Great report from Dave Weigel over at Reason’s Hit and Run blog on original D.C. handgun ban plaintiff Dick Heller’s return to the District’s gun registration office this morning. What happened yesterday was Heller showed up to register his 1911 single-action Colt .22 revolver, but he didn’t bring it with him, and the police told him to come back with the gun.

Weigel reports that Heller met with “partial success” today. Police took his finger prints and tested the gun’s ballistics, an he took a 20-question exam. Heller still has to come back in a week with two passport photos, and wait for the city to process his background check. There’s also apparently some question about whether his older gun qualifies as a “machine gun,” since it apparently holds more than 12 rounds.

In the video above, Weigel gets some circular answers from Heller on his reported bid to challenge D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton as a libertarian candidate. But our favorite part of the story is this quote from Heller:

On why he registered the colt: “I bought it because it was the gun they used in Gunsmoke,” Heller said. “That used to be our culture.”

Definitely curious which “culture” Heller is referring to here. The culture of watching incredibly popular television shows? The culture of U.S. Marshals trying to keep order in 1870s Kansas?