A Righteous Gun Law

Require registration of non-gun owners and require them to pay a fine? Sweet!

マルカイ

テレビジャパンのCMで知った、日本商品のオンラインショップマルカイ。値段は安くないけど、手に入れたければ買い道はある。

Caroline McCarthy

After reading an article by Caroline McCarthy that was above the typical c|net blog-type posts, I felt the need to google her for profile pictures bigger than the c|net bio thumbnail. Yeah, I e-stalked her for five minutes, haha.

Magazine.org has a bigger version of the bio thumbnail
ValleyWag, circa June 2008
Daily Style Phile, circa October 2008

McCarthy's also on Twitter, as one might expect.

Is it just me, or is she fairly stacked? Well, um, I read her for the articles.

xkcd

This is so, so sick: Movie Narrative Charts
Very timely: iPhone or Droid

GoodGuide

Hmm, maybe my idea is a bit late. GoodGuide is getting close....

Alternatives to Ikea

On a whim I searched for alternatives to Ikea and found a page that had some suggestions: 2modern, CB2 (apparently affiliated with Crate & Barrel), and Design Public. 2modern seems to be on par price-wise with Room and Board, and for that matter, Design Public is too. Not really alternatives....

The poster also noted Green Your Decor for eco-friendly furnishings.

I also found another expensive alternative: Design Within Reach. Seems like there are no cost-effective alternatives to Ikea, hence their appeal. When one can outfit an entire dining room for the price of just the table at Room and Board, it's just ridiculous. Well, this isn't going to be our final house, so why buy custom furniture for it, and some of Ikea's stuff isn't made in China, so I can at least not have that hanging over my head.

Go

Not the game, but the Google programming language. Taokodr posted a link on FB pointing to the Go site. Looks interesting. Wish I had time to learn new languages. One really needs a reason to spend the time.

Swedish Mauser

Information on the brass disk on the stock of a m/96:

The one screw disc is divided into 3 sections, each of which is marked in such a way as to reveal some information about that particular rifle. The smallest "slice" of the brass disc bears the numbers 1, 2, and 3 with a triangular punch mark over one of the numbers. This indicates the condition of the bore. No punch mark is perfect. 1 means a very few dark areas in the corners of the lands and grooves. 2 indicates rust in the corners of the lands and grooves and possible light rust in the grooves. 3 indicates spots of light rust throughout the grooves, but no sharp edges; this is still acceptable. A rifle scoring lower than 3 was rebarreled. My rifle is a 3, but any rifle passed by the Swedish armorers will shoot very well, as the inspectors were quite picky. The bore of my rifle looks good to the naked eye.

The next slice of the little brass disc indicates the elevation aiming error when shooting the standard m/41 Swedish service load, which used a 140 grain boat-tail spitzer bullet at a MV of around 800 m/s. There are three Swedish words in this sector of the disc. "Torped" indicates the 140 grain BT spitzer bullet (there was an earlier 156 grain RN bullet), "Overslag" means over, followed by a space and then "Str." Str is the abbreviation for streck, a unit of angle, and there are 6300 streck to a circle. Streck were used in a manner similar to the way North American shooters use minutes of angle. If there is a number in the blank space between Overslag and Str. it indicates the amount the rifle shoots over in terms of streck. 1 streck equals approximately 1/10 meter at 100 meters. So a 1 in the space on the disc indicates that rifle would shoot 10 cm (or a little less than 4") above the point of aim at 100 meters. The space is blank on my rifle's disc, indicating that it shoots to point of aim.

The largest slice of the disc has an outer and an inner arc of numbers. The outer arc bears numbers "6.51" followed by the numbers 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 (my rifle has a punch mark over the "2"). The inner arc bears the numbers "6.46" followed by 7,8,9,0 (no punch mark over a number in the inner arc on my rifle). It is my understanding that these numbers reveal the nominal bore (6.46mm) and groove (6.51mm) diameters of a new barrel. The punch mark(s) reveals the actual diameter of the particular barrel (and thus, presumably, any wear). Thus, my barrel has a groove diameter of 6.52mm. Apparently the bore diameter of my barrel measured right at 6.46mm.

If the groove diameter measures between 6.51mm and 6.53mm all was well. If the groove diameter measured 6.54mm-6.55mm the rifle was used only for training. If the groove diameter exceeded 6.56mm the rifle was rebarreled. The Swedes are very meticulous people!

That's good to know!

Another collector site has a picture of the disk.

Military Gun Supply has an m/96 for $300 in "very good" condition.

Medical

The wife was asking about whether or not we should have the kid get the H1N1 vaccine. Personally I don't like flu shots because I got the flu from one the last time I did. However, since the wife and kid are going to PAIIR now and are additionally exposed potential sources of infection, it may be a wise idea.

CNN had posted a couple things regarding the H1N1 vaccine, basically cribbed from the CDC [1 2].

There was also a decent piece regarding how to avoid having mistaken operations performed on you in the hospital.

S.G. told me about thiomersal/thimerosol in multi-dose vaccines. I'd heard of the alleged relationship between vaccines and autism, but not the mechanism. Maybe there's no correlation, but why the hell should I take a chance with my kid?

Pelican Products

Was looking at getting a Pelican flashlight with bore sight adapter from the NRA Store, but found it for cheaper from a distributor, Pelican Products, who also has a much better price on shipping. It's one thing to support an organization, and another for them to rape you on S&H, heavy emphasis on the 'H'. The MityLite 1950 would make a good Christmas present for gun folk, who like flashlights and never seem to have a bore light handy.

Animal Rights Idiots

While searching for close-ups of an NRA-published print, I came across some schmuck's blog post about some NRA brochure that was supposedly leaked. So I left a pointed comment, linked here for posterity.

I absolutely believe that the PETA terrorists who threatened the families of scientists who use animals in lab experiments should be snuffed out. What's more important, people or lesser creatures? So they're for baby-murder and against killing lab rats, what kind of fucked up logic is that?! And it was funny and sad how PETA issued a statement when Obama killed a fly on camera. I mean, what the fuck?! By now Obama must be starting to see all the looney tunes who voted for him crawling out of the woodwork.

Animal rights? Shit, they can have rights when they get together and draft themselves a fuckin' constitutional government.

Ok, so the above was somewhat facetious—I don't favor killing things unnecessarily, pro-gun though I may be. (If it's not a pest and you shoot it, eat it.) But still, PETA and their ilk are a bunch of psychopaths who don't have anything better to do with their lives.

鬼のパンツ

最近嫁が子供の世話をする時にそれに合う唄を歌うことにしている。おむつをかえることは、「鬼のパンツ」である。しかし、その歌詞にないところを加えたか、「トラの毛皮で　できている」ってゆー代わりに、「鬼の母さんが縫ってくれた」にしている。

いったい　なぜ　みんな鬼のパンツを履きたがるのだろうか。

Girls w/ Guns Pix

There are a few girls with guns pix on ReyTrajano.com, found via a calguns link.

Microdonations

Well, I'd been looking at doing an automatic donation NPO since United Way stopped hosting HGST's charitable donations for free. Maybe I don't need to?

Mac Tablet

If you can't wait for the iTablet or whatever, Axiotron mods Macbooks into a tablet. Pretty sweet-looking, if you ask me. Too bad I don't really have a use for it.

GunPal

What the firearms community has been waiting for: a gun-friendly version of PayPal. GunPal.

.50 BMG Eye Candy

A forum topic on Primal Rights has some pictures of various flavors of .50 BMG rifles.

Wingnuts, huh?

On a CNN op-ed "piece" from 10/7: Since when is the 'center' the right place to be? They're a bunch of people who don't stand for anything substantial and don't really care about anything but their tiny little lives. The article attempted to seem unbiased by mentioning leftists, but obviously this was a tirade against the so-called "right-wing extremists". Wingnut? Better than being a fucknut centrist, Johnnie Avlon.

Saiga-12

I've been interested in the Saiga-12 for a while because magazine-fed shotguns are hard to come by. The manufacturer, Izhmash, has a PR video that has been posted to YouTube. There's also a site dedicated to information about the Saiga-12.

According to Wikipedia, Izhmash is facing bankruptcy due to the global recession.

1より小さいかず

「にほんごであそぼ」で見たうなりやべべんの歌を聞いて気になったけれど、最初に意味が分からなかったから調べた結果、小さい数の単位であった。

Paypal Alternative

In a meeting at the moment, so I'm link blogging.

I bumped into a Paypal alternative someplace recently. This looks like an interesting payment method—I'll have to inquire if they're gun-friendly.

Life, Liberty, etc.

Pro-gun and pro-liberty products—what more could a guy ask for? They have some funky stickers and such.

Fuck the TSA

xkcd hits the nail on the head!!

Jessica Abbate

A post on arfcom turned me on to this gun girl, who's on Team Glock. Of course she'd have to have a champion shooter hubby.

Well, I'm going to have to set the daughter on the path to being a world-class shooter. I'd better improve my own skills first, though....

U.S.-Made Canteens

I saw something in an ad for "USCanteen" stainless steel canteens. It looked cool, so I checked the site. Of course they don't say where the product is made, but I found on a forum that they're made in Hong Kong.

If you want a real U.S. canteen made from stainless steel (the metal ones used in service this century were made from aluminum, it seems), head over to Fall Creek Sutlery, which has U.S.-made stainless steel, copper, and wood canteens, all made in the U.S. From this I learned the word "sutler"....