{"id":8442,"date":"2024-08-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8442"},"modified":"2024-07-31T21:58:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T01:58:32","slug":"an-inspirational-story-of-an-american-rifleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/an-inspirational-story-of-an-american-rifleman\/","title":{"rendered":"AN INSPIRATIONAL STORY OF AN AMERICAN RIFLEMAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why does the Second Amendment Foundation fight for the right of 18- to 20-year-old Americans to buy firearms such as the AR15? Among other reasons, because if they\u2019re old enough to die fighting for their country with a <em>real <\/em>government-issue assault rifle or something much deadlier in their hands, they\u2019re old enough to buy an AR15 of their own and be practiced with it before they even enlist. American history is replete with legendary warriors who shot rifles to feed their families long before they entered the service. Think Alvin York, Audie Murphy, Carolos Hathcock, Chris Kyle and many more. <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonoutdoors.com\/article\/timothy-murphy-revolutionary-war-sniper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here,<\/a> thanks to <em>Ballistic <\/em>magazine, is the story of an American fighting man who, with his own rifle, changed the course of history long before the other heroes mentioned above:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does the Second Amendment Foundation fight for the right of 18- to 20-year-old Americans to buy firearms such as the AR15? Among other reasons, because if they\u2019re old enough to die fighting for their country with a real government-issue assault rifle or something much deadlier in their hands, they\u2019re old enough to buy an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8442","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\/8442","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=8442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8445,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442\/revisions\/8445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}