{"id":4251,"date":"2012-03-30T09:33:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2012-03-30T09:34:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:34:12","slug":"penguicon-2012-geeks-with-gu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4251","title":{"rendered":"Penguicon 2012 Geeks With Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The party for Armed &#038; Dangerous readers is still on for Friday night at Penguicon, and we have a new event &#8211; actually, the return of an old favorite: Geeks with Guns.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s GWG is scheduled for 2:00PM on Friday the 27th; it will take place at the Firing Line range. We will be teaching basic firearms safety, handling, and pistol marksmanship; first-time shooters are welcome.  Experienced shooters are also welcome and may be drafted as range officers and assistant instructors.  Yes, I&#8217;ve done this before, and no, we&#8217;ve never had an injury &#8211; pistol shooting is statistically safer than golf. <\/p>\n<p>Important: please mail guns@penguicon.org with your intention to attend.  We need to give the range advance notice of roughly how many people will be showing.  Two dozen is pretty typical.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to regular John D. Bell for organizing. John will be passing around the hat for a few bucks each to cover the range fees.  Bring your own weapon if you have one, otherwise you can rent at the range or possibly borrow a friend&#8217;s. Newbs seeking instruction will be expected to buy their own ammunition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The party for Armed &#038; Dangerous readers is still on for Friday night at Penguicon, and we have a new event &#8211; actually, the return of an old favorite: Geeks with Guns. This year&#8217;s GWG is scheduled for 2:00PM on Friday the 27th; it will take place at the Firing Line range. We will be&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4251\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Penguicon 2012 Geeks With Guns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4253,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions\/4253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}