{"id":2442481,"date":"2019-04-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=302987"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:51:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T15:51:55","slug":"gun-control-letter-misfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/gun-control-letter-misfires\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun-control letter misfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The recent letter <a id=\"N0x2001b20N0x211e170:N0x2001b20N0x21cdbb0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/killer-weapons-too-accessible\/\">\u201cKiller weapons too accessible\u201d<\/a> has factual errors (March 23, The Aspen Times).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">According to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, \u201ceffective July 1, 2013 (HB13-1229) a background check is required for all private transfer of firearms which must be conducted through a licensed firearm dealer (FFL).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The AR-15 is not an \u201cassault rifle.\u201d As Wikipedia will confirm, an assault rifle is selective-fire (capable of burst and\/or fully automatic firing \u2014 a \u201cmachine gun\u201d). An AR-15 is semi-automatic, like many other common firearm models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">More people seem to be killed here on skis and snowboards than by firearms. Should we ban snow sports for the common good?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Trey Kinkead<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/gun-control-letter-misfires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent letter \u201cKiller weapons too accessible\u201d has factual errors (March 23, The Aspen Times). According to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, \u201ceffective July 1, 2013 (HB13-1229) a background check is required for all private transfer of firearms which must be conducted through a licensed firearm dealer (FFL).\u201d The AR-15 is not an \u201cassault rifle.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 04:20:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}