley revolvers, firearms that are very well known among the members of the Malta Police Force.