{"id":172427,"date":"2025-08-05T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=172427"},"modified":"2025-08-04T16:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:20:48","slug":"daily-fgs-534","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=172427","title":{"rendered":"Daily FGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-172429 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/686-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/686-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/686-483x333.jpg 483w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/686.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thegunzone.com\/smith-wesson-model-686-review\/\">Smith &amp; Wesson 686<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark McCloskey Re-Takes Possession of AR-15 He Held to Ward Off BLM Protesters<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AWR Hawkins<br \/>\nMark McCloskey was able to go to the police station and re-take possession of the rifle he held on June 28, 202o, as he and his wife, Patricia, tried to keep protesters from their home.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News reported Mark held an AR-15 and Patricia held a pistol and they stood in front of their house as protesters marched through their neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation was opened on June 30, 2020, centered on the couple\u2019s use of guns to protect their property. Less than a month later, police seized the AR-15 which Mark was holding on that fateful day.<\/p>\n<p>Mark now has his rifle back:<\/p>\n<p>Mark McCloskey was able to go to the police station and re-take possession of the rifle he held on June 28, 202o, as he and his wife, Patricia, tried to keep protesters from their home.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News reported Mark held an AR-15 and Patricia held a pistol and they stood in front of their house as protesters marched through their neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation was opened on June 30, 2020, centered on the couple\u2019s use of guns to protect their property. Less than a month later, police seized the AR-15 which Mark was holding on that fateful day.<\/p>\n<p>Mark now has his rifle back:<\/p>\n<p>Mark posted to X: \u201cIt only took 3 lawsuits, 2 trips to the Court of Appeals and 1,847 days, but I got my AR15 back! We defended our home, were persecuted by the left, smeared by the press, and threatened with death, but we never backed down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He told FOX News, \u201cThat gun may have only been worth $1,500 or something, and it cost me a lot of time and a lot of effort to get it back, but you have to do that. You have to let them know that you will never back down, you\u2019ll never give up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mark expects that Patricia will be able to re-take possession of her pistol this week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No Score<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2nd-amendment\/2025\/08\/03\/mccloskey-ar15-blm-possession\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.<br \/>\nChe Guevara<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smith &amp; Wesson 686 Mark McCloskey Re-Takes Possession of AR-15 He Held to Ward Off BLM &hellip; <a title=\"Daily FGS\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=172427\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daily FGS<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":172429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,406],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feel-good-stories","category-guest-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172428,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172427\/revisions\/172428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}