{"id":41619,"date":"2018-01-29T02:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T07:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41619"},"modified":"2021-03-19T18:39:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T22:39:22","slug":"how-the-u-s-got-shafted-out-of-the-fn-fal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/01\/29\/how-the-u-s-got-shafted-out-of-the-fn-fal\/","title":{"rendered":"How the U.S. got shafted out of the FN FAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jexf8A462jM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Legally Armed America<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 31 Dec 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The FN FAL is one of the greatest battle rifles ever made. Politics caused the U.S. to pass on it while nearly every other NATO country in the world recognized its superiority. And the 7.62 NATO is one of the greatest battle rounds ever made. But we needed an intermediate round. Here&#8217;s the story.<\/p>\n<p>* Be sure to join the web&#8217;s ONLY 100% pro-gun social community, Gun District at <a href=\"http:\/\/gundistrict.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GunDistrict.com<\/a>. It&#8217;s much like Facebook, but without the discrimination against gun owners. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legally Armed America Published on 31 Dec 2017 The FN FAL is one of the greatest battle rifles ever made. Politics caused the U.S. to pass on it while nearly every other NATO country in the world recognized its superiority. And the 7.62 NATO is one of the greatest battle rounds ever made. But we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7,15,13,663],"tags":[523,108,1412,49,220],"class_list":["post-41619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-technology","category-usa","category-weapons","tag-belgium","tag-coldwar","tag-fnfal","tag-guns","tag-nato"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aPh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41621,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41619\/revisions\/41621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}