In the four weeks or so since I moved back to Bloomington, the weather has been warm and sunny for the most part. Good, right?
Wrong. It's been hot and dry (I think that it's only rained once so far), and the grass is turning an unhealthy shade of brown. I'm as fond of summer weather as the next person, but it's been in the 80's and 90's most days so far. Honestly, give me temperatures about five degrees lower and a bit of rain now and then, and I'll be happy as a clam.
This has been another frustrated rant from your friendly neighborhood college student.
Oh, and please feel free to click the adds. Tuition doesn't pay itself. >.<
Monday, September 20, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Update and Firearms Petition
Well, it's half-way through another week here, and the heat is still more or less as oppressive as it has been for the last few weeks. Allergies are high, making for an altogether miserable experience.
On another note, I was surfing the web a year or so ago, and I came across the website for a company called Izhmash. I don't know if any of you have heard of it, but they're the original manufacturer of the AK-47, and they export a line of sporting rifles and shotguns based on that system here in the United States.
One of the items that is not imported anymore, however, is the Tigr - the civilianized sporting version of the Dragunov SVD sniper rifle. It was banned in the mid-90's as a result of the anti-gun fever that swept the country at the time. In truth, the Tigr is no better or worse than any of the other types of sporting rifles on the market but due to the fact that it looks very much like its military counterpart, it was singled out for exclusion.
To remedy this, I have started a petition to hopefully allow these rifles to be imported once again. I have already written to the BATF on the subject, but many voices have far greater power than just one. I hope that you will sign this petition, if for no other reason than to correct an inadequacy in our importation laws that has stayed on the books for far too long.
http://www.petitiononline.com/izhtgr12/petition.html
On another note, I was surfing the web a year or so ago, and I came across the website for a company called Izhmash. I don't know if any of you have heard of it, but they're the original manufacturer of the AK-47, and they export a line of sporting rifles and shotguns based on that system here in the United States.
One of the items that is not imported anymore, however, is the Tigr - the civilianized sporting version of the Dragunov SVD sniper rifle. It was banned in the mid-90's as a result of the anti-gun fever that swept the country at the time. In truth, the Tigr is no better or worse than any of the other types of sporting rifles on the market but due to the fact that it looks very much like its military counterpart, it was singled out for exclusion.
To remedy this, I have started a petition to hopefully allow these rifles to be imported once again. I have already written to the BATF on the subject, but many voices have far greater power than just one. I hope that you will sign this petition, if for no other reason than to correct an inadequacy in our importation laws that has stayed on the books for far too long.
http://www.petitiononline.com/izhtgr12/petition.html
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