Azrael said:
IF the Strasberg test's were conducted as has been reported, were they a direct result of the FBI's continuing search for the "perfect" handgun round??
It's "S-T-R-A-S-B-O-U-R-G," damnit!
They had absolutely nothing to do with the FBI, although I daresay that whoever circulated that abstract to Quantico (Bill van der Pool, Charlie?), might have wished to influence the Bureau's thinking.
And yes, Sam, "…
he's slow on the up-take," but I don't think he's another "Jumpy."
CeePee said:
One very interesting point is that a story that ran, IIRC, in "Handguns" under Evan Marshall's byline was a verbatim copy of the original "report" with only spelling and grammar corrections made.
And… the addendum of the correlation between the Strasbourg results and the Marshall-Sanow "empirical data."
TBeck said:
I don't think Mr. Libourel actually said the tests were conducted in France but it was strongly implied.
O, no, Trav… it was quite matter of factly stated "which took place in France" in the caption to the primary photo accompanying the article.
To my surprise, the letter was posted in a later issue along with Jan's response. He replied that the tests were conducted "a lot closer to the Potomac" and stated that the identity of the institution conducting the tests was concealed to protect it from protests by animal rights groups.
Yeah, that surprised me as well, because it make me realize that he'd been following some of the same tracks that I had back in '93.
I had also heard the stories about goats used as final exams for SF medics, but I heard them a couple years prior to the publication of the test results.
My SF guy told me that they'd been doing it for years before the PETA-people raised a big fuss.
Ed said:
So where did they "probably occur?
Doncha think that if I'd've wanted to share that information, you wouldn't've had to inquire?
For the record, let me restate:
the Strasbourg Tests are what they are, and nothing more. Accept them, ignore them, or discredit them based on what the abstract states. If you need to parse the abstract in order to discredit them, then you haven't got a case.