{"id":911,"date":"2003-05-06T16:13:43","date_gmt":"2003-05-07T00:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=911"},"modified":"2006-03-14T22:30:18","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T06:30:18","slug":"you-thought-you-could-get-away-with-trying-to-obey-the-law-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"you thought you could get away with trying to obey the law, eh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It never ends.  You&#8217;ve heard of Ronald Dixon, whom a New York prosecutor wants to put in jail for defending his baby with an unregistered pistol (shortly after moving to NY from Florida).  According to  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncc-1776.org\/tle2003\/libe222-20030505-06.html\">Mike Straw<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> . . . Dixon had conscientiously filed the necessary paperwork to [register his Ruger], paying a firm specializing in expediting applications for legal defensive firearm permits in New York City.  The company respectfully took his money, happily cashed the check &#8211; and then went out of business. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> What, by the way, does New York public opinion say?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Later:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/catallarchy.net\/blog\/archives\/2003\/06\/11\/ronald-dixon-gets-3-days\/\">The upshot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It never ends. You&#8217;ve heard of Ronald Dixon, whom a New York prosecutor wants to put in jail for defending his baby with an unregistered pistol (shortly after moving to NY from Florida). According to Mike Straw, . . . &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=911\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}