{"id":9026,"date":"2015-04-22T03:40:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T03:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9026"},"modified":"2015-04-22T03:40:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T03:40:21","slug":"oops-congressman-caught-with-assault-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9026","title":{"rendered":"Oops … congressman caught with assault rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ken Buck is a Colorado member of Congress who, I guess, likes to be photographed with high-powered weapons.<\/p>\n

He needs to take care where he records these events.<\/p>\n

The Republican lawmaker was photographed recently packing an AR-15 assault rifle. He was posing with fellow GOP U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/us-congressman-who-posed-with-gun-in-office-could-face-probe\/ar-AAbsBnC<\/p>\n

What’s the problem?<\/p>\n

The District of Columbia prohibits these kinds of weapons. Thus, Buck may have broken the federal district’s gun laws.<\/p>\n

Buck calls the rifle a “beautiful, patriotic paperweight.” It’s pained red, white and blue.<\/p>\n

Local laws are to be followed, correct? So, if the District of Columbia bans ownership of these firearms, does it prosecute a member of Congress for breaking the law?<\/p>\n

Let’s all stay tuned to this one.<\/p>\n

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Ken Buck is a Colorado member of Congress who, I guess, likes to be photographed with high-powered weapons. He needs to take care where he records these events. The Republican lawmaker was photographed recently packing an AR-15 assault rifle. He was posing with fellow GOP U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina. http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/us-congressman-who-posed-with-gun-in-office-could-face-probe\/ar-AAbsBnC What’s the … Continue reading Oops … congressman caught with assault rifle<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[429,849,1290,2648,4905],"class_list":["post-9026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-ar-15","tag-capitol-hill","tag-dc-gun-laws","tag-ken-buck","tag-trey-gowdy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}