{"id":566611,"date":"2010-05-17T11:24:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T15:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=84914"},"modified":"2010-05-17T11:24:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T15:24:19","slug":"bucking-nra-gun-owners-speak-out-in-support-of-barring-suspected-terrorists-from-buying-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566611","title":{"rendered":"Bucking NRA, Gun Owners Speak Out in Support of Barring Suspected Terrorists From Buying Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, the National Rifle Association held its annual gathering in Charlotte, N.C., where ThinkProgress <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=00wN15Qbrqk&amp;feature=player_embedded\" >asked<\/a> a number of participants whether the Second Amendment should extend to folks currently on the country&#8217;s terrorist watch list. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/05\/05\/AR2010050505211.html\" >Under current law, it does<\/a>.) The responses are a clear indication that, at least on this thorny issue, gun owners are more than ready to take on NRA leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Video after the jump:<span id=\"more-84914\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/00wN15Qbrqk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/00wN15Qbrqk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, the National Rifle Association held its annual gathering in Charlotte, N.C., where ThinkProgress asked a number of participants whether the Second Amendment should extend to folks currently on the country&#8217;s terrorist watch list. (Under current law, it does.) The responses are a clear indication that, at least on this thorny issue, gun owners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}