McCloskeys Win Back AR‑15 Rifle 5 Years After BLM Clash

“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, smeared by the press, and threatened with death, but we never backed down.”

In a separate X post, Mark McCloskey also shared a video of himself retrieving the rifle from 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,” Mark McCloskey told Fox News Digital, adding he owns other weapons. “You have to let them know that you will never back down, you’ll never give up.”

“Each and every one of us owns a personal responsibility for our freedom and our democratic republic,” Mark McCloskey said.

“If you’ve been wronged, if you’ve been overreached by the leftist government — you can’t give up,” Mark McCloskey told Fox News Digital. “You can’t let them get an inch.”