{"id":66837,"date":"2016-07-15T07:55:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T11:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66837"},"modified":"2016-07-15T08:10:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T12:10:13","slug":"brandon-wayne-isnt-being-completely-honest-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66837","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Wayne isn’t being completely honest with you"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"McAnally\"<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Last month, someone sent me this link and asked if Brandon Wayne was legit. He penned this article <\/a>in which he used his military career to boost his creds to condemn the ownership of AR-style rifles – a rifle that he admits that he owns.<\/p>\n

My weapons training began in college while in Army ROTC. While there, I enlisted in the Army National Guard Infantry. A few years later, I commissioned as an officer in the Army and in my career did tours in Afghanistan and Africa, was Airborne and Air Assault qualified, and commanded a support detachment for the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His real name is Brandon Wayne McAnally<\/a>, he was enlisted and then he commissioned as an officer. He did serve in Afghanistan and he was a commander of a Special Forces detachment. McAnally was a chemical corps officer of an artillery battalion in Afghanistan. His Special Forces detachment was actually the Chemical Recon Detachment at Fort Carson, Colorado.<\/p>\n

\"McAnally<\/a><\/p>\n

\"McAnally<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I’m sure that if he wanted you to know that, he would have told you in the introduction.<\/p>\n

Along with anyone else who has been to war, I understand how dangerous it is. Given the past few years everyone else in the world should know as well. Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria… Newtown, France, Orlando… It is an instrument of war. It was made to kill large amounts of people… in war. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

This is an assault rifle. I understand there is much derision in certain gun owner’s circles regarding this term, but that is the truth. This rifle was not made to go hunting. No one needs to take down thirty antelope inside of a minute to feed their family. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

As a responsible gun owner and citizen, I know that living in an atmosphere of paranoia of and isolationism from my government is the easiest path toward failing myself and my family.<\/p>\n

It’s time to grow up and have the discussion on gun reform. It’s time to grow up and realize that the world is a very different place from when the Constitution was written. It’s time to grow up and realize that none of us have any business owning an M4 or other high-capacity human assault rifle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, good for him. None of my firearms are for killing animals or hunting. They’re for self-defense – the same reason he may (or may not) have carried an M4 in Afghanistan, you know because that’s the only reason that a chemical officer in an artillery unit would have a weapon. <\/p>\n

I’m not calling this stolen valor, I’m just saying that McAnally should have been completely honest with his audience. Speaking of complete honesty, I wouldn’t have used that last name either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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