Posted on 12/07/2021 9:56:32 AM PST by RandFan
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie is facing backlash for a Christmas card photo he posted to social media showing him and every member of his family holding large guns in front of the holiday tree.
"Merry Christmas!," Massie, R-Ky., said in the tweet with the photo he posted Friday. "ps. Santa, please bring ammo."
The photo was posted just four days after a high school shooting in Oxford Township, Michigan, left four students dead and at least eight wounded. Prosecutors say the parents of the accused shooter, Ethan Crumbley, purchased the gun used in the shooting just days before it happened.
Politicians and activists responded to the photo, some criticizing and others defending the pro-gun rights Kentucky congressman.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., a fellow Republican responded in a tweet criticizing the photo.
"I’m pro second amendment, but this isn’t supporting right to keep and bear arms, this is a gun fetish," Kinzinger said.
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Model 999,
A Fine Plinker!
How far have we fallen.
In my days some High Schools had gun club (and you could letter in shooting).
Matthew 10.34
I like the Thompson!
CHEERS!
Pretty sure that it collapses and doesn’t fold...
Bet you want to remove those paintings of Washington crossing the Delaware with all those guns... I mean it was on December 25th after all and he was headed out to kill a bunch of Hessians!
Leftist soyboy dickflutes: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
It’s an Uzi. The hand guards, sights and the external barrel nut are identifiers.
backlash from whom exactly?
Why do I care that folks on twitter or some other social media platform freaked out over anything?
Also the magazine in the pistol grip.
There are semi auto M 60s. The only certain NFA weapons are the Uzi and the Thompson, as they are either machine guns or Short Barrel Rifles.
Hope they know how to go full Kyle on attackers..
Stack em, pack em
No, you can see the fingernail on the index (trigger) finger.
Would someone actually read the article and look at the photo? It’s their Christmas photo, in front of the family Christmas tree. This isn’t a Fourth of July photo. This is not a message a Christian sends at Christmas. There is no Christmas carol celebrating the AR 15 rifle.
Backlash from the media. Who cares?
Who would Jesus splatter
Were it not for the blatantly unconstitutional Hughes Amendment you wouldn’t need to hit the lottery to afford a MG. I escaped from the Peoples Republic of Washington where MGs are banned to the free state of Idaho, but I have the same issue. A local gun shop had a M11 for sale, just under $10,000 for a POS that cost maybe $50 to manufacture.
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