We’re winning
Bushmaster advertisement for AR-15s in issues of Maxim magazine:
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Well, they do share the name of the inventor of the machine gun and sound suppressor. Also an ad for the Remington 870.
A few years back, I would never have imagined a men’s magazine catering to young men (some even say metrosexuals) would be advertising evil black rifles. Fantastic. Oh and go get your man card.
I think I’ve fallen back in love with Freedom Group.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:45 am
Consider the size of your penis compensated for.
(Ducks)
October 21st, 2009 at 11:47 am
OK, that made me laugh.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:50 am
Consider the size of your giant irrational fear advertised for everyone to see.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:56 am
October 21st, 2009 at 11:58 am
i have an irrational fear? And what is it I fear, exactly?
October 21st, 2009 at 12:14 pm
A Real Man doesn’t need a card for permission.
“Of course I’m compensating, if I could kill bad guys with my penis, I wouldn’t need a gun.”
October 21st, 2009 at 12:26 pm
* NOTE: Mancards will not be issued in California, D.C., or other states and regions where men are prohibited. By possible coincidence, many of these states also ban semi-automatic rifles.
October 21st, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Sorry, poor editing on my part, that was meant for “smijer” feel free to edit my comment….
October 21st, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I’d guess smijer is joking.
October 21st, 2009 at 1:35 pm
“Of course I’m compensating, if I could kill bad guys with my penis, I wouldn’t need a gun.”
ROFLOL! That’s going on a bumper sticker!
October 21st, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Sweet!
We are winning indeed, now I’ll have to consider a Bushy for my next AR.
October 21st, 2009 at 1:39 pm
JD Says:
October 21st, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Sweet!
We are winning indeed, now I’ll have to consider a Bushy for my next AR.
They’re sweet rifles but Bushmaster’s kinda chinzy with mags, the rifle came with ONE 30 round mag!
October 21st, 2009 at 1:40 pm
In California we build our own Mancard, or two – we don’t need no steenking badges.
October 21st, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Markie Marxist sez: “Gun companies shouldn’t be doing that! That’s marketing! They’re marketing guns! Gun companies should slink around in shame until we Marxists can ban the companies we don’t want and nationalize the rest. If they market guns to the general public, they could become as successful as other capitalist companies like McDonalds, or Wal-Mart! How’s that supposed to help us communize America? It’s just not common communist sense to allow them to market their product outside of their gun magazines. Just ask my commie compadres at the Brady Center; they’ll tell you how awful it is. It’s . . . it’s . . . it’s uncommunist!”
October 21st, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Chas, I have a feeling the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership will soon be peeing their pants over it.
October 21st, 2009 at 2:06 pm
You can all get your Jones sated when Freedom Group goes through its IPO in the not too distant future. Buy shares, own a piece of the prize!
October 21st, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Yeah, and if I could compensate for the size of my penis with one of those vacuum pumps, I wouldn’t need an AR. Gotta go… gonna give it *one more try*…
October 21st, 2009 at 2:11 pm
It’s not the size of the magazine, it’s how you use it.
October 21st, 2009 at 2:16 pm
“Of course I’m compensating, if I could kill bad guys with my penis, I wouldn’t need a gun.”
Given a choice, I think I’d rather be killed by a gun than a penis…
October 21st, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Consider the size of your penis compensated for.
By a .223 ?!! I don’t think so.
October 21st, 2009 at 3:13 pm
It does kinda bother me that they used that tag line, but it was very surprising to see the ad (in a good way). The wife brought my copy into my study yesterday, and there was a subscription card on that page, so it was the first thing I saw when I opened it.
I also noticed the (much classier) Remington 870 ad.
October 21st, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Mike, if you are looking for classy, Maxim might be the wrong publication.
But yeah, this is great
October 21st, 2009 at 3:44 pm
This is pure unalloyed awesome. I hope they pull more stuff like this in the future.
October 21st, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Funny thing! I picked up the Chicago Tribune a few days ago and in the advertising section Cabela’s was running adverts for 5.56 ammo.
I’m sure the adverts are targeted by area, but I still nearly shit myself silly, because it was IN THE FREAKING TRIBUNE!
I’ll see if I can’t dig up the paper/take a picture…
October 21st, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Hmmmmm. Maxim Magazine and Oleg Volk…
October 21st, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Uh, Unc?
There a particular reason you’re getting Maxim? Been hangin’ around Caleb too long?
October 21st, 2009 at 7:42 pm
JayG: I dont know about Unc, but I got it for the last year for no good reason. Just started showing up and even followed me for an address change. My wife reads it for me. 🙂
October 21st, 2009 at 7:44 pm
As in I did not subscribe, no gift subscription card, etc… Just a random free subscription. They want a fee to resubscribe though.
October 21st, 2009 at 9:04 pm
“smijer Says:
October 21st, 2009 at 11:45 am
Consider the size of your penis compensated for.
(Ducks)”
Yeah, I need some small bores in my arsenal.
October 21st, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Let’s see ’em run it in Lady’s Home Journal, or “O” or other such estrocentric printing that passes for distaff enlightenment.
The screams would be beyond dog-whistle pitch, I’m sure.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
October 21st, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Huck Says:
October 21st, 2009 at 1:39 pm
They’re sweet rifles but Bushmaster’s kinda chinzy with mags, the rifle came with ONE 30 round mag!
DPMS comes with 2 mags and my RRA with 1.
I may get blasted for this, but…I prefer 20 rnd mags, they don’t get in the way when I use my bipod. I do have about four 30 rnders in case TSHTF.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:02 pm
So an add in a magazine means we’re winning? How does that work?
And I thought winning would be having our inalienable rights respected, honored and upheld.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:05 pm
facepalm
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:43 am
My compensation is bigger than their compensation (M1A.)
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:44 am
“…prefer 20 rnd mags, they don’t get in the way when I use my bipod.”
Bi-pod? What’s this bipod thing of which you speak? My RRAs both came with slings. 😉
I kid, I kid.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:27 am
“facepalm” Yea, that would be real informative. Can’t justify your claim other than derision?
I expect I know why you think “win,” I just don’t see it as much of anything. But enlighten me anyway.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:35 am
I didn’t say ‘we won’, now did I?
well, first of all, the ‘we’re winning‘ meme has been a consistent theme on this blog since about 2003 (well before you started commenting here). And it illustrates incremental changes in attitude and culture that have occurred. A non-gun magazine publishing gun ads is a big deal culturally.
Of course, if the incremental approach isn’t to your liking, you’re in for disappointment.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:53 am
I’m trying to think how to work this into an argument.
Anti-gunner: You’re compensating for your penis!
Me: My lawyer has advised me that a jury will not be understanding if I defend my life with my genetalia.
So, yes, I had to settle for something… less impressive. Would you like to see my Lahti?
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Ok, so now I need to get a bigger sling?
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:41 pm
I’m perfectly happy with incremental _improvement_. I just don’t see that a niche market, young male oriented, targeted audience magazine accepting advertising dollars in an economic downturn is an indication of any improvement.
I suppose a non-gun magazine advertising guns might be a big deal, I remember mainstream mass market national magazines having full page gun adverts. So it would be a “big deal” to me if something like ‘Life’ (Uh, is there still a ‘Life’ mag?) was doing it — ‘Maxim’ doesn’t strike me as such. While it is a question of scale, I expect big deals to be big. Also, if Maxim has previously presented an anti-rights stand, that would be something to crow about. Have they?
So as part of a _much_ bigger picture it is a good thing, but in and of itself, not much there.
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:45 pm
they have reportedly crapped their pants over guns before.
That seems contradictory.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:00 pm
A grain of sand in your face, no big deal. A bucket full would be something.
More to the point, assuming they have “crapped their pants over guns” then it is an improvement. I gotta think about how big, due to the small fish nature of the beast.
October 25th, 2009 at 10:25 am
More likely simply more evidence that print media is dying and they’re desperate for revenue, any kind of revenue, from anywhere.