{"id":255135,"date":"2013-05-01T09:39:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=255135"},"modified":"2013-05-02T11:16:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T16:16:07","slug":"east-texas-city-urges-residents-to-own-firearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=255135","title":{"rendered":"East Texas City Urges Residents to Own Firearm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/05\/Gun-Barrel-City-logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/05\/Gun-Barrel-City-logo-150x150.gif\" alt=\"Gun Barrel City logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-255285\" \/><\/a>GUN BARREL CITY (AP) \u2013 An East Texas city is staying true to its name by passing a resolution encouraging homeowners to own a firearm. On April 23, the city council in Gun Barrel City approved the measure that urges residents to have a weapon in their home, \u201ctogether with ammunition.\u201d There are exemptions included in the resolution, such as for those with a mental disability or who \u201cconscientiously oppose\u201d having a weapon. The city 55 miles southeast of Dallas is steeped in firearms: Its logo features two revolvers and the motto is, \u201cWe\u2019ll shoot straight with you.\u201d Mayor Paul Eaton told Dallas station WFAA-TV that gun ownership is a right. \u201cWe don\u2019t need our rights taken away,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUN BARREL CITY (AP) \u2013 An East Texas city is staying true to its name by passing a resolution encouraging homeowners to own a firearm. On April 23, the city council in Gun Barrel City approved the measure that urges residents to have a weapon in their home, \u201ctogether with ammunition.\u201d There are exemptions included &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=255135\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas City Urges Residents to Own Firearm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 19:07:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255135"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255409,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255135\/revisions\/255409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}