TAP No. 58 - Pro-Gun Rights Postage Stamp Campaign, Mr. Phelps Strikes Again!

Stamp Out Gun Control ‘The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has launched a new project which we expect to have & major impact on Public opinion, Would you believe the U.! Postal Service has never Issued stamp commemorating our rg t0 keep and bear arms? Or, for that matter, the shooting sports or our U.S. Olympic Rifle and Pistol Team? ‘Well, they haven't. Furthermore, In their new “Roots of Democracy'’ stamp serles, they commemorate Free- dom of Spesch, Freedom to Vote, Freedom to Assemble, Freedom of the Press—but they omit our Firearms Freedom—the basic root of democracy. a ‘Why do we want a pro-gut rights postage stamp? Because it we get the Postal Service to Issue & right to keep and bear arms com- memorative postage stamp we will ly every American with ro-gun rights message. In addition to having a mass Im- pact on the way many Americans think and vote, this project is an ex- cellent way of getting cn the of- fensive rather than always fighting a defensive battle. That Is why wo need your help now, to make this innovative project a success. Please write today to Willlam Bolger, U.S. Postmaster General, U.S. Post Office, Washington, D.C. 20026, asking him to Issue a stamp commemorating the Seco’ Amendment, our right to keep ana bear arms, At the bottom of this page is an ad for pro-gun stamps which you will be able to use along with your reguiar postage until we can get the Postal Service to commemorate our rights. So you can “see, this project Is well planned and thought out. Our objectives are three-fold: *To reach as many people as possible with our pro-gun rights message through an effective means of communication. To focus attention on our right to keep and bear arms, and re- mind Americans that our heritage of firearms traedom Is In the na- tional! interest. To achieve the greatest Impact on the mass public at the lowest possible cost~so that your pur- chase rough the ad has more lous yer dollar. CCRIKBA: prefers to take the of- fensive with a project like this than always be on the defensive because of activities of anti-gun groups like the National Counci} to Control ‘Handguns or the National Coall- tlon to Ban Handguns. To be frank, in the next few months we must ralse $225,000 to make this project a success. That {s why we need your help and seek your support through the ad at the bottom of this page. Just Imagine how unglued the anti-gunners will become every time they get a letter in the mail with a pro-gun stamp on it, _B Every stamp you lick brings us closer to licking the anti- gunners. ‘We might stamp out gun confis- cation once and for alll It's about time we did!!! ‘A You also may be able to use them without your regular postage! -B Just imagine how ungired the Postal Monopoly will be- come every time they catch a letter with only a pro- gun stamp on it! £ And closer to eliminating the Postal “Service's” mono- y ai ~ A JULY-AUG 1979 NO. 58 Mr. Phelps Strikes Again! That's right, Jim Phelps, that lovable, larcenous, lecherous Libertarian and his IM Force are back with another exciting issue filled with fun and games!!! After the unbelievable, un- precedented, under-whelming 2 letter reader response to the last Mr. Phelps issue, I've decided to give him another chance to get his act together! All of the articles, comments and >pinions expressed in this issue are the sole responsibility of Mr. Phelps and do not necessarily represent those of TAP or its staff of burn outs. Any similarity between the persons, places and events mentioned in this issue and the real thing is purely intentional, Names have been changed to protect the guilty and to keep us from getting our ass sued! Address all comments and complaints about this issue to Mr. Phelps c/o TAP. As always, if any of your IM Force is caught or killed, TAP will disavow all knowledge of your activities. Good luck, Jim. DEDICATION poly! This issue is dedicated to Abbie Hoffman and all our other revolutionaries, wherever they are. O Yes! I'l help stamp out control. Send me —— sheets of stamps (50 stamps per sheet) at 25¢ per sheet. I've enclosed $__. INFO WANTED Name We'd like to know all about the chemical (source, price, Address etc) which may be used on postage stamps to allow automated nity State Zip. sorting and canceling. Return to: Chain Stamps Citizen Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 1601 114th Street SE, Suite 151, Bellevue, Washington 98004 The pale blue of these stamps may not reproduce well, If it doesn't, you'll just have to order some to see how great they Took. And be sure to order enough - 10 or 20 sheets @ 25¢ per sheet is a bargain - to make it worth the CCRKBA's time. Small orders are a nuisance! These stamps offer many possibilities. If you use them alone, and if they catch it, they'll “Return to Sender” or to the Dead Letter Office (and maybe the Postal Inspector!) If they catch it. It's not likely that they will in a large city. In smal (reatly small, like where I am In Mittel- Amerika) towns, t+: Postal employees are reatly friendly and conscientious. Amazing! F you were to get a rubber stamp made with 15¢ on it, and a stamp pad with ink color to match the blue of the stamp, heh, .heh..,Good luck! Another possibility would be to get a 13c rubber stamp and add a 2c "real" stamp. WARNING I understand that recent "real" stamps have a,chemical in the ink which permits letters to be sorted and canceled by automated equipment. The lack of this chemical in CCRKBA's "stamps" might be a problem. Using a 2¢ "real" stamp and a V3e CCRI stamp" might be the best idea. You've heard of chain letters? If not, ask some old timer. They're a pyramid scheme (illegal) like Social In- Security (legal because the government says so) in which the first players may make a lot of money, but at the expense of Tater Players. * much less dishonest kind of chain letter can be prod with the aid of Elmer's Glue-All. Regular readers of TAP will recall #39 which advised that Postage stamps could be recycled by coating them before mailing (and allowing it to sty before mailing, or it could prove embarrassing), If you apply the glue too heavily, the Cancellation will smudge. Now that it really matters. A friend and I sent the Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis crossing the Atlantic on so many flights 107 15? 20? that we lost count. We were tempted to claim a Guinness World's Record. Remember, it's bad luck to break a chain letter, What if you get caught? Many paranoids have asked me this, 1 don't think the gov- ernment is so stupid that they would prosecute. Think of all the free publicity Elmer would get! Sales Of Elmer's report- edly increased significantly after #39 appeared. Look what happens whenever Puritans try to censor a book or movie, up * There's nothing wrong with stealing from the government. After all, they steal from us. They call it taxes, FREE MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS | Have you heard about the Mordacai Jones Magazine System? He was the George'C, Scott character in The Flim-flam Man, It's a systemization of the three free issue policy. Z1f you send in a card and say "BY11 me", they'll send three issues and a lot of bills before caneeling, See #42 for another method.7 Go to the library and get-sub. cards for the mags you want, Pick a desirable name and send in, recording the date on a big master list. When the first issue comes, record the date received so you know how long processing takes. After a few issues cancel the first, sub and reorder a Second on the cards that came in your first issues. It is best to cancel by writing ‘tlo longer at this address” on the invoice, This seems more plausible than to just deny you ever ordered. It is also best to keep the first invoice for when you want to cancel, It looks better than canceling after your fourth in- voice. Often the envelope included with the first invoice is postpaid, but subsequent ones are not. Once you know how long it takes to process an order and a cancelation, you can just keep sending things in at the right time to get uninterrupted service. It usually works out that you should order the next sub before you cancel the first, but that depends on the mag. Esquire takes almost 6 weeks to order, as does Forbes, Yachting, and Road and Track. High Fidelity on the other hand took less than two weeks; as does Business Week. Most of the rest are somewhere in between. As far as picking a name to order in, we used the name of @ guy who used to tive in our dorm room before WWI. Then we switched the name around a little each tim We do get some rather strange looks from our mailman! This might not be necessary atacollege, where the P 0 delivers to an address, not a name, It could be a problem at an apartment, As far as the magazine end is concerned, I'm quite sure the name is irrelevant, as long as it's not identical with the last one. A friend ordered one under the name Ivan Biteyatitsoff and I'm sure there are more inventive things to be done in this area. In any case, it's all handled by computers and humans who are as capable of original thought as computers (which is to say: not at all), so it doesn't have to make sense, as evidenced by the Forbes article I included, . Report from Arthur Bishop (my favorite movie hero): 1 got a catalog from Ken Hale Publications, POBox 395, McDonald, Ohio 44437 $1.00 It's a lot like Loompanics, only he has more stuff: silencers, bombs, locks, warfare, survival, etc. For the "Man of Action". Includes kurt Saxon's Root-Rot, an answer to Alex Haley. The Mechanic starring Charles Bronson} I hadn't heard, Hany thanks to One of the Best and the Brightest. If we had a couple of hundred contributors like you, we could publish a full size magazine every month. If you live in a house or apt, and are on good terms with your mailman, you might be able to tell him about it and he may go along with it - as long as it doesn't get him into trouble. You can tell him that, if anyone’ inquires about the name(s), it’s someone “visiting” you, Some mailmen are pretty good guys. Remember, we are fighting The System, not individuals who may be trapped in it. oP ‘AND YOU'RE AFRAID OF COMPUTERS? An estimable magazine sent out a renewal offer not long ago to a subscriber who had not renewed. The label was returned with a line through the gentleman's name and a handwritten notation "Died in 74" You guessed it -- the correction was made. And the next mailing, identical to the first, went out addressed to “Died in 74" 41575684 a DIEDIN 7% 7 HC DONALD RN. fbn oF me 13e 1g from Forbes 2% of mail misdirected Dear Mr. Steelmor, We have received ycur request to cancel ycur order fer NEW YSEK BAGAZIN®. It has keen cancelled as you Dec 11, 1978 instructad. recaiva an additional invoice, please disregard it. MAKE YOUR OWN LOCK PICKS ‘Al Mundy and I have been promising for some time to write articles on lock picking. Al's was in #50, and, at long last, here's mine, Every gun enthusiast (sren't we all? If you aren't, you should be!) 4s, or should be, familiar with Brownell's, Route 2, Box 1, Montezuma, Iowa SOL71, Their 150+page ca’ ($2.50, refundable with first order) liste all sorts of gun— smithing goodies, >Qne of these goodies is #151 Spring Stock Assortment One hundred 12" long pieces 1/16" to 3/8" wide and .015" to .045" thick. $4.90 plus shipping. These strips can algo be used to make lock picks and tension wrenches - But don't tell them you want some lock pick stock! If you'd rather not spend any money, follow a motorized street aweeper around until the operator stops for coffee or lunch. A mimute or two with your wire cutters (ordinary pliers may be inadequate) and you will have all the .025" x 1/8" spring steel you want. "WM" of Canada adds: I grind my own picks out of the 3/8" (that's three-eighths of an inch) spring steel fichtapes used by electricians. The "Key" to suécessful picking is PRACTICE. ‘The most effective method I've discovered for heat treat- 4ng tension wrenches (and all other small springs) appeared in an earlier edition of Brownell's catalog. Heat the steel to a dull red and bend it to the desired shape. Reheat it and quench it in water. Dry it off, Carefully - it ie brittle. Coat it with ofl. Then light it and allow the ofl to burn off, When it cools, test it. If it breake, Sorry, Charlie! You didn't heat it enuf, If it bends, you over~ heated it and annealed it. Reheat and shape it, quench and temper, If it's just right, nice work! Using Your New Toye We'll build up your confidence by starting with the easiest lock.of all to pick: the ten wafer Juncunc (American) padlock. They look very impressive with a heavy shackle (which often is brittle because of the chrome plating, instead of tough as 1t should be) and "twin balls lock it solid". But when it comes to security, they are "June". The pick ia mightier than the hacksaw or pry bar! We'll use a 1/4" ball ¢ =Sc—_ pick. The key way is so wide-and thick that the pick can ‘be made from an old hacksaw blade. Insert the tension wrench and apply moderate tension, Insert the pick, raking the wafers down one side and the wafers on the other side on the way out. Often you can open it on the first pass. You may be as fast as they are on television, If you take more than five -5- count ‘em FIVE seconds to pick a Junc-er, you definitely need more practice! After opening one 90 easily, it may be hard for you to believe this, but many trucking companies use the Juncune lock. If you have a warped sense of humor (If you didn't, you wouldn't be reading TAP) and if you're willing to risk & possible Federal rap, you might want to swap locks on a truck. If you remain nearby to observe the driver'a reac- tion when he returns and learns that his key doesn't work, remember that you may find it difficult to keep a straight face. Your own imegination will provide you with many other ideas for ways to use your new toys. Good luck! Jim Phelps, with an inspiration by Guy Grand, The Magic Christian Dear Mr. Phelps, You recently requested that we process a change of addrass on your subscription to FLY FISHERMAN. We are unable te locate your subscription record. Please return this card with a recent label noting the date and tere cf ycur crder. In the event you rot every 10 eee dropped erations maxes re Thank you. delayed because they're routed tothe wrong post office, an internal i Postal Service sty sys. Atsistant Postmaster General Pete Dorsey Always include your 2ip code as the frig computer is REREL related the survey's findings to the service's governing board This ——tpe Post office will not deliver your 4 half dozen or so of Yemerday whec he taki the routing errors arise from mechanical or magazine without a correct ziP these, and I've never and burnan raistahee as well as improper ZIP codes. Dorsey sald (here were fewer roxting errors before humans were replaced by <a— This??? code. heard of some of the magazines! Dear sirs: You've heard al} about the electronic stun Gun, the Taser. You may be surprised to learn that I devised’ and built a very similar weapon some 25 years ago. Altho ay device was very crude and clumsy (it weighed 12 Tos, was bulky and had to be arranged on a belt and worn under a bulky topcoat) it was nevertheless a most devastating weapon and indispensable in a country which was in the middle of a wave of violence equal to that here today. My device was superior to the Taser in that it was capable of several shots before recharging and the darts were instantly retractable and reusable almost indefinitely. I used it on some really vicious thugs and was very grati- fied with the results. In every case they were totally inca- pacitated and suffered some very distressing traumas. They all suffered violent muscular contractions which dislocated Joints, tore ligaments from the muscles, and caused respir- atory arrest and crossed ribs. One of them impacted his lower teeth into the uppers. Some of them lost control of bowels and bladder, with such force that they burst their hemorrhoids, and expelled the contents of their stomachs at the same time. The thugs became very bloody, sticky, smelly, pissy, shitty messes. I did not wait around to evaluate the results, but learned of them from a lady friend who was a nurse in the emergency ward. Like the Taser, my weapon used a flashlight beam for aiming. The electrodes shimmered and scintillated in the light and this was the first thing the thugs remembered when they were able to talk, They were convinced they had been hit with a “Death Ray". At that time lasers and transistors had not been invented, and everyone dreaded what the Russians were up to. Twas delighted with the success of my invention, and fool- ishly applied for a provisional patent. This was my undoing. A few days later two detectives called at my house, demanded that I hand over the weapon, and then searched the place (with- out warrant, of course). They had no idea what they were looking for and left the device where it was, on the bench, disassembled. However, they did take away some expensive radar gear, and demanded that I give them the plans, When I refused and threatened to sue them, they gave me 24 hours to think about it and said they would be back. They never did come back, and are probably still wondering how I could possibly build a Death Ray out of what they stole. I did not dare rebuild my device and kept the design in my head. The provisional patent was delightfully vague and only told what my invention did, not how. When I came to America I was able to legally own a gun for protection and, as this is much more convenient, I didn't bother with the Taser again, at least until recently. Last year some re-invented the Taser (at least that's what they call it - mine didn't even have a name, so I'l] call it the Taser "A" or TaserA). Of course I was deeply intrigued and wrote to the mfr, telling them of my prior invention and of its ‘superior features and offered to sell them the idea. I wrote three times and they did not have the courtesy to answer any of them, I thought of making and selling the device but the BATF has now declared the Taser to be a firearm and subject to registration, and they would most likely make it all but impossible for me to manufacture the device. I am in a simi- lar position to the would-be merchants of red, white, and blue boxes. Your organization is doing the next-best thing. You offer plans for these gizmos, How would you like to offer your readers plans for a do-it-yourself Taser? {VES!7 The plans are still in my head so if the FBI, CIA, or AFL-CIO is reading this and planning to watergate me, they can forget it. I've been that route before. The cost today of my home-made version would be about $30 {thirty dollars!) using readily obtainable parts from hard- ware, automotive, and thrift stores. If you should decide to “sophisticapholize” my original design and apply the latest technology of electronics, the finished product would cost about the same and would be the size of a pocket tape recorder. I invented several other useful devices including a tear gas gun and a pocket flame-thrower, Both of these worked well but I never had an opportunity to try them out in normal city life, and after my bad experience with the TaserA, 1 did not want to attract any unwelcome official attention. Please let me know soon if you are interested. I'm sure we can work out something to our mutual advantage and in the best interest of science. We need to develop a method of fooling the voice print iden- tification system. There are all sorts of possibilities to introduce electronic distortion. One simple method would be to use a voice muffler. The core tube of a toilet paper roll lined with fiberglas or sponge rubber can introduce enough distortion and a piece of tissue paper wrapped around a comb inserted in the rol) will produce some static, The beauty of this is that it's a throwaway device. Now here 1s a foolproof way to fool a lie detector, be it polygraph or voice stress analyzer, HYPNOSIS: A good subject in the hands of a very good hypnotist can be programmed to believe that the lies he will tell at a job interview or a court trial, are in fact, true.. Lie detectors are very unreliable on certain people, such as salesmen, politicians, and white collarscriminals. This is because they have trained themselves to be good liars. A salesman's lies éften show up in his voice and in his facial expression. That is why a successful salesman must always believe in himself, his merchandise, and his sales pitch. It's impossible to convince others unless you believe ft yourself, 90 you get the tdea? KayvaR We are VERY interested, We wrote you at the address you gave us, but the letter came back "Unknown", Please contact usit! oP dim, Is "Guy Grand" a real person (TAP #42), or is he a fictit- fous character you made up so you could interview yourself? Tom told me all the “Ask Hr. Phelps” questions were synthetic. Some of the coin-op (actually coin-returning, if you can believe it) lockers here use the kind of keys that the TAP article #35 said were used on parking meters. Neat! Are the dupe machines impossible to get, even by midnite discount? How true is Iljuminatus! anyway? Ted Vail Ton told you? Et tu, Tom? All of the My interviewee was a REAL Smarteass kid! questions were actually asked, person. Considering his bulk, { could almost say "larger than life". I met him thru a Libertarian Party State Chair- person. Considering the apathy of voters, that seems to be all the LP is good for: meeting a few good people, This SC, ‘Jncidentally, was the first one to be accused of misappropria- ting Party funds. It happens in the best of families. The Ilco 21828 Mil-A-Key Key machine sells for $310 and this may be an old price. I used a borrowed New Hermes en- graving machine which costs even more. Those lockers are used by private individuals and I don't advocate ripping off people, only companies. Who really knows anything about the Illuminati’ Remember ny review and your niscion in $32? Jr Mission Incredible Anyone who read about the Israelis’ raid on Entebbe could not fail to be impressed, Did they carry their own magni fi- cent Uzi Submachinegun? No! They used the MAC-MIO with “sound suppressor". See TAP #52. iM PARTS and assombiies tor SMGs, Tam running this ad as a public unesrand'uone siswer se an ee service. 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Blue, tan, or yellow, TAP "Cracked Bell" Button - 50¢ each. ‘TAP Cassette Tape - $3.50. Hear Capt Crunch, Al Bell, Joe Engressia, and Bell Security Chief John Doherty. ZAP "The Telephone, #1" artist print - $3.50. Mounting instructions for Box concealment included. TAP "Ma Bell Is A Cheap Mother" Patch - $1. 50. Send cash. check, or money order to: TAP, Room 418, 152 West 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10036 ‘This is a mail drop only. Your Mission: Join Operation Mindfuck Driving at speed across the Great Plains, I noticed in the distance one of the very infrequent billboards. SOCIAL SECU- RITY it said in large letters. As 1 approached, I wondered what the fine print said, Out here one never knows. Maybe a welcome critical blast by the John Birchers? Alas, no. Information Call 1-800-xxx-xxxx (It's different for each state. Call 1-800-555-1212 to learn the # for the state you live im) Social Insecurity also known as Social Slavery has a toll- free number we can use to learn about all the wunnerful bene- fits which (hopefully) await us. Or...we can use the # to subtly, gently,...harass! We can ask if it's true that The System is a bankrupt pyramid scheme which we'll never get as much out of as we're forced to “contribute”. We can ask how to apply for "non-religious conscientious objector" status and stop throwing money away. Me can implant the seeds of doubt in bureaucrats’ minds (or whatever they have),..tie up the lines...innocently, of course. Remember the “turn in a junkie” toll-free #? It didn't work too well. People either ignored it, or turned in anyone they didn't like, junkie or not, Hail Eris! ap Buggers Beware... 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Ueegey any possible existing sarreptitious sur- Iyer concludes. “eon esbssk pe OR Books on improvised weapons, seifdetenae, "reareaing, egal ott: Long-time readers will recall my article in #33 about the and. paralegal activities, lock- Just kidding Universal Product Code used in supermarkets and how to rip it Picking, maney-making opportun, : off by gluing low priced codes on high priced items. The June explosives survival skills, and oon Oka. couple 1978 Mother Jones featured an article about the experiences of mock, mur smote, ‘gery iapped by five pal a over three conspirators who did just that. The checker either be- tod net giren a taste ear lfeved the fooled computer rather than her own eyes, or didn't . indow | “Help. We ." care. Not all of them will be this dumb or apathetic. QUESTIONS FCR BUREAUCRATS... "Atta the les hey were stopped and eee ee ‘instead of gluing a UPC from a salt carton on a can of Years ago when the Lefi's pot smoters. Pye hands. ctims of The Midnight Knack. the Right snickered. Then the Right began experiencing - The Midnight Knock. Remember that Maryland collector whose inert grenade got him a BATF bultet in the brain? long slit ute people to reaie that The Government ts june hes Ns ova pet or be daca want gored, and to Hell with everyone else's. So the cancer of Government spreads. The sheep become apathetic or brainwashed by Tweedledee and Twee- ledum—and the cancer spreads. There is a ray of hope from time to ime, however. I can’t imagine how the Freedom of Informstion Act and the Privacy Act passed (with 1984 so few ‘years away), but some people are making ‘good use of it. Bill Drexler, the tax rebel (Box 22569. San Diego. CA 92122), de signed a “Public Servant's Quest He claims that “public servants’ by law to answer the ques- tions omit It reportedly fs very effective in dealing with bureaucrats, mast of whom do mot fike to reveal personal information, such as their home address, Thaven't had a chance to use one yet, but am looking forward to it. | believe that after San Jose s stack of these should ‘beat every Gun Show... ‘Jim Phelps New York. New York Soldier of Fortune March '79 use the UPC froma small size package of an item on the "large. economy size" of the same product. Address all mail and checks to : ROOM 418,152 W.42 ST, NY 10036 oP Published for informational purposes only by Youth Hot Line Reports, Inc.