{"id":4,"date":"2007-04-19T13:42:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T17:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/secondthoughts\/2007\/04\/19\/chemical-propellant-spray\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T13:42:36","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T17:42:36","slug":"chemical-propellant-spray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/secondthoughts\/2007\/04\/19\/chemical-propellant-spray\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical propellant spray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Second Amendment links, however imprecisely, the right to bear arms with the existence of a well-regulated militia. Are permanent resident aliens included in the well-regulated militia of the country?<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts appears to prevent resident aliens from possessing certain firearms:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Persons who are not citizens of the United States, and are residents of Massachusetts may not possess large capacity rifles, shotguns, handguns or non-large capacity handguns. These persons may only possess non-large capacity rifles, shotguns, ammunition, and chemical propellant spray.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Second Amendment links, however imprecisely, the right to bear arms with the existence of a well-regulated militia. Are permanent resident aliens included in the well-regulated militia of the country? Massachusetts appears to prevent resident aliens from possessing certain firearms: Persons who are not citizens of the United States, and are residents of Massachusetts may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/secondthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/secondthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/secondthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/secondthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/secondthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/secondthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/secondthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/secondthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/secondthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}