{"id":6734,"date":"2013-04-17T17:43:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T21:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=6734"},"modified":"2013-04-17T17:45:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T21:45:03","slug":"pretty-sure-any-of-us-could-buy-a-rifle-today-no-questions-asked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/17\/pretty-sure-any-of-us-could-buy-a-rifle-today-no-questions-asked\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Sure Any of Us Could Buy a Rifle Today, No Questions Asked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To: rodney.moore@ncleg.net; larry.pittman@ncleg.net<\/em><br \/>\n<em> cc: mickey.michaux@ncleg.net<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Date: 4\/17\/13<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dear Sirs:<\/em><br \/>\n<em> \u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I read the bill, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncleg.net\/Sessions\/2013\/Bills\/House\/PDF\/H956v0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Regulate Ownership of Aggressive Dog Breeds<\/a>,&#8221; and my question is what are the requirements for NC\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>gun<\/b><\/span>\u00a0owners? Must\u00a0<b>they<\/b>\u00a0submit to a criminal background check? Do they have to complete a safety course of no fewer than 4 hours? What about notifying their home insurers? Are they required to get a special permit from the Department of Insurance?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> \u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em> These are not rhetorical questions. I&#8217;ve done research online, and I believe the answer to all questions is no. (From what I understand, a permit is required for a handgun but not for rifles\/shotguns.) Please let me know if I&#8217;m mistaken, but if I&#8217;m not, you, Mr. Moore and Mr. Pittman, have your priorities vastly out of whack.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> \u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I won&#8217;t even get into the inanity of profiling dogs by breed.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> \u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Sincerely,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Amy Scott<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You guys, if you give a crap about this issue even a little tiny bit, please write your legislators. For me and Violet and Redford and Buffy and Tulip and &#8216;Nita.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6733\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_0629.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6733\" alt=\"Littlest Niece with the very aggressive Redford last summer.\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_0629-e1366233821970.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"485\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Redford is so very aggressive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: rodney.moore@ncleg.net; larry.pittman@ncleg.net cc: mickey.michaux@ncleg.net Date: 4\/17\/13 Dear Sirs: \u00a0 I read the bill, &#8220;Regulate Ownership of Aggressive Dog Breeds,&#8221; and my question is what are the requirements for NC\u00a0gun\u00a0owners? Must\u00a0they\u00a0submit to a criminal background check? Do they have to complete a safety course of no fewer than 4 hours? What about notifying their home &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/17\/pretty-sure-any-of-us-could-buy-a-rifle-today-no-questions-asked\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pretty Sure Any of Us Could Buy a Rifle Today, No Questions Asked<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animules","category-first-world-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6734"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6744,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6734\/revisions\/6744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}