Mother Jones : Papa Says It's Safe: 20 Astounding Gun Ads

[Justin_Beach]

In addition to the NRA, this is a big part of the problem:

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Guns are not 'cool' or 'fun' they don't 'make you a man' ..... It's odd that they can regulate cigarette advertising, but not gun advertising. Even the 2nd amendment says nothing about advertising.

Edit: Sorry .. full link to the gallery http://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/12/gun-ads-bushmaster-mattel

[grahamhgreen]

1. Oh yeah, that would be the manufacturers; who are these guys that sit around and think up

better ways to kill a human?

Kalashnikov was a drunk, as I recall.

[COLGATE4]

2. As I understand it, Kalashnikov developed his AK

while recovering from severe battle wounds fighting the Germans. He developed it for the same reason that many Americans also contributed to developing better armament during WW II. Patriotism.

[starroute]

3. Bushmaster is owned by Cerberus Capital Development

Which has bought up most of the old-line small arms companies and sees pushing quasi-military weapons into the hands of the general public as a growth opportunity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/business/how-freedom-group-became-the-gun-industrys-giant.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1355592014-ZkmrN4eFDjNHyNOZGNjxqQ