{"id":28343,"date":"2020-01-14T01:48:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T07:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=28343"},"modified":"2020-01-14T01:48:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T07:48:56","slug":"28343","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=28343","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/gun-applications-in-new-york-jewish-community-spike-to-nearly-1-000-after-hanukkah-attack\">Gun applications in New York Jewish community spike to nearly 1,000% after Hanukkah attack<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Applications for gun permits are surging in New York\u2019s Rockland County after five Orthodox Jews were stabbed at a Hanukkah celebration at a local rabbi\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockland County Clerk\u2019s office reported a nearly 1,000% increase in gun permit applications in the week following the Dec. 28 attack. The county clerk received 65 new gun permit applications,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/01\/11\/gun-applications-surge-in-rockland-county-after-hanukkah-stabbings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0<i>New York Post<\/i>. Before the attack, the office received an average of about six applications a week.<\/p>\n<p>All but five of the new applications originated from the town of Ramapo, where the attack took place. Ramapo contains several heavily Jewish communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of people are worried, especially the large Hasidic and Jewish community in Rockland County,&#8221; said Erik Melanson, who owns Precision Gunsmiths in Rockland County. &#8220;I have had rabbis come in. Some of the rabbis already have concealed carry [permits].&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun applications in New York Jewish community spike to nearly 1,000% after Hanukkah attack Applications for gun permits are surging in New York\u2019s Rockland County after five Orthodox Jews were stabbed at a Hanukkah celebration at a local rabbi\u2019s home. The Rockland County Clerk\u2019s office reported a nearly 1,000% increase in gun permit applications in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=28343\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28345,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28343\/revisions\/28345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}