{"id":4154,"date":"2017-04-28T20:12:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T00:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2017-04-28T20:12:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T00:12:46","slug":"2017-nra-annual-meeting-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/2017-nra-annual-meeting-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 NRA ANNUAL MEETING, DAY ONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Spent the first day of the meeting at the annual Firearms Law Seminar, conducted off-site at the downtown Westin in Atlanta.\u00a0 Emceed by Carol Bamberry, a formidable pro-gun litigator who made the thing work like a Swiss watch, I found it every bit as instructive as it was intended to be. List of topics and speakers can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/2017\/04\/19\/nraam-2017-and-two-particular-highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/2017\/04\/19\/nraam-2017-and-two-particular-highlights\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Evil Princess went over to the anti-Trump, anti-gun \u201cDie-In\u201d and found it, well, dead.\u00a0 Our friend Miggy Gonzalez got the same impression, here: <a href=\"http:\/\/gunfreezone.net\/index.php\/2017\/04\/28\/atlanta-first-round-of-anti-nra-protest-is-a-notable-meh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/gunfreezone.net\/index.php\/2017\/04\/28\/atlanta-first-round-of-anti-nra-protest-is-a-notable-meh\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Pickings are reportedly kind of thin this year insofar as new product introductions.\u00a0 Springfield Armory\u2019s recent suspense-filled intro turned out to be their first traditional double action semiautomatic pistol, a 9mm single-stack called the XDE.\u00a0 The safety\/decock lever works the same way as the one on a Variant 1 HK USP or a current style Taurus PT-92.\u00a0 Looking forward to giving it a live fire test drive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I didn\u2019t make it to the Trump appearance, since I was one of the speakers at the Legal Seminar at the same time, but those who did tell me they found him personable, upbeat, and humorous. He declared his continued support for Second Amendment issues, but at least one activist said he was disappointed the President didn\u2019t create an executive order to eliminate gun-free zones like \u201che said he would.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent the first day of the meeting at the annual Firearms Law Seminar, conducted off-site at the downtown Westin in Atlanta.\u00a0 Emceed by Carol Bamberry, a formidable pro-gun litigator who made the thing work like a Swiss watch, I found it every bit as instructive as it was intended to be. List of topics and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}