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GreyGeek:
http://www.bobmunden.com/about/records-amazing-feats/

--- Quote ---A Note From Bob About The Guinness Book of Records

“In 1981, the year most shooting records disappeared from the Guinness Book, I called David Boehm of the Sterling Publishing Company and asked why. He told me that there is a committee that approves books to be used in school libraries across the nation. The committee informed Mr. Boehm that it would only approve the Guinness Book for continued use as a reference book in school libraries if gun records were removed. To protect the Guinness Book from a black list, that’s what the publishing company felt it had to do. If you look at recent editions of the Guinness Book of World Records, you will notice that most gun records by shooters using real firearms (not gimmicked with things like light-weight aluminum barrels,) are no longer listed, including those set by the famous Annie Oakley, Ed McGivern, Tom Frye and myself. It is a shame that a small group of people on that education committee, people who probably grew up in cities away from the shooting sports millions of Americans and citizens of many other nations appreciate and enjoy, can have the power to effectively erase history.”

– Bob Munden

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Back in the 1950s a "black list" of Hollywood actors suspected of being Communists kept many of them from working in the industry, but not for long.  However, they always bring that black list up when seeking sympathy.  This just goes to show that they are not against black lists, as long as their enemies are on them.

thirtydaZe:
pretty pathetic really.  i'm pretty anti-world saver, so it's the little things like this that really get under my skin.

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