{"id":28382,"date":"2012-01-19T10:33:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T14:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28382"},"modified":"2012-01-19T11:58:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T15:58:05","slug":"emily-gets-her-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28382","title":{"rendered":"Emily gets her gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t been paying attention, the Washington Times is running a series of articles written by Emily Miller on the trials and tribulations of becoming a gun owner in DC. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/blog\/guns\/2011\/oct\/5\/miller-emily-gets-her-gun\/\">The series begins with her decision to buy a gun<\/a> when she confronts a large crowd of thugs in her neighborhood and realizes that she only has a Blackberry with a no-round magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than me posting all of the articles (there are more than ten) in the series, just go to the first link and click the links at the bottom of the page to the next article. It&#8217;s fairly obvious to me that DC wants to smother prospective gun owners with paperwork and hoops to jump through.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED:<\/strong> Speaking of guns and hoops, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/brooklyn\/fake_gun_fine_unreal_fdcYUeshHyvth4maEHXrpM\">New York Post<\/a> reports that a toy store owner in NYC was fined $30,000 for stocking toy guns.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he .44-caliber fines for the orange-tipped, obvious fakes are forcing him to close for good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t make any sense,\u201d said Khaled Mohamed, 23, manager of 99\u00a2 Target in Flatlands, which has been ordered to pay a staggering $5,000 fine for each gun offered for sale \u2014 the maximum under the law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s how you stop crime, put shop owners out of business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t been paying attention, the Washington Times is running a series of articles written &hellip; <a title=\"Emily gets her gun\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28382\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emily gets her gun<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28382","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}