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How Rolling Stone Lies about Gun Advertising

Posted on by Gregory Smith

In the photo gallery of “The Gun Industry’s Nine Most Outrageous Marketing Ploys” they show the picture below and claim the following:   A Sniper Rifle of His Own Gunmaker Barrett specializes in selling military-grade, anti-personnel and anti-materiel sniper rifles to couch potatoes who like to imagine themselves as members of the Special Forces. The […]

Policymic lies about gun advertising.

Posted on by Gregory Smith

Policymic clearly has an agenda with their blog, “0% Of Gun Ads Mention Protecting Your Family, So What Makes People Buy Guns?”. My suspicion began when they referred to a study from 2004 about gun advertising with the following claims: “The study — by public health scholar Elizabeth Saylor and two colleagues — asked what […]