{"id":51705,"date":"2015-03-02T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51705"},"modified":"2015-03-02T09:46:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T15:46:42","slug":"51705","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51705","title":{"rendered":"Trial Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama Administration wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/www. washingtonexaminer.com\/article\/2560750\">ban popular rifle ammunition<\/a> on the grounds it could be used in handguns.<\/p>\n<p>We saw this under Clinton, too, with the \u201ccop killer\u201d bullet craze and fear of Thompson Center pistols. Then, as now, it was all cover for a ban they wanted all along.<\/p>\n<p>I saw this ammo at Cabellas a while back and thought \u201cI should stock up, for when case they ban it.\u201d But of course, I didn\u2019t own a .223 so I didn\u2019t buy any. Crap, another million dollar investment opportunity, wasted.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the other hand, if you are, or know, a lawyer, litigating the inevitable test cases will no doubt put some peoples kids through Ivy League schools\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Obama Administration wants to ban popular rifle ammunition on the grounds it could be used in handguns. We saw this under Clinton, too, with the \u201ccop killer\u201d bullet craze and fear of Thompson Center pistols. Then, as now, it was all cover for a ban they wanted all along. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,51,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-liberal-tyranny","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51705","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=51705"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51732,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51705\/revisions\/51732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}