{"id":9140,"date":"2019-02-22T08:54:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T07:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9140"},"modified":"2019-02-22T09:09:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T08:09:50","slug":"armed-and-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9140\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed and Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I did my podcast with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/8655\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike in Switzerland<\/a> he mentioned gun laws over there allow you to keep a small arsenal in your house and fire them on ranges. Turns out Mike runs a rather successful YouTube channel called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC9k2WzcJ1kUMl4KIwNQwrFA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloke on the Range<\/a><\/em> featuring all sorts of firearms and he&#8217;s armed to the teeth. I&#8217;d never fired a handgun before so just after New Year I popped over to Mike&#8217;s alpine fortress and did some skiing, drinking, and shooting (not necessarily in that order). Here&#8217;s the video of my first attempt at firing pistols:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9I5qtrHDU30\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>TL\/DW: Nobody died and I hit the target. And it was <em>very<\/em> cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I did my podcast with Mike in Switzerland he mentioned gun laws over there allow you to keep a small arsenal in your house and fire them on ranges. Turns out Mike runs a rather successful YouTube channel &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9140\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83,82,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9143,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9140\/revisions\/9143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}