In the video below, NRA Board member Ted Nugent lets loose on gun control in his usual no-holds-barred fashion (with extra shaky camera work). Yes, NRA Board member. So when the Motor City Madman speaks truth to, well, anyone who’ll listen, he is, on some level, speaking for the NRA. Is that a good thing? How good? How would you feel about Ted Nugent as the public face, make that mouth of the NRA? Or do you think Wayne “I swear I’m Not a Funeral Director” LaPierre is the calmer, better choice?
nope time for the ofwgs of the nra’s public team to fade into the backround and let some younger bucks up front.
jesus christ no
YES. Crazy is ok, as long as you don’t [also] do drugs.
And his ‘crazy’ ain’t the clinical kind [like the evil POS (D)].
Don’t care for his music. Per what Adam Kraut had to say he is mostly absent for board meetings, so who cares what his views are!
Ted’s long service, dedication and loyalty to then NRA is unquestionable. He’s rock star. Not a president. I think he’s more valuable to the NRA as a rock star.
Why is there a shovel in the photo? Are you going to bury something after you shoot that gun?
It was recently discovered that ted and several other elected members are not doing their due dilligence and voting at meetings (or even attending). I’d rather get some really pro NFA item (anti-NFA legislation) members on the board and do some more legwork regarding lobbying for a relaxed NFA.
Ted does much more harm to gun rights than good.
Ted Nugent may have some positive qualities, but he also embodies some negative stereotypes about gun people as boastful schmucks who feel the need to exaggerate their “manliness” to absurd degrees. Nugent bragged in the 70’s about deliberately dropping a log in his pants to avoid the draft. He is not the guy we want to represent us.
Lets let Ted tell it.
got my physical notice 30 days prior to. Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin’ and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie. I had long hair, and it started gettin’ kinky, matted up. Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value. I just had chips, Pepsi, beer-stuff I never touched-buttered poop, little jars of Polish sausages, and I’d drink the syrup, I was this side of death, Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up.
See, I approached the whole thing like, Ted Nugent, cool hard-workin’ dude, is gonna wreak havoc on these imbeciles in the armed forces. I’m gonna play their own game, and I’m gonna destroy ’em. Now my whole body is crusted in poop and piss. I was ill. And three or four days before, I started stayin’ awake. I was close to death, but I was in control. I was extremely antidrug as I’ve always been, but I snorted some crystal methedrine. Talk about one wounded motherf*cker. A guy put up four lines, and it was for all four of us, but I didn’t know and I’m vacuuming that poop right up. I was a walking, talking hunk of human poop. I was six-foot-three of sin. So the guys took me down to the physical, and my nerves, my emotions were distraught. I was not a good person. I was wounded. But as painful and nauseous as it was — ’cause I was really into bein’ clean and on the ball — I made gutter swine hippies look like football players. I was deviano.
So I went in, and those guys in uniform couldn’t believe the smell. They were ridiculin’ me and pushin’ me around and I was cryin’, but all the time I was laughin’ to myself. When they stuck the needle in my arm for the blood test I passed out, and when I came to they were kicking me into the wall. Then they made everybody take off their pants, and I did, and this sergeant says, “Oh my God, put those back on! You f*cking swine you!” Then they had a urine test and I couldn’t piss, But my poop was just like ooze, man, so I poop in the cup and put it on the counter. I had poop on my hand and my arm. The guy almost puked. I was so proud. I knew I had these chumps beat. The last thing I remember was wakin’ up in the ear test booth and they were sweepin’ up. So I went home and cleaned up.
They took a putty knife to me. I got the street rats out of my hair, ate some good steaks, beans, potatoes, cottage cheese, milk. A couple of days and I was ready to kick ass. And in the mail I got this big juicy 4-F. They’d call dead people before they’d call my ass. But you know the funny thing about it? I’d make an incredible army man. I’d be a colonel before you knew what hit you, and I’d have the baddest bunch of motherf*ckin’ killers you’d ever seen in my platoon. But I just wasn’t into it. I was too busy doin’ my own thing, you know?
I have no feelz either way. Honestly I don’t pay that much attention to the NRA any more.
The way I see it there won’t be any significant progress or anti gun legislation that makes it through this year or next. “Guns” is just too hot of a topic for both sides at this point.
Interesting article … and i used to think the same. However, as i look at the European firearm homicide death, in US it is around 30 per million people, vs less than 7 per million people in any of the European countries, even with all the terrorist attacks they went through!
I can’t wrap my head around it, and i’m starting to think that maybe guns are actually the problem?? It depresses me to think that. What do you guys think?
Anna
Ok ok I’ll do it! I’ll take the VP job. Hell if it’s between me and Ted I think I got about a 60% chance of taking the seat.
God love the man but he isn’t exactly who you want being the face of your movement. No ole Uncle Ted is that crazy f**ker you don’t introduce friends or significant others to until after your 4th or 5th anniversary just to be sure they don’t freak out and think you’re like him.
While we’re here can we perhaps nominate Colion Noir or Dom Rasso? Why not some of the ladies on NRATV? Really flip the antis nominate a gay transgender African American woman that self identifies as a Dodge Caravan.
You guys are failing spectacularly at this whole “embed video” thing. I see *lots* of links to Brownells, but nothing to a video.
The same thing happens with all the shotgun slug videos. New page, no video, no link.
As my grandfather used to tell me, “You need to get your poop in group.”
Over $1100 for a gun from some company I never heard of when I can get a brand new Ruger 9E for about $300? Screw these guys.
He may scare folks but he speaks truth and is a pretty street smart intelligent guy with his own style of humor but, he has heart and personality and knows the 2nd amendment and history. After all he is a entertainer and may make a good
The NRA needs to get its act together and stop acting like they only support Fudds and hunters and not the millions of black rifle owners.
Gun owners all of them from old double barrel duck hunter to bolt action deer hunter to sports shooters and plinkers with AR-15’s and AK47’s need to stand together cuz the gun grabbers want all the guns and the NRA needs to stand firm and not make stupid statements that they are willing to outlaw a piece of plastic that is some toy.
I bought a 43 and then bought the 26.
I’m still trying to find someone to buy the 43.
With the PMAGs for the Glock 26, you increase round capacity from 10+1 to 12+1.
I actually got rid of all my factory Glock 26 mags.
Come on over to PA! Firearm laws are pretty good on this side of the Delaware! I got out of NJ 5 years ago. Props to everyone staying to fight the good fight though.
A pair of the mugger’s little helpers?
The kinderGarten state wouldn’t even trust people to pump gas in their cars.
Three rules for gun collecting:
1. Buy quality. Quality firearms had a higher value when they were first made, and there are fewer quality guns being made every year. Quality retains value. Generally speaking, guns with aluminum parts (eg, magazine, trigger bow, etc) don’t appreciate much. Plastic doesn’t appreciate at all, unless we’re talking of something like the very first Glock 17, with papers to prove it. Quality guns in rare(r) configurations appreciate better than the more common variants. eg, a pre-war Winchester Model 70 in .220 Swift commands a much higher value than a Model 70 in .30-06.
2. “All original” commands a higher price. Know the provenance and have it documented if the gun has some historical significance. Getting factory letters helps; better yet to research what you’re buying before you buy it.
3. Take care of it.
It’s not difficult. 80 years ago, a Winchester Model 70, 94, 21 or 12 were working guns. The ones that had higher-end features, that were manufactured in more uncommon chamberings, and that were taken care of have appreciated quite nicely since then.