{"id":5987,"date":"2015-06-16T08:25:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T13:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2015-06-16T08:25:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T13:25:15","slug":"what-if-you-could-legally-only-own-one-firearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/16\/what-if-you-could-legally-only-own-one-firearm\/","title":{"rendered":"What If You Could Legally Only Own One Firearm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><\/h1>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><span class=\"posted-on\">Posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2015\/06\/what-if-you-could-legally-only-own-one-firearm\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">June 15, 2015<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><em>By Major Van Harl USAF Ret<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_218435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-218435 size-full\" title=\"Scottish Hunter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Scottish-Hunter.jpg?10cd65\" alt=\"Scottish Hunter\" width=\"600\" height=\"376\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What If You Could Legally Only Own One Firearm?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_143424\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-143424\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Major-Van-Harl-USAF-Ret.jpg?10cd65\" alt=\"Major Van Harl USAF Ret\" width=\"225\" height=\"284\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Major Van Harl USAF Ret<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Wisconsin \u2013<\/strong>-(<a title=\"AmmoLand Reports\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Ammoland.com<\/a>)- \u00a0<em>\u201cBeware of the man who owns but one gun\u2013for he can shoot it\u201d<\/em> an old adage implying that a person who is only able to possess one firearm will somehow be extremely proficient and accurate when discharging that weapon.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure I really buy that thought process, since I have known a lot of people over the years who only owned one firearm. In most cases they used it very little and were not that good or accurate when they did fire their one gun.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is if you can only afford to own one firearm the chances are you cannot afford to buy the amount of ammo needed to enable you to practice firing said firearm, to become that person who can truly shoot as well as implied in the above statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>What if you have the resources to buy multiple firearms and all the ammo you might need to be a really good shot, but you are legally only allowed by law to own one firearm?<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For Americans multiple gun ownership is considered normal and is rather everyday common place, but not for many in the majority of the countries of the world that grant their citizens the \u201c<em>privilege<\/em>\u201d of limited gun ownership. I was in the police station in Dunoon, Scotland speaking to a senior police sergeant about how a Scottish citizen goes about trying (<em>not always successfully<\/em>) to legally acquire a long gun.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the article <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2015\/06\/what-if-you-could-legally-only-own-one-firearm\/?utm_source=Ammoland+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=11d3cceff9-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_6f6fac3eaa-11d3cceff9-20724777#axzz3dEM2VmI5\">HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Something to think about.<\/p>\n<p>Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on June 15, 2015 By Major Van Harl USAF Ret What If You Could Legally Only Own One Firearm? Major Van Harl USAF Ret Wisconsin \u2013-(Ammoland.com)- \u00a0\u201cBeware of the man who owns but one gun\u2013for he can shoot it\u201d an old adage implying that a person who is only able to possess one firearm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[74],"tags":[455,1551,470],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}