{"id":3722,"date":"2007-04-25T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3722"},"modified":"2017-11-29T13:52:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T19:52:01","slug":"machine-guns-not-illegal-for-the-more-equal-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/25\/machine-guns-not-illegal-for-the-more-equal-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Machine Guns Not Illegal For The More Equal Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move certain to bolster respect for law and order amongst the civilian population, we discover that police are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/illinoisnews\/story\/AE917C50FE8A0B1C862572C80011A66A?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">apparently allowed to personally own fully automatic weapons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Federal prosecutors dropped the criminal case against the last of three Illinois State Police officers accused of federal machine-gun law violations \u2014 and signaled Tuesday that charges against a fourth man may soon be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant U.S. Attorney James Crowe dismissed a charge of illegal possession of a machine gun against Special Agent John Yard of Collinsville.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because, you know, they&#8217;re just better than civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Someone let me know if I&#8217;m misreading this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move certain to bolster respect for law and order amongst the civilian population, we discover that police are apparently allowed to personally own fully automatic weapons: Federal prosecutors dropped the criminal case against the last of three Illinois State Police officers accused of federal machine-gun law violations \u2014 and signaled Tuesday that charges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18124,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions\/18124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}