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McCloskeys win back AR-15 rifle 5 years
after Black Lives Matter protest confrontation

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Posted By: mc squared, 8/3/2025 12:21:34 PM

The St. Louis couple who went viral in 2020 for wielding guns as Black Lives Matter protesters marched outside their property have regained possession of their semiautomatic rifle. After a years long and complex legal struggle to reclaim their weapons after they were seized by authorities more than five years ago, police have returned the AR-15 to St. Louis lawyers Mark and Patricia McCloskey. “It only took 3 lawsuits, 2 trips to the Court of Appeals and 1,847 days, but I got my AR15 back!” Mark McCloskey posted to his X account on Friday, along with several photos of him carrying the gun. “We defended our home, were persecuted by the left,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Namma 8/3/2025 12:30:58 PM (No. 1986078)
great campaign add.. "We defended our home, persecuted by the left, harassed by the press, and threatened with death!" Very powerful statement!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: earlybird 8/3/2025 12:32:36 PM (No. 1986081)
Thanks for posting. Those BLM protesters were marching by on what amounted to a private road as I recall. Too close for comfort. Didn't the DA turn out to be a Soros plant?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: bpl40 8/3/2025 12:45:59 PM (No. 1986084)
No printing or publishing of gun deaths should be tolerated without corresponding reference to how many lives are saved by presence or use of firearms by law abiding citizens.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 8/3/2025 1:45:32 PM (No. 1986098)
There never should have been any charges against them. They did nothing wrong. Nothing.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Venturer 8/3/2025 1:50:26 PM (No. 1986099)
These were two lawyers working on their own to get their weapons back. It took them 5 years. What chance would you and I working through lawyers have? What would it cost? The powers that be there, know we could not afford to get our weapons back. This is bullshift to allow the law to treat us in this manner.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Msquared112 8/3/2025 2:11:02 PM (No. 1986107)
Great news!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: JrSample 8/3/2025 2:38:33 PM (No. 1986114)
If only they had been Tren de Aragua members protecting their turf, the libs would have been protesting for them to get their guns back.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: NamVet70 8/3/2025 3:24:17 PM (No. 1986121)
Justice delayed is ...
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Vaquero45 8/3/2025 4:17:30 PM (No. 1986139)
Kudos to those two for staying in the fight and prevailing. We all owe them a debt of gratitude. They exposed the government of St. Louis, as well as the police force, as incompetent and corrupt.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Strike3 8/4/2025 5:26:48 AM (No. 1986279)
BLM was considered royalty after the George Floyd suicide but their leadership turned out to be common thieves and hucksters. It was an organization based on a lie that many Americans fell for and knelt down to demonstrate their stupidity, even the police. The kowtowing was disgusting.
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