{"id":2944,"date":"2009-01-18T20:14:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T01:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2009-01-18T20:14:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T01:14:56","slug":"the-arms-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2944","title":{"rendered":"The Arms Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My closest friend,Partner, and his brother, have been at the range with me quite a few times; I have managed to get them addicted and they now compete for the largest collection of military arms.<\/p>\n<p>Partner, tonight, found and purchased a beautiful post ww2 garand. Clean and bright, finish intact, and not a major scuff or dent anywhere on the stock. Now the brother has to rachet it up. <\/p>\n<p>Partner already has a correct Garand sniper. And an Inland carbine, wood so sweet it&#8217;s like it was just machined. And a Krag with a mirror bright barrel and perfect wood. And an O3A3 that looks like it just came off the rack. I think his brother has him beat with Springfields and mausers, and has more short guns, including a sweet Uberti top break.<\/p>\n<p>Best part? I take them to the gunstores.<em> I<\/em> get them to buy the stuff.<em> I<\/em> get to go to the range with them and shoot it. And then <em>they<\/em> take it home and clean it. And I don&#8217;t spend a single dime.<\/p>\n<p>I have never felt this smart before, ever. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My closest friend,Partner, and his brother, have been at the range with me quite a few times; I have managed to get them addicted and they now compete for the largest collection of military arms. Partner, tonight, found and purchased a beautiful post ww2 garand. Clean and bright, finish intact, and not a major scuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}