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   From: jones@fobahor.com   
      
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   On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 23:45:53 -0600, in talk.politics.guns Leper   
    wrote:   
      
   >Whether or not they start fires has nothing to do with it. The State of   
   >California and many other states ban firing tracers as they are   
   >suspected of starting fires. If you can start a fire with a hot   
   >Catalytic converter in dry weeds..It does stand to reason that a tracer   
   >could fir off dry weeds and grass also. It doesn't take much.   
      
   You say: "Whether or not they start fires has nothing to do with it,"   
   then go on to suggest that lots of other things start fires... it   
   sounds like it's pretty much *all* about starting fires to me.  About   
   five years ago, as I recall, somebody shooting tracers burned down an   
   indoor range here in Dallas (see:   
   https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Fire-At-Dallas-Gun-Range-192889271.html)   
      
   Besides, they're pretty much useless to the civilian.  As I said   
   above, the filler is essentially rocket fuel, thus the projectile   
   gains some thrust; however, it also causes it to wobble.  Thus, where   
   the tracer happens to go doesn't have much to do with zeroing a sight.   
   They're handy if you're trying to bring the stream from a belt-fed gun   
   onto a target from an aircraft... you do that every day, I'm sure.   
      
   Hey, any of you ever make a "mini mortar" out of a tracer round?  When   
   we'd get bored out on the berm, we'd start shooting them back and   
   forth between bunkers.   
      
   Jones   
      
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