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Another fake "pro-gun" group
5-10-2007 | DesScorp

Posted on 05/10/2007 3:16:11 PM PDT by DesScorp

After reading about the American Hunters and Shooters Association, a fake "pro-gun" group that's really financed by Democratic gun-control interests, I came across another group that also advertises itself as gun enthusiasts...but they're even more blatant in their aims.

The Gun Guys is a website that looks pro-gun at first...lots of pics of firearms, with cowboy-style fonts. But read their content, and it becomes apparent quickly that they're really gun-grabbers. Furthermore, they're sponsored by an organization that's misleadingly named The Freedom Alliance. This site sponsors several anti-gun sites, the most ridiculous being 50 Caliber Terror, a site that seeks to ban 50 cal weapons because "they might be used by terrorists to shoot down airliners".

No, I couldn't make that up if I tried.

They've also got a movie called License To Murder, decrying state laws that allow citizens to shoot first if they're in danger. They're funded in part by a leftist group called the Joyce Foundation, a group dedicated to liberal causes.

So don't be fooled when groups like the AHSA or Gun Guys comes calling. They're not your friends. They're wolves in sheeps clothing.

Two blogs do a great job of exposing these frauds. Have a look at The Real Gun Guys and Carnaby Fudge for an in-depth look at this pathetic attempt at astroturfing.


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KEYWORDS: ahsa; astroturfing; bang; banglist; democrats; grassroots; guns; secondamendment
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Freepers, defend your rights....all of them.
1 posted on 05/10/2007 3:16:16 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: DesScorp

Thanks for posting this.


2 posted on 05/10/2007 3:18:04 PM PDT by PeterFinn (The end of islam is the beginning of peace.)
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To: DesScorp

That’s a pretty sick site. Nothing but VPC/Brady lies.


3 posted on 05/10/2007 3:20:46 PM PDT by Tolsti
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It's always foolish to play games with a gun.. owner.

4 posted on 05/10/2007 3:25:03 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: DesScorp

This is getting to be a common tactic. They’ve also set up phone Christian ‘Values’ groups.


5 posted on 05/10/2007 3:29:32 PM PDT by aimhigh
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To: DesScorp

I’ve known that The Gun Guys were actually anti-gun the first time I went there. Can’t remember why I was there, was nothing to do with gun control, but looked around once and never been back.


6 posted on 05/10/2007 3:30:23 PM PDT by Domandred
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I stumbled across that site awhile ago and was thoroughly disgusted. Then I clicked on the link to .50 Caliber Terror and was amazed to see them claiming that a .50 caliber rifle is easier to get than a handgun. And that they're designed for attacking concrete bunkers. And that they can be used in assassinations [never mind that you could use your bare friggin' hands in an assassination]. But one of their columnist's quotes really took the cake when they claimed that a .50 caliber rifle is " is akin to those tripod-mounted numbers from World War II movies, where soldiers fed in long strings of ammo." and that a terrorist could use a .50 to blow up a nuclear facility.

Wow. I didn't know a .50 caliber rifle was belt fed fully automatic and fired bunker busting munitions.

Now I really, really, want one.
7 posted on 05/10/2007 3:34:50 PM PDT by verum ago (The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
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To: DesScorp

I didn’t think the SOB’s were that shrewd....evil, but not that sinister. Thanks for the heads up.


8 posted on 05/10/2007 3:38:52 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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The folks who lack morality and the ability to be shamed have no qualms about masquerading as their enemy. Their views are so sinister and evil that a direct sell would result in their lynching. They understand this. Their tactic has been to infiltrate, take control, and subvert. Many a once-fine charitable institution has been commandeered in this fashion by these fascist autocrats. Many a public institution has succumbed as well.

They are attempting the same tactic with what might have been considered “untouchable” bastions of conservative values - churches and conservative organizations.

Be alert. Many a wolf is hiding in sheep’s clothing. Perhaps most of the sheep are really wolves.


9 posted on 05/10/2007 3:53:38 PM PDT by pjr12345 (What is it about "The Radicaleftists want to kill us!" don't you people understand?)
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Probably alot of these faux conservative groups are funded by the likes of Soros.......these wreak of his odor!


10 posted on 05/10/2007 3:56:24 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: verum ago

They forgot to mention that .50 caliber rifles cause global warming, and that some .50 shooters *gasp* SMOKE CIGARETTES!


11 posted on 05/10/2007 4:00:33 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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We are in a war boys and girls. A real war to take it all away and put it in the hands of BIG GOVT. dictators.It is every bit as real as the terror war and possibly much more deadly as more than 200 years of the noble experiment will be destroyed with no one left to pick up the pieces. As the man said about defending freedom, “If not us..who?”


12 posted on 05/10/2007 4:10:31 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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And now they’re using the Jersey terrorists as an excuse for a 50 cal ban there.


13 posted on 05/10/2007 4:11:00 PM PDT by DesScorp
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They forgot to mention that .50 caliber rifles cause global warming, and that some .50 shooters *gasp* SMOKE CIGARETTES!

Oh that's easy. EVERYTHING causes Global Warming. Duh. And of course they smoke cigarettes- they're gun owners. They're evil.

What they did forget to mention is that a .50 could be used to vaporize an abortion right-to-privacy clinic from the other side of the earth (shooting straight through, of course) and can also deport illegal aliens with its muzzle blast.

a:P
14 posted on 05/10/2007 4:20:35 PM PDT by verum ago (The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
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To: DesScorp

The level of hypocrisy used by gun grabbers is off the chart.

It would be nice to know how many times these web sites have been used as a reference by elected officials.


15 posted on 05/10/2007 4:22:05 PM PDT by JoeSixPack1
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To: DesScorp
The Second Amendment - Commentaries

16 posted on 05/10/2007 4:22:12 PM PDT by PsyOp (The commonwealth is theirs who hold the arms.... - Aristotle.)
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Barack Obama was on the board of the anti-2nd Amendment Joyce Foundation before he ran for Senate.


17 posted on 05/10/2007 5:41:23 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (L'Chaim!)
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Websites such as this always come across real cheesy, obvious imposters who did not do their homework when trying to disguise themselves as the real deal.


18 posted on 05/10/2007 7:56:24 PM PDT by Firefigher NC
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To: DesScorp

More Soros money???


19 posted on 05/10/2007 8:04:13 PM PDT by gbs
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Liberals have to lie about who they are to advance their agenda. The truth would kill them with the public.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

20 posted on 05/10/2007 8:08:17 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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