{"id":87881,"date":"2022-11-19T02:12:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T08:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87881"},"modified":"2022-11-19T02:12:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T08:12:39","slug":"87881","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87881","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Americas-Rifle-Stephen-P-Halbrook\/dp\/1637586809\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=GG6S6ACBQ1NC&amp;keywords=the+case+for+the+ar-15+halbrook&amp;qid=1668845460&amp;sprefix=the+case+for+the+ar-15+halbrook%2Caps%2C191&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America&#8217;s Rifle: The Case for the AR-15<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41MzBEtfSyL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\">This book is the definitive work showing the central place of AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles in the American story. From the founding to the present, rifles and other firearms have played a pivotal role in American history. The story of America\u2019s rifle is largely the story of American history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are over forty-four million AR-15s and similar semiautomatic rifles owned by Americans. Popular adoption on such a monumental scale is indicative of more than a passing fad; only proven utility through long history creates such lasting\u2014indeed growing\u2014demand.<\/p>\n<p>Since the founding of the American republic, rifles\u2014beginning with muzzleloaders and later semiautomatics\u2014have been at the center of American history and pre-history. This book, by renowned historian and attorney Stephen Halbrook, is the definitive account of this centrality of repeating rifles to the American story\u2014from its conception to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>Some factions of state and national politicians now seek to remake America in a different, novel image by rushing to ban and restrict access to firearms that have long been our heritage. As Halbrook decisively shows, theirs is a war against the Second Amendment and the tradition of freedom and self-sufficiency that has sustained our storied past. Our rights hang in the balance\u2014not as lone pillars but, history shows, as dominos ready to fall in quick succession.<\/p>\n<p>Halbrook comprehensively reviews the historical, legal, and policy arguments advanced by gun prohibitionists and demonstrates that these bans are deeply antagonistic to our history, our interests, and our Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s Rifle: The Case for the AR-15 This book is the definitive work showing the central place of AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles in the American story. From the founding to the present, rifles and other firearms have played a pivotal role in American history. The story of America\u2019s rifle is largely the story of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87881\" 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":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87881","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=87881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87882,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87881\/revisions\/87882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}