{"id":58754,"date":"2016-05-12T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58754"},"modified":"2016-05-11T12:37:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T17:37:10","slug":"a-tale-of-two-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58754","title":{"rendered":"A Tale Of Two Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Gottwalt strapped on an AK47 and took a walk. \u00a0He was looking for trouble&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;in pretty much the same way Martin Luther King was. \u00a0He set out to flush out an illegal law.<\/p>\n<p>And he found it. \u00a0While the Sauk Rapids cops knew the law &#8211; citizens with carry permits\u00a0<em>are\u00a0<\/em>allowed to carry uncased long arms in public &#8211; the Saint Cloud PD didn&#8217;t. \u00a0They arrested Gottwalt, citing a city ordinance.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll let the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance take up the story next:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WiN4oJz5Fps\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As Professor Olson notes in the video, Saint Cloud can&#8217;t regulate guns differently than the state does, due to the state&#8217;s pre-emption ordinance.  Which makes the SCPD&#8217;s arrest an illegal one. <\/p>\n<p>Gottwalt is sueing the city.  I hope he wins and wins big.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Gottwalt strapped on an AK47 and took a walk. \u00a0He was looking for trouble&#8230; &#8230;in pretty much the same way Martin Luther King was. \u00a0He set out to flush out an illegal law. And he found it. \u00a0While the Sauk Rapids cops knew the law &#8211; citizens with carry permits\u00a0are\u00a0allowed to carry uncased long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58754","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=58754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58755,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58754\/revisions\/58755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}