Iconic St. Louis couple gets AR-15 rifle back five years after confronting BLM supporters
Mark McCloskey said, "It only took 3 lawsuits, 2 trips to the Court of Appeals and 1,847 days, but I got my AR15 back!"
The McCloskeys during the Defend Our Second Amendment campaign.
Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the iconic couple who in 2020 confronted BLM protesters with guns in front of their property, have successfully recovered their AR-15 rifle after a long legal battle.
On Friday, Mark McCloskey announced on X that the gun had been returned after more than five years.
"It only took 3 lawsuits, 2 trips to the Court of Appeals and 1,847 days, but I got my AR15 back!" stated McCloskey.
"We defended our home, were persecuted by the left, smeared by the press, and threatened with death, but we never backed down," he added.
In another post, Mark McCloskey uploaded a video showing him retrieving the gun at a police station.
"That gun may have only been worth $1,500 or something, and it cost me a lot of time and a lot of effort to get it back, but you have to do that," McCloskey told Fox News Digital, adding that he owns other guns. "You have to let them know that you will never back down, you'll never give up."
Mark McCloskey also said he expects to soon get back a gun that was seized from him during the 2020 incident.
"Each and every one of us owns a personal responsibility for our freedom and our democratic republic," McCloskey said.
The McCloskeys were prosecuted and charged
The rioters were apparently headed to the mayor's residence, and the McCloskeys claimed they felt threatened after they broke through a gate to gain entry to their neighborhood.
The couple was charged with unlawful use of weapons, and later pleaded guilty to misdemeanors. In 2021, the governor of Missouri pardoned them.
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