More advertisers need to show people of all walks of life having safe fun using firearms.
Along a similar vein demonstrating a positive defensive use that bridges a gap between conservatives and social Libertarians: Two women and two children enter an outdoor range facility. The visibly younger of the two women is carrying both a range bag and a rifle case. In the next scene you see the older of the two women wrangling eye and ear protection onto the two kids (and putting some on herself) while the younger women gets her light profile barrel AR out of its case along with a polymer framed wonder nine of any flavor. She sets up a variety of bullseye targets at varying distances. Multi angle cut takes from both behind the target as well as looking at the targets as they are being shot. Next scene shows her taking off her hearing protection and setting it on the bench amongst fired casings and unfired rounds. The wonder nine has a visible coat of carbon while the AR is gently letting off smoke from cooked clp. Camera is behind her as she turns around. She isn’t smiling, she isn’t frowning. She simply has a look of placid self-determination. Ad closes out with the brand of rifle or wonder nine. No byline. Just that.
I get the fact that in today’s highly saturated firearms marketplace there has to be some form of spin to stay somewhat relevant. But it sure seems like a lot of it is starting to have a “zombie horde” type quality to it that was (unfortunately) so popular a number of years ago. Some of it is just off putting and sets a false premise.
But what the heck do I know, I’m a nobody. But, as a consumer, there is a lot of this stuff that I just tune out, it just has become to much “silliness”.
I’m so done with gun culture. I don’t watch gun shows. I don’t want to take run and gun classes anymore. I separated from Friends of NRA fundraising. I quit being the President and board member of my local gun range. I bought my own 57 acres and built my own range. I’ve had my fill of Fudds, Tactical Tommies, conspiracy theorists, and whiners. Not to mention vets with no combat experience telling me how it works on a two way range, and pompous assholes telling me I shouldn’t carry a firearm if I’m overweight.
My support of the 2nd remains unwavering. I would support ads that show the normal every day Americans using firearms. We make up the vast majority of users, and the least visible in media and at the range.
I fast-forward past all that crap until I get to Uncle Larry, then I hit play again and let him teach me how to lovingly craft black-powder loads for my .57 Oldasfuk or how to convert my rusty old low-wall into cheap-to-shoot 357 magnum using nothing more than a spotless shop stocked with a half-million dollars of machine tools and pair of +4 eyeglass lenses.
He’s Larry Potterfield and that’s the way it is, god-damnit! If you don’t believe him, you can go **** yourself.
A lumberjack stands in a booth at an indoor range, tactically shooting tactical targets. Another lumberjack walks into frame. He enters the booth next to Lumberjack #1 and sets down his case. Zoom to him unzipping the case…Slowly…Tactically. Lumberjack #1 glances over as Lumberjack #2 slides out his weapon. Their eyes meet. Tactically. Lumberjack #1 gives a tactical “What’s up” and strokes his beard. Lumberjack #2 gives him a knowing smile. They’re shooting the same pistol. Scene cuts to Lumberjack #1 holding the door to the men’s room open for Lumberjack #2. They enter. Door closes. Scene cuts to black. Sig Logo.
Then Uncle Larry shows us how to tighten the lock-up on our $254,000 Purdy side-by-side.
The thumb on the same side as your trigger finger is something I have seen popping up lately all over social media and Youtube. Definitely a industry pet peeve of mine right now too. I thought I was alone in that
I’ll take Anne-Marie Rhodes for $200, Alex. Pity she left Davidson’s Gallery of Guns. Pregnancy I think. Downgraded my cable bill and flushed those channels upon learning this. Goodbye gun TV. Without Anne-Marie Rhodes and R. Lee Ermey ya just ain’t the same. Although Michelle Viscusi once in a blue moon is eye candy, too. Not worth paying extra for those channels anymore, though. I counted, lessee, ZERO bad reviews of something on those shows. Amazing record of only showing off perfect stuff. That’s when you realize Guns and Ammo, Gun Stories, etc., are all just infomercials. Didn’t mean to burst the bubble.
Here’s how I “F” with you, Firefly. I know a local girl who’s a dead ringer for Bella Thorne. Dead. F.**ng. Ringer.
I think Mat Best should make firearm commercials. Not only would they be more entertaining than the shows, I’d quite likely buy whatever he’s hawking - maybe even a Glock! :jester:
I think the last time I really enjoyed the firearms channels was back when R. Lee Ermey did the Glock commercial where he hears a burglar, gets out of bed, grabs his pistol, looks at the camera, and says, “Somebody picked the wrong house.”
Except for the fact that I don’t do pinkos, my girlfriend has actually given me a permission slip to nail Tina Fey, as long as I bring a gal for her to play with too. LOL
Brown Sugar by the Stones plays as she struts chest out in a way too tight dress, D&G sunglasses, and open toed shoes towards a table on the Caribbean beach and she opens a case whereupon an LMT MRP is contained. She has an excited look of feral, yet feminine glee as she gently picks it up, charges it and we get and underview shot of her firing it. We get a nice cut to her feet as it slowly pans up as she has it in a low slung position and slowly brings the back of her hand to her head as she arches backward in a slowed down motion as we see a streak of sunlight and bright aqua blue skies
I find it kind of funny in a sense with the adds and how people are “supposed” to look like. Those of you who truly know people who have or are still doing the work, they don’t dress up and scream “I have a gun”
I think it’s like anything else, if it’s over played, stressed, practiced whatever, one will get consumed with it and eventually tire of it. I had a range trip the other day and it was rather enjoyable, it was the first time in over 20 years that I shot a precision rifle on a bench. I then continued with the .22 rifle (CZ455 Varmint) and had some plain old fun with it. Heck, I might get back into .22 pistol benchrest!
Me, I would like to see Jennifer Lopez with a G42 in a inner thigh rig. I was always hoping they would have here in that get up on Shades of Blue.
The firearms industry can hardly run an ad showing a bunch of fat or skinny dudes derping at a public range to win the admiration of their buddies or their fat girlfriends - boyfriends - wives - partners, even though that is their target audience.
The industry has to feed the Walter Mitty in so many of us because if we all only bought the guns we need, they would not sell a lot of firearms.
