Pre-emptive spin destruction -

When someone claims that the penalties for not having insurance under the bill just passed by the House are governed by:

Section 7203 – misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.

Section 7201 – felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.”

http://republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=153583

***There is no section 7203 or 7201 in H.R. 3962. It ends at 3205.***

Those are laws in the IRS tax code for failure to pay TAXES.

Do a word search and you'll find "felony" only once in the bill, and you won't find "evasion" anywhere. The only reference to "prison" is that prisoners are not eligible under the bill, and government officials who release confidential information can be imprisoned.

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So I took the Nagant to Cabelas today and had them take a look at it.

The door guys barely managed to check the thing with my help, but were nice enough.
Cleared it, put a trigger lock in, and walked it back to the gun library.

Apparently they have a gun library. Apparently that's what they call the fancy wood paneled place in each Cabelas that has all the absurdly expensive shotguns, ancient lever action rifles, class III, and other toys of the wealthy.

Poor guy was extremely overworked, but eventually got to me.
Pulls the bolt back, pulls the trigger, and out comes the whole assembly. Nice.
Looks in all its nooks and crannies with a little hand held light-camera-colonoscopy-lookyloo device. Guffaws once, but doesn't explain.

After about 10 minutes, he asks if I had it refinished. Uh, no, just bought it from Big 5, why?

It seems that Piotr (yes, I have named it, deal with it ....no, I haven't named anything else, so shut up) was built, tested, and then stuck away in an arsenal since 1939. No marks on the bolt face from gas and particle blowback, no scrapes on the magazine from feeding rounds, all the original machining marks under the finish on the metal. Never used. Says it's the best condition Mosin Nagant he's ever seen, and that it's probably worth double what I paid for it.

What a nice man.

So today I took Piotr's virginity. Took that big ole Russkie bang-maker down to the range and put holes in some targets.

Kicks like a fewkin' mule. I feel like half a dozen midgets threw me a tiny boot party on just my right shoulder. I took about 5 shots standing, missed half of those, and the rest sitting and with the barrel on a block. Every shot rocked me back a bit, especially when standing.

I used the 180 grain Winchester hunting rounds, at a buck a pop, because that's all I found here in town. Online I've found cans of 440 bulgarian surplus in 140 grain ball for less than a C note, so that's definitely going on the credit card soon.

Tried once to fill the internal magazine, but it was being cranky and jammed up (read, user error), so I just shot each cartridge individually, ejected and saved the brass, looked 50 meters downrange with my cheap binoculars each time. Reload, repeat. The loading clips are cheap, get some with the surplus ammo.

Anyway, Piotr was very accurate when I was patient and stable. Not as much when I was standing and/or flinchy. I hit about 75% of my shots somewhere on center of mass, despite the high winds and total noobery.

Next time I'll try at 100 meters; allegedly it'll shoot accurately to 4 times that distance with the iron sights, and double that again when I can afford a scope. Noice.

So I was almost done with my last group when suddenly I hear *mrfmurrmur murf!* over the rangemasters PA. I turn back just in time to see the parking lot disappear in whirling tan, which then engulfed all of us, resolved into a massive dust devil, and swirled away over the hills.

So the rangemaster shut it all down for safety's sake.

Half an hour drive later I was home.
Cleaned Piotr.
Organized my range/bug out bag.
Repaired a broken velcro strap.

Not a bad day, considering I had no clients, and so did not earn anything. =P

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