A number of complaints are flowing into TTAG central about the ad at the bottom of the page. We know it’s annoying. We also know it’s a plenty profitable proposition. So . . . we’re going to add what should have been there in the first place: a little X to kill the ad. The question will then become: is that still too annoying for our readers? Or is it like the same deal inside YouTube—a fact of life as we know it? Your input would be much appreciated. For those of you dead set against any assault ads, rest assured that this is a test. This is only a test of a revenue generating procedure. If you could, please grin and bear it for a bit. We will see what’s what money and agro-wise and keep you in the loop. We now return you to your regularly scheduled gun blog. As always we thank you for your time, patience and patronage.
I find the bottom ad incredibly obtrusive, and significantly detracts from my enjoyment of this blog. That’s why it pays, of course.
View from here is somewhat different. We laughed at the January great huge gun show in our parts, seeing drool-slicked sellers toting ARs around with insane price tags ($2K and up, often for pedestrian jobadoos like off-the-rack Olympic Arms or POS rifles apparently cobbled together from parts found in bins in the garage).
Even more it was an object lesson in how many “free marketeers” really don’t understand how capitalism works. For them “capitalism” is a lottery and orgy in an all-you-can-eat casino, and everybody but YOU is the schmuck.
I can tell you that those dozens of guys meandering around with their guns-for-higher were still carrying them at the end of the day, sometimes marking them down a couple hundred. Yeah, right, like you’re going to sell at these inflated prices among POTG…who already have our own ARs aplenty? Try that out in the real world, fellas, where the ignint are hopping on bandwagons they don’t understand.
“Assault” ads? Better ban them. If it saves just one click….
Seriously, it’s your site. Get your money on.
“Modern sporting ad.” Thank you.
Advertiser disarmament. For the children.
It is your site to do as you wish, however if these ads continue, I along with many others will say adios to ya! Rather a sharp stick in the eye than these ads.
Little red-headed hottie needs to get edjumokated on the subject of confiscations; Cuomo proposed them and if MN’s AWB passes you can either render your ugly gun permanently inoperable (nothing specifying what needs to be done for that), take it out of state or turn it in to the cops for destruction. Or, hang on to it and face 5 years per weapon and 5 years per mag over 7 or 10 rounds (depending which version passes).
As a friend of mine pointed out; for anyone who has 15 or more mags starting to shoot when the cops come knocking has no downside (MN is a progressive non-capital punishment state).
I’m fine with it so long as you can X it out. Anything that helps pay the bills is OK with me because I love this site.
Too many people who make use of the Internet/World Wide Web feel that whatever they pay for their Internet access is more than enough and that all of the content they choose to consume should be free. Unfortunately for them, in order to provide quality content most web sites choose to pay their contributors, and that of course costs money. If the consumer is not willing to pay for that quality content, then those monies must come from somewhere else, usually either through sponsorships or advertising.
Personally, I don’t care for pop-up/-under/-over ads, but I am more than willing to put up with and even support static ads on the web sites I frequent in order to pay for the content on those sites.
If you are totally against ads of any type, then you have no room to whine and complain when your favorite sites either post substandard content or choose to go away completely due to lack of revenue.
As a writer, I put a lot of effort into providing content – several hours a week. I hope the articles I and my colleagues provide are worth the annoyance.
It was annoying trying to find the “x” spot at first, after that…not so much. If it pays the bills, I can live with a little annoyance, which is small payment for the information and pleasure I get turning to these pages numerous times a day. The frequent updates are worth more than the annoyance costs me. Thanks guys.
I’m a capitalist, and fully support your desire to make some coin off this website. That said, this is still a sort of free country, so I’ll continue to use AdBlock to get rid of all the ads on this website and everywhere else. I don’t even see ads in youtube videos…. 🙂
I don’t see a problem. It funds the site and does not interfere with the view since scrolling is not inhibited. Do I wish it was not needed, sure. It is however your choice since you run the show. I would rather have an ad that stays to the side rather than having ads woven into the body of the text area like some other sites.
It annoying as all get out, but I get access to a site free of charge that is very informational. So if I have to be a little annoyed its the price of playing. After all some people may find other’s comments annoying and we find a way to deal with them. Additionally, not only are those that bring us the site entitled to offset the cost of presenting the site, if they can make a few bucks to assist them in their hobby and bring more reviews I am for it.
No ad for me just a black box that I can’t see or close.
Didn’t know you had ads. I make use of Firefox and Ad-Block+.
I am NOT fine with it. It is an assault to my senses alright. Going commercial (more) is one thing, these totally affect the ability to “x” it out; many ads do not allow it. I click on the “x” and nothing happens OR they become a bigger ad. try the Royal Scotsman ad and you will see what I mean.
I don’t know about y’all, but I don’t want to be camped out within the defective range of a .50 BMG. If Dorner did not have access to such a weapon, and “only” had an AR-15, I still would not feel safe within 300 yard of that cabin. The fact that Dorner had successfully murdered other police officers definitely weighed into that equation. If Dorner shot a SWAT officer at 800 yards with a .50 cal, than we’d be looking at another police officer death, and even more gun hysteria.
I’m not defending the previous two mistaken – identity shootings, and I am not saying that this shooting should not be thoroughly investigated. I disagree that these officers had the benefit of time if Dorner did have a .50, .416, .338, etc. If you are willing to “camp out” within the effective range of those weapons systems, with someone who has the willingness to use them, AND has killed several police officers wearing body armor, then you are a man more brave than me.
Yes, the cops were yelling “burn that motherfvcker,” but they were probably more than a little upset that people they know had been shot by their suspect. Perhaps Dorner had the chance to give himself up, and perhaps be did not.
This was an ugly situation, much of which was created by Dorner himself and his murderous rampage. Perhaps Dorner’s rage at LAPD was legitimate, but murder is not. I’m not defending the LAPD or the SO necessarily, but I disagree about staying outside the cabin in a stationary position for extended period of time, particularly inside the effective range of a .50 BMG.
With any luck the price will drop down far enough by this fall that I can pay a pre-Sandy price for a Colt 6920. I almost impulse bought an M4 upper sans the BCG and rear sight from PSA this past weekend but finding parts is still tricky and they wanted full price.
It’s a pain, but it’s your business. If the visits drop off sharply, have to make a cost/benefit decision.
It is fairly unobtrusive. However, should it make noise or play video without my prompting it to, it becomes a really big problem.
Whine whine whine.
Its great, i have the newegg banner so i can troll PC part deals while i troll the blog.
And you might make some moola
Win win.
What pop up ad? Between my pop-up blocker and my ad blocker, I have yet to see it. And that’s the way, uh huh, uh huh, I like it.
Robert, it costs money and time to run a website. Everyone needs to respect the fact that they are not paying you with their money to pay for the operating costs of enjoying TTAG. An X to close the ad is fine with me. I would also like the pop-up ad to be slightly smaller or lower in profile. BTW, while we are on the subject I really dislike any videos (news or advertising) that launch and play automatically.
Disgusting…
Hoping the lawyer he has will be able to do something!
That was a lovely comment.
For the rest of the story, check this out:
http://www.amazon.com/Enemies-Foreign-Domestic-Matthew-Bracken/dp/0972831010/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360772541&sr=8-1&keywords=enemies+foreign+and+domestic
Load the site up with as much ads as you want if it helps you.
The readers won’t see them anyway if they install a ad blocker.
https://adblockplus.org/en/firefox
No more annoying than ads anywhere else. If it helps TTAG to spread it’s message, I have no problem.
It screws up my mobile browsers and I get this black box that jumps around and never actually see the add. When I am on a PC I have no issue. I ignore those ads anyway so they don’t bother me.
The bottom ad slot is profitable in part because so many people click on it accidentally. That said, I had to turn off my adblocker to see any of them, and wow, the ads have about doubled since the last time I looked. One thing that’s sorta funny is the first few times I refreshed the page after turning my blocker off, two or more of the ads were identical. First I had two Chili’s ads, on the next refresh I had two “37 things you must hoard now” and two identical AT&T ads on the same page.
If I didn’t have my adblocker and I was a regular visitor, I have to say that I’d be kinda irritated that the “Recent Comments” block is so far down the page. It’s below four ads and the “so-and-so reads TTAG” block. But hey, you gotta do what you gotta do, and I have AdMuncher.
First obama is going to take my gun & now he’s selling car insurance,lol. If you can make some money have at it, Robert, Randy
Welcome to NAZI America.
Welcome to the new America. He should probably just be thankful they didn’t set fire to his house in the middle of the night or use a drone strike to eliminate him.
I was wondering if this was ever going to be covered by TTAG. I will be watching this story with great interest.
Could have been Piers Morgan in the cabin with a little red ball stuffed in his big mouth. ?/ Anyone else?
I support these annoying ads, anything that pays your bills and keeps you in the black is OK by me, so long as they don’t make noise without interaction.
An X would be great, but I know you guys need the revenue.
nice gun! sidearm is impt too….but i think the rifle is new….the eotech is on backwards maybe?
If you look at your own Gallup source for gun ownership, the trend in gun ownership is clearly an overall decline until 2011.
Where are the 29 peer reviewed articles for Lott’s research? Telling us you have sources and actually having them are different.
Saying you can’t use federal dollars for promoting gun control is essentially ending federal funding for firearms research.
http://nraila.org/get-involved-locally/grassroots/write-your-reps.aspx
I am okay with the ads. A website like this not only costs money to produce, but also the hard earned time of all the columnists. TTAG is a free website, and I get most of my firearms news and info from it.
I didn’t even notice the ads until you mentioned them, RF. They are not obtrusive on my computer, although I have no idea about how they display on portable devices. Interesting that the little princesses who are complaining about them bring nothing to TTAG and never will.
I got incredibly, incredibly lucky and was able to find a brand new LE6920 online, mid-panic, for only $995. I got a couple PMAGs at normal price too. This was several days after the Sandy Hook shooting and a couple days after Obama was talking about creating the task force and voicing his intention to “do something” to prevent something like what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary from ever happening again.
Un-be-effing-lievable. If they can do this to one of us, they can do it to *any* of us, and then to *all* of us. Maybe this is why DHS is stockpiling so much ammo recently.
I figure by this summer gun prices will be about where they were pre-election. Ammo prices though…yeah, they’re not coming back down any time soon. $20/box for 9mm FMJ is probably going to be the new normal, as is 5.56@ $1/round.
I think I’m going to stick to .22s from now on.
We endlessly congratulate ourselves for our Equal Protection Clause and our founding mythology of a classless society
Wuh? Americans are anti-nobility and monarchy (or used to be) but a classless society? That was never part of it. Equality of opportunity is very American. Equality of outcome? Not so much.
You guys are missing the point: that he agrees that if someone feels they need a gun to protect themselves, that they should have the right to do that.
The point he makes after that about suicide or a dog is simply an appeal to the gun owner to voluntarily give it up – but I’ll maintain that he said people should have the right to have a gun if they want one.
The City of Angels turned into Los Diablos a long time ago. Just another reminder.
It strikes me that in this case, a “burner” was effectively no different than hitting the house with a tank or artillery round. Utter destruction. Wreck any forensics. Dead suspect/tango/enemy. All that mattered was permanently ending the situation.
George Orwell – A Final Warning: http://youtu.be/JXm5hklbBsA
Well, it’s whatever we say it is at any given moment. Watch what we do, not what we say.
More likely reason the SEALS use the M60 is the NAVY still uses em!
Maybe the warden had a Remington 700 PSS? LOL
Very nice Uncle Ted.
What’s not to like?
Ted should be kept “off the streets” like a secret weapon to be rolled out whenever a Piers Morgan-type needs a good talking to. He overstates the “mentally ill” issue. Violent ideation is the thing. Psychiatrists prescribing anti-depressants when a person really needs an anti-psychotic seems a serious problem. Going off meds for the seriously ill needs to be stopped. Recidivists? The poor 15 year old girl in Chicago was killed, we now know, by an adult who was on probation for a gun possession violation. He got no jail time. That isn’t a gun problem. That’s a justice system problem. One Obama didn’t bother to fix while representing the South Side.
Umm, pretty sure that’s not an AR in the pic.
I don’t know about elsewhere, but in VA you can get free gun locks from the Sheriff’s office.
I’d rather have the money spent on a quality gun safe and CCW classes become tax deductible.
that got me jazzed up. i hope a lot of people see it.
I agree 100% with Longbeach.
I just only add that we should leave the “us and them” out of the argument, Obama was blamed for the use of the same tactic, and now we are using it.
We should be very clear, we are not defending a privilege, we are defending a right.
I really tried to not say anything but these new ads on this site suck so hard that I don’t know if I can keep coming here. Just having this one tab is making everything all laggy where I used to have fifteen or more no problem. Maybe it’s not the ads but it was sure a coincidental timing.
America is like a house.
These daily digests are like a contractor’s summary of every termite-bitten, mold-encrustd, badly-wired fatal flaw that threatens to bring your house crumbling to the ground.
It takes you years to fix one problem, if it can be fixed at all.
But every day, new problems arise.
How long until the house crumbles? It must be obvious by now that it simply cannot last. And with no other decent houses left in the world to move to, your only option is to live in the ruins once all the parasites have finished destroying what you built. Have fun.
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You welcome.
It looks exactly like the old Daewoo tri-action. Which were pretty good guns, only a little thick in the grip. They were sort of an Beretta / S&W mix. IIRC you could use slighlty modified S&W 59XX mags in it.
Hay nick looks like the frame is a direct Beretta 92FS knock off and so this looks more like a South African Star copy of the Beretta new slide and barrel system same frame.
Thank you for showing who you actually are shilling for, Nick: the OPPRESSORS. You’re suspect from this day forward.
You think it’s designed to fail. Yet you support same. That’s known as unintentional self-disclosure.
If I’ve failed to understand you, I’m sorry. Right now, I think I’ve understood you too well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brL4MRUQdcw
Pack up and move!