Hi Corky,
I don't think anything said was meant as a personal attack and I'm sorry if you saw it as so. Guns are certainly seen as a different thing over here, we generally see the more negative in them than the positive. Different cultures have different ways of looking at things and that's what makes the world a varied and wonderful place
Welcome to the forum, wow, 85 years young, see I'm less than half your age and with a passion for turning, we already have a lot in common. That's the beauty of the forum, we're all the same really, where ever we are in the world.