Picture #5 was a ‘joke’, IIRC. The ‘ATF Guy’ used to run Full-auto.com (which I dunno if that’s still around). Pic 2 has to be a fake gun or a foreign country as there aren’t a hell of a lot of G36s floating around (even including the converted SL8s).
#3 and #7 say all you need to know about HuffPo. Those nuns were probably posing after a hunting or range trip and the photo is old enough that it would have been normal – how is that a pic where “guns do not belong?”
#7 is on the firing line at a range! The only way that it fits their meme is if “granny” shouldn’t have a gun! (Of course, they think nobody should have a gun, so I guess it fits.)
As for #8, I’m assuming that’s either a toy, or photoshopped. It looks like a hammerless pistol in what looks like a 40’s photograph. Not impossible, but it would be unusual. If it’s a real gun in the original photo, then that is inappropriate.
My aged, saintly mother cherishes the pic I took of her at Red’s Indoor Range here in Texas, as she proudly held a Ruger 22LR pistol and a 357 Magnum revolver, posing in front of her tight groups clustered center of mass on the target.
All Little Old Ladies should be dangerous.
And anyone who, like me, attended pre-Vatican II parochial school, should be completely unsurprised that some nuns like shotguns. While I was amazed to learn my 7th grade teacher Sister Mary Camilla had hair on her head under her nun-wrapper, I would have been completely unsurprised regarding her ability or propensity to shoot us all dead, had she been so ordered by Sister Mary John, the Prinicipal.
Yeah that first one is from Oleg. I’m pretty sure it is of Laurel from politicsgunsandbeer.com and her husband. I hope it copyrighted and Oleg sues the pants off them.
Yeah, #1, “Because Laurel and The Annoyance were posing for Oleg”, is why those guns are there.
AkMatt: It’s copyrighted; all artworks are copyrighted to their creator, automatically (unless assigned else where by contract, or deliberately released).
However, since it’s social commentary, it’s probably Fair Use, especially since they’re explicitly not claiming creation or ownership.
June 10th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Picture #5 says all you need to know about the ATF.
June 10th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Picture #5 was a ‘joke’, IIRC. The ‘ATF Guy’ used to run Full-auto.com (which I dunno if that’s still around). Pic 2 has to be a fake gun or a foreign country as there aren’t a hell of a lot of G36s floating around (even including the converted SL8s).
June 10th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
And isn’t the first picture one of Oleg’s? Do they have the rights to use it?
June 10th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
#3 and #7 say all you need to know about HuffPo. Those nuns were probably posing after a hunting or range trip and the photo is old enough that it would have been normal – how is that a pic where “guns do not belong?”
#7 is on the firing line at a range! The only way that it fits their meme is if “granny” shouldn’t have a gun! (Of course, they think nobody should have a gun, so I guess it fits.)
As for #8, I’m assuming that’s either a toy, or photoshopped. It looks like a hammerless pistol in what looks like a 40’s photograph. Not impossible, but it would be unusual. If it’s a real gun in the original photo, then that is inappropriate.
June 10th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Robb: first one is either Oleg or from “Armed in America”.
The comments are … predictable.
The rest … hell, I would’ve loved to take my grandmother shooting. The bathtub pic is from a long-running joke on ArfCom (I Am Legend) …
June 10th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
The first one is of Corina and Dan who own the BBQ place just down the hill from my house in Moscow, Idaho.
I’m sending them an email…
June 10th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Picture #8 was most likely taken prior to 1960. The flag has 48 stars. The 50 star flag didnt appear until after July 4th 1960.
June 10th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Is photo #5 Marko (Maj. Caudill)?
And teaching gramma to shoot the EBR is all kinds of awesome.
June 10th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Its the HuffandPuff post, what do you want?
June 10th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
The granny shot is my favorite. Especially since she’s got a holstered handgun on her hip too!
June 10th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Okay, that’s his hip. It’s still awesome
June 10th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
#5 That is the way ATF teaches agents to shoot, and they still miss?
June 10th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Why, I’ve become mighty famous thanks to Oleg’s picture! You know, us crazy Idaho folk and our guns. 700+ comments – we’ve done well today. 😉
June 10th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
My aged, saintly mother cherishes the pic I took of her at Red’s Indoor Range here in Texas, as she proudly held a Ruger 22LR pistol and a 357 Magnum revolver, posing in front of her tight groups clustered center of mass on the target.
All Little Old Ladies should be dangerous.
And anyone who, like me, attended pre-Vatican II parochial school, should be completely unsurprised that some nuns like shotguns. While I was amazed to learn my 7th grade teacher Sister Mary Camilla had hair on her head under her nun-wrapper, I would have been completely unsurprised regarding her ability or propensity to shoot us all dead, had she been so ordered by Sister Mary John, the Prinicipal.
June 10th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
What is it with anti-rights “liberals” and a lack of respect for intellectual property?
June 10th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
#4 is from the “I Am Legend” photo thread on Arfcom. It started at the end of 2007.
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=649461&page=1
June 10th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Yeah that first one is from Oleg. I’m pretty sure it is of Laurel from politicsgunsandbeer.com and her husband. I hope it copyrighted and Oleg sues the pants off them.
June 11th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Yeah, #1, “Because Laurel and The Annoyance were posing for Oleg”, is why those guns are there.
AkMatt: It’s copyrighted; all artworks are copyrighted to their creator, automatically (unless assigned else where by contract, or deliberately released).
However, since it’s social commentary, it’s probably Fair Use, especially since they’re explicitly not claiming creation or ownership.