{"id":64521,"date":"2016-02-25T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64521"},"modified":"2016-02-24T19:46:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T00:46:19","slug":"tennessee-designates-a-state-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64521","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee designates a &#8220;State Rifle&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=64522\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64522\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Barrett-82A1-300x196.jpg?resize=300%2C196\" alt=\"Barrett 82A1\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Barrett-82A1.jpg?resize=300%2C196&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Barrett-82A1.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Chief Tango sends us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/news\/politics\/state\/story\/2016\/feb\/24\/tennessee-names-barrett-50-cal-states-official-rifle\/351788\/\">Nashville<\/a> which announced that the Tennessee legislature has named a &#8220;state rifle&#8221; &#8211; the Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifle;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The vote was 27-1 for House Joint Resolution 231, which designates the recoil-operated, 50-caliber semi-automatic rifle developed by Ronnie Barrett, a Tennessee native and owner of the  Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Co.<\/p>\n<p>Barrett, a National Rifle Association board member, was 27 when he invented the rifle. The weapon is manufactured in Christiana, Tenn., outside Murfreesboro. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes while California and New Jersey have outlawed the sale and possession of .50 caliber rifles, a favorite of long-range shooters. I can&#8217;t think of a single crime that has been committed with the rifle which usually sell for more than $5,000 &#8211; out of most criminals&#8217; price range. Ammunition is about $5\/round. <\/p>\n<p>But they are scary-looking aren&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link from Nashville which announced that the Tennessee legislature has named a &#8220;state rifle&#8221; &#8211; the Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifle; The vote was 27-1 for House Joint Resolution 231, which designates the recoil-operated, 50-caliber semi-automatic rifle developed by Ronnie Barrett, a Tennessee native and owner of the Barrett Firearms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Barrett-82A1.jpg?fit=500%2C327&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-gMF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}