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
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