{"id":12218,"date":"2019-09-28T15:28:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T15:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=12218"},"modified":"2019-10-11T15:48:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T15:48:01","slug":"shane-will-be-joining-the-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=12218","title":{"rendered":"Shane Will Be Joining The Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5586,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.supremecourt.gov\\\/opinions\\\/09pdf\\\/08-1521.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251229170138\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.supremecourt.gov\\\/opinions\\\/09pdf\\\/08-1521.pdf&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 08:48:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 08:48:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I met Shane Thurston for the first time at the Gun Rights Policy Conference held in Chicago. That was the year after the win in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/09pdf\/08-1521.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McDonald v. Chicago<\/a><\/em> and the late Otis McDonald himself was there. He and I would then meet periodically at GRPC over the next number of years and became friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year we started talking about him contributing to the blog and he agreed. While I have resisted adding others besides the Complementary Spouse to the blog, Shane brings something to the blog that I can&#8217;t. That is, he knows what it is like to be a gun owner behind enemy lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He lived in the Chicagoland area for many years and now lives in Westchester County, New York. Sometimes work and your spouse&#8217;s work doesn&#8217;t leave you with many options. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will be writing about guns, the Second Amendment, and personal safety from that perspective. He will be submitting pieces on an occasional basis which I hope becomes more regular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a picture of Shane when he first learned about the NY SAFE Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"763\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Kaiser.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Kaiser.jpg 763w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Kaiser-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, actually, it might be a picture of his standard poodle Kaiser but you get the drift.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Shane Thurston for the first time at the Gun Rights Policy Conference held in Chicago. That was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1423,4582,4844],"class_list":["post-12218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blogging","tag-gun-rights-policy-conference","tag-shane-thurston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12220,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12218\/revisions\/12220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}