{"id":6510,"date":"2020-10-02T15:35:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T19:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6510"},"modified":"2020-10-02T15:35:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T19:35:42","slug":"a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-gun-rights-policy-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-gun-rights-policy-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE GUN RIGHTS POLICY CONFERENCE\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2026I wound up becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shootingwire.com\/releases\/d3096b58-2236-4593-ac41-a3aa33ecc763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"president of the Second Amendment Foundation (opens in a new tab)\">president of the Second Amendment Foundation<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been proud to serve for many years on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saf.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SAF (opens in a new tab)\">SAF<\/a>\u2019s Board of Trustees, and will serve to the best of my ability in the new capacity.\u00a0\u00a0I will continue to teach through <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MAG, (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com\" target=\"_blank\">MAG,<\/a> and to serve on the advisory boards of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armedcitizensnetwork.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ileeta.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (opens in a new tab)\">International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SAF\u2019s role in the world of gun owners\u2019 civil rights has been primarily in the arena of the courts, challenging unjust gun laws.\u00a0\u00a0Given the <a href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/where-we-stand\/the-issues\/preventing-gun-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Democrat National Party\u2019s official platform on \u201cgun control,\u201d (opens in a new tab)\">Democrat National Party\u2019s official platform on \u201cgun control,\u201d<\/a> a Democrat victory in the upcoming election will make the Second Amendment Foundation\u2019s mission all the more important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026I wound up becoming president of the Second Amendment Foundation.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been proud to serve for many years on SAF\u2019s Board of Trustees, and will serve to the best of my ability in the new capacity.\u00a0\u00a0I will continue to teach through MAG, and to serve on the advisory boards of the Armed Citizens Legal Defense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6511,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510\/revisions\/6511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}