The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
About 4 minutes and thirty seconds into the video, until about 7 minutes. Mike Huckabee talks about his views on the second amendment:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKHve5gd5yM[/youtube]
A sharp contrast from Hillary’s “I support the second amendment” nonsense. Hell, a sharp contrast to Bush if you ask me.
Well, the new revolver arrived, so I cleaned it up for it to get it’s picture taken:
Cleaned up pretty nice. I cleaned the thick greasy oil out of it and replaced it with some nice Friction Defense Gun Oil, from Brownell’s, and now the cylinder rotates into place and pushes forward rather nicely.
The downside to the Nagant revolver is the price of the ammo. Bitter asked “What’s so unusual about it?”, and my response was “Have you ever seen an uncircumcised penis?” Either way, 40-50 cents a trigger pull is steep, but someone said the other day there’s a way to reload for it. It’s also a pretty weak cartridge, only generating 157 ft-lbs of muzzle energy. No wonder Rasputin lived:
Determined to finish the job, Yusupov became anxious about the possibility that Rasputin might live until the morning, which would leave the conspirators with no time to conceal his body. Yusupov ran upstairs to consult the others and then came back down to shoot Rasputin through the back with a revolver. Rasputin fell, and the company left the palace for a while. Yusupov, who had left without a coat, decided to return to grab one, and, while at the palace, he went to check up on the body. Suddenly, Rasputin opened his eyes, grabbed Yusupov by the throat and strangled him. As he made his bid for freedom, however, the other conspirators arrived and fired at him. After being hit three times in the back, Rasputin fell once more. As they neared his body, the party found that, remarkably, he was still alive, struggling to get up. They clubbed him into submission and, after wrapping his body in a sheet, threw him into an icy river, and he finally met his end there
The trigger pull is brutal too. It’s almost a two stage like trigger. Take up the slack and it rotates the cylinder, but then it takes a quite a pull to push the cylinder into the barrel and drop the hammer.
We’ll have to see how it shoots once I get some ammo, but I got it mostly just to have one.
… I don’t see the Governor spending a lot of time on this issue. I don’t see the legislature spending a lot of time on this issue either …
Read the whole thing. I think Spitzer’s dodgey answers on this issue is a good sign that closing the “musket loophole” probably isn’t going anywhere. No doubt Spitzer is no friend of gun owners, but it seems from what he’s saying he’s hoping this issue just goes away. We can only hope.
Bitter mentioned that she hearts farkers. This comes courtesy of Fark as well, and is very seasonal.
 
To Jeff Soyer at Alphecca. This is five years for him. I think I’ve actually been reading him nearly that long. It was actually all the attention Jeff got from Glenn Reynolds that made me realize there was a gun blogosphere, which is how I found and eventually met Bitter. So thanks Jeff! I hope I’ll be linking to you in another 5 for your 10 year blogoversary.
I wish there was more stuff going up today. I’m quite busy trying to convert my employer over to a nice, fast GigE network. We are already in awe over the increased speed of loading simulation data. We’re also discovering which cable drops in the building are marginal. Not much I can do about those without spending a lot of money for people to snake cable, so my strategy is to throttle those back to 100Base-T and hope none of the people who really need 1000Base-T have bad drops *cross fingers*.
I also have to do purchasing today.  If there’s one aspect of my job I hate, it’s purchasing. You’d think I’d like to shop for technological toys with someone else’s money, but that wears off pretty quickly. After a while you just get tired of dealing with the vendors. Even the ones who are easy to deal with. Everyone always wants this or that.
I usually won’t argue with people over what they need to do their jobs. Too many IT managers seem to take sadistic pleasure in denying folks basic things they need to do their jobs. I don’t do that. Whatever I can order for that person is pittance compared to what we’re spending on their salary. If a trackball mouse increases productivity of a six figure salary earner 1% it pays for itself.
Bitter highlights a good piece on the gun issue in the 2008 elections, which concludes with a bit showing why Joe Biden is still a turd. Could the people of Delaware do everyone else a huge favor and stop sending this guy back to the Senate? The rest of the country would thank you.
I’ve come to expect garbage from the Philadelphia Inquirer who’s never looked at replacing the wood furniture on a domestically assembled firearm made from some foreign parts, and having to figure out whether doing so will up the foreign part count to a sufficient quantity as to run afoul of Title 18 Section 922 Subsection (r) of the United States Code, causing your domestically assembled firearm to suddenly morph into an evil imported assault weapon.
Anyone who thinks gun laws are only about fighting crime, and can’t innocently trap honest gun owners, doesn’t have nearly enough experience with them.
The other Sebastian takes an anti-gun person shooting. It takes quite a leap to go from activist on the other side to the shooting range, and I have to hand it to Sebastian, that was quite a feat. His entire post is a must read, but here’s a quick excerpt:
The more interesting part of the evening was the drive home. Becky’s first time firing a gun had been a success, and she clearly had had a good time. I joked that much like Luke Skywalker playing with the laser droid thing…she’d taken her first step into a larger world. Becky remarked that since she’d left the gun control lobbying world, she’d realized that we gunnies aren’t a bunch of crazed maniacs trying to arm criminals for kicks; she further remarked that she thought the rhetoric was too heated all the way around, and that yes, much of what the Brady Bunch and the VPC promulgated was hysterics designed to provoke a reaction, not really anything that was meant to be factually accurate or sound grist for the public policy mill.
Sebastian’s new shooter-fu is clearly much better than mine.
… what Mitt thinks an Extreme Weapon is. They’ll tell you.