Capos and banjos: I've never understood why most five-string banjos go in for that tuning-peg on the side for the fifth string, instead of having the tuning peg dowbn a t teh bottom, with a little tunnel for the fifth string, luike "zither banjos" wich were quite common in England at one time. That reduced one capo problem.

But if I played the 5-string banjo seriusly, I think I'd try getting one of those built-in fifth string capos, and use it with a short Kyser to hold the other four strings.

Uncle J: As I said earlier in the thread or its daddy, I'm sure that most gun-owners in the States are reasonable people who can see the value of sensible limitations and requirments. What you said there fits into that. In fact they are such sensible requirements tht I would think only an extremist and fanatic could disagree with them.

But then you say "I got in trouble with some of my NRA cohorts" for advocating them - and the question is, why do you see people who think like that as allies, rather than enemies? Surely dangerous extremists who oppose ideas like that threaten to undermine support for the kind of gun policies you would favour?