{"id":4447,"date":"2016-06-16T15:36:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T19:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2016-06-16T15:36:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T19:36:28","slug":"why-i-need-an-ar-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/shared\/why-i-need-an-ar-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Need an AR-15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this well-written, reasoned piece explaining why someone would own an AR-15. The part that really hit me was this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The AR-15 is less a model of rifle than it is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2013\/02\/ar-15\/\">open-source, modular weapons platform<\/a> that can be customized for a whole range of applications, from small pest control to taking out 500-pound feral hogs to urban combat. Everything about an individual AR-15 can be changed with aftermarket parts\u200a\u2014\u200athe caliber of ammunition, recoil, range, weight, length, hold and grip, and on and on.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s less <em>a gun<\/em> and more <em>a framework for a gun<\/em>. That made a lot of sense to me. It&#8217;s a firearm that can be configured and used in a number of different ways.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  So cops and civilians \u201cneed\u201d an AR-15 because that one gun can be adapted to an infinite variety of sporting, hunting, and use-of-force scenarios by an amateur with a few simple tools. An AR-15 owner doesn\u2019t have to buy and maintain a separate gun for each application, nor does she need a professional gunsmith to make modifications and customizations. In this respect, the AR-15 is basically a giant lego kit for grownups.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t agree with it. But I can see the reasoning behind owning them. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@jonst0kes\/why-i-need-an-ar-15-832e05ae801c#.z5eg4meka\">Why I need an AR-15<\/a> is worth a read. Even if you don&#8217;t agree with the position. It explains why the weapon is so popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this well-written, reasoned piece explaining why someone would own an AR-15. The part that really hit me was this: The AR-15 is less a model of rifle than it is an open-source, modular weapons platform that can be customized for a whole range of applications, from small pest control to taking out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Post - Why I Need an AR-15","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[286],"tags":[1064,947,1065],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shared","tag-ar-15","tag-guns","tag-the-other-side","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/unsplash-gun.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4450,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions\/4450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}