Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Gun Review: The Mosin-Nagant
Tom's
The Mosin-Nagant shines through as one of the most history-laden, pervasively distributed, and widely collected rifles. Through its long service history, it was carried by both reactionary and revolutionary, under Czar and commissar, and through the Great War and the Great Patriotic War. It fired the last shot against Nazism, which exported world revolution. Few military rifles have such a storied history.
The Mosin-Nagant was first conceived following events in the Russo-Turkish war of 1877. Russian troops armed with single-shot Berdan rifles came under repeating fire from Ottoman Winchesters, which reflected the need for a modern military rifle.
Following years of trials between two competing rifle systems, Russian artillery Capt. Sergey Ivanovich Mosin’s more simplistic design ultimately prevailed, and the 3-line rifle, Model 1891 was produced.
However, the final production rifle incorporated some of its Belgian competitor’s (Emile and Leon Nagant) better features, which lead to a patent dispute. In all, the rifle came to be known in Western media as the Mosin-Nagant, but still remained just “Mosin” to the Russians.
The Judge: Obama approaching totalitarianism
Not many weeks ago, Barack Obama announced that Congress was being uncooperative, so he would have to go it alone with executive orders to make changes he wanted for America.
Then he stated he is confident that the Supreme Court would not choose to overturn his health care law, through which the government requires Americans to buy a product approved by the federal bureaucracy or face fines.
His diminishment of two of the three co-equal branches of government has caught the attention many citizens, and now a legal expert has weighed in with a stark warning about the future of the nation.
“I think the president is dangerously close to totalitarianism,” Judge Andrew Napolitano, a Fox News analyst, said. “A few months ago he was saying the Congress doesn’t count. The Congress doesn’t mean anything. I am going to rule by decree and by administrative regulation. Now he’s basically saying the Supreme Court doesn’t count. It doesn’t matter what they think. They can’t review our legislation.
“That would leave just him as the only branch of government standing,” he said.
More @ WND
Homeowner Kills Teen Burglary Suspect
A homeowner shot and killed a burglary suspect Monday morning in the southeast Dallas neighborhood of Pleasant Grove and two more suspects were in custody.
The shooting happened at about 11 a.m. in the 7300 block of Vallejo Drive, near Jim Miller and Bruton roads.
According to police, three youngsters rang the doorbell and then ran to the back of the home, prompting the homeowner to call 911.
The trio then allegedly kicked in the back door and entered the home, where the unidentified resident opened fire, killing 14-year-old Luis Avila.
Two other 13 and 14-year-old suspects fled the scene and were later arrested. They face burglary charges, police said.
More @ My Fox DFW
School covers mural for depicting a man, woman & child
Via The Feral Irishman
A mural at a US high school was deemed so offensive that school officials were moved to conceal one particularly controversial scene.
Following negotiations, however, the shocking image depicted by teenager Liz Bierendy may now be viewed:
Bierendy, a junior, painted a mural depicting the life of a man ending with the man being married and standing with his wife and child.More @ WPRO
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