{"id":2689,"date":"2008-06-11T04:55:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T09:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2012-02-16T07:38:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T13:38:13","slug":"heller-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2689","title":{"rendered":"This One&#8217;s For Heather Martens and Wes Skoglund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just to set the stage for the Supreme Court&#8217;s <em>Heller <\/em>decision, which should be coming out in the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Check this out:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3053\/2568547487_133d6429cc.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wow.  Lookit all those guns &#8211; most of them fully-automatic weapons.  And that ain&#8217;t the half of &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the other half:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3039\/2569373142_97fb4e238e.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nNot just fully-automatic weapons by the dozen!  Not just <em>big <\/em>ones &#8211;  two M2HB .50 caliber machine guns, another with the WWII aerial barrel, Russian and German water-cooled Maxims, and a Pearl-Harbor-vintage Browning water-cooled M1 .50, an even dozen Tommy guns, and a few AK-series that seem downright prosaic in comparison &#8211; but a <em>flamethrower.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why, with all those machine guns, this guy must have killed <em>hundreds <\/em>of people out in the street!<\/p>\n<p>Well, no.  It&#8217;s the gun collection of the late Charlton Heston, who never killed a guy that didn&#8217;t come back to life for the second take.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering if the estate will lend it to the MOB for &#8220;MOB Day At the Range&#8221;, coming soon to a firing range near you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to set the stage for the Supreme Court&#8217;s Heller decision, which should be coming out in the next couple of weeks. Check this out: Wow. Lookit all those guns &#8211; most of them fully-automatic weapons. And that ain&#8217;t the half of &#8217;em. Here&#8217;s the other half: Not just fully-automatic weapons by the dozen! Not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,82,22],"tags":[201,202],"class_list":["post-2689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-scotus","category-victim-disarmament","tag-heather-martens","tag-skoglund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26232,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions\/26232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}