{"id":443,"date":"2022-10-25T09:37:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:37:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:37:05","slug":"gun-meme-of-the-day-gun-range-groupon-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Gun Meme of the Day: Gun Range Groupon Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Dear Ann Landers,<\/p>\n<p>I have a question about backyard shooting. A friend of mine inherited 41 acres in upstate NY just outside of a medium-sized town. He told me he set up a shooting range on the property. I asked him what he used for a backstop. He said \u201cthe woods\u2019. I asked, \u201cYou mean the rounds go through the targets and into the woods? And if you miss the target the rounds to straight into the woods?\u201d He said, \u201cYes\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>That does not seem safe to me. Rounds from an AR and even his 45 can travel far. He seems confident there is no risk to people but, I am hesitant. Also, the potential to wound deer and other critters, causing needless suffering seems real. And, what if, just what if, some hikers or bird watchers happen to be out there?<\/p>\n<p>Am I being too scrupulous?<\/p>\n<p>Signed, Concerned About Safety.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/gun-meme-of-the-day-gun-range-groupon-edition\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Ann Landers, I have a question about backyard shooting. A friend of mine inherited 41 acres in upstate NY just outside of a medium-sized town. He told me he set up a shooting range on the property. I asked him what he used for a backstop. He said \u201cthe woods\u2019. I asked, \u201cYou mean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}