[meteorite-list] Guns made of meteorite: Price tag $1 million

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:05:56 -0500
Message-ID: <CAKBPJW9994MopM7TwtshTnirM0tjKDTLNbsqASCFcmMT4R9_JQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi List,

I have to agree with Anne on this one. It's sad to see a beautiful
regmaglypted Gibeon sliced down, smelted, and turned into a tool. I'd
feel the same way if the tool was a wrench or a gun.

Besides, meteoritic iron is not homogeneous and may fracture under
pressure. It is a poor choice for making gun parts. This is a
gimmick and nothing more. I own guns, I am knowledgeable about guns,
and I would touch this gun with a ten-foot pole, even if I had a
million dollars. It's a bomb waiting to explode in the shooter's hand.

Best regards,

MikeG



On 1/15/16, Anne Black via Meteorite-list
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> Hello Peter,
>
> Since you asked................
>
> I am sorry if I upset your friend or yourself, but destroying a meteorite
> just so you can redo it was simply idiotic. Why break something just so you
> can glue it back together? and losing in the process the Widmanstatten
> pattern, the very identity of the meteorite that simply cannot be
> re-created.
> As for this latest idea....... Using a meteorite that came down in peace,
> that helped early men learn the value of iron, and then turn it into a gun,
> this might be the ultimate insult.
>
> See you soon in Tucson.
>
> Anne M. Black
> www.IMPACTIKA.com
> IMPACTIKA at aol.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Davidson via Meteorite-list
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> To: 'Tommy' <tommy58 at hvc.rr.com>; Meteorite List
> (meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com) <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Fri, Jan 15, 2016 8:40 am
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Guns made of meteorite: Price tag $1 million
>
> Dear Tommy and All
>
> I will be interested to see the reaction of listees to this article. A few
> years ago I posted a small "flyer" for the work of an artist who had taken a
> piece of Campo, made a mould of it, melted the meteorite then cast it in the
> mould she had made earlier and put it on display in an exhibition of her
> work. This piece of news generated a great deal of, mainly negative, comment
> on the list. Can someone point out to me how this use of a meteorite, to
> make a weapon, is different (for better or worse) to the artwork my friend
> created?
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter Davidson
> Senior Curator of Mineralogy
>
> Natural Sciences Department
> National Museums Collection Centre
> 242 West Granton Road
> Edinburgh
> EH5 1JA
> TEL: 0131 247 4283
> E-mail: p.davidson at nms.ac.uk
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On
> Behalf Of Tommy via Meteorite-list
> Sent: 15 January 2016 13:16
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Guns made of meteorite: Price tag $1 million
>
>
> http://bit.ly/1SRLDK1
>
> Regards!
>
> Tom
>
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