{"id":68562,"date":"2018-11-15T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68562"},"modified":"2018-11-14T09:04:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T15:04:19","slug":"naughty-and-nice-lists-now-via-nics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68562","title":{"rendered":"Naughty And Nice Lists:  Now Via NICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/wisconsin-company-buys-employees-firearms-for-christmas\/507-614385410\">gives its employees their choice of handgun (reporter apparently thinks all handguns are &#8220;revolvers&#8221;) as a Christmas gift<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The business has 16 full-time employees, including several veterans. But the business also has employees who had never fired a gun, he said.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time his company has done anything like this, Wolfgram said. The father-son business was started in 2015 in a small garage workshop in this village of about 3,000 residents 100 miles northwest of Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>Most workers were excited at the prospect of receiving their handguns, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Employee Chelsea Priest of Green Bay said she feels as if the gift will empower her and will help keep her safe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve never been a part of anything like this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>At least two employees initially declined the gift but are considering accepting it after taking a gun-safety course that company executives required before giving the guns, Wolfgram said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Every time a person, and especially a company, sticks a finger in the eye of the likes of &#8220;Protect&#8221; MN, an angel gets its wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin company gives its employees their choice of handgun (reporter apparently thinks all handguns are &#8220;revolvers&#8221;) as a Christmas gift: The business has 16 full-time employees, including several veterans. But the business also has employees who had never fired a gun, he said. This is the first time his company has done anything like this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68562","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=68562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68563,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68562\/revisions\/68563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}