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Reward Now $1000 for Anyone Who Can Out MAIG’s Man

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[Update: Double your pleasure, double your fun. And you can now double your take if you can identify this guy. Steve Ormand who runs yourgunman.com has decided to match our $500 bid so if you’re able to positively ID the star of MAIG’s commercial, you’ll take home a cool grand. Start digging.]

As we noted earlier, the NRA’s finally out with their response to the Mayors Against Gun Ownership Illegal Guns’ comprehensive background check spot they unveiled in March. Now the credulous New York Daily News has pronounced the gun rights org’s efforts to call the, um, gun owner’s authenticity into question a “misfire.” And their proof? Well, Bloomberg’s boys’ say-so . . .

The NRA released a video suggesting the shotgun-toting star of the Bloomberg ad is an actor. But a spokesman for the mayor’s group said the man is a real-life gun owner. “He’s not an actor. He’s a West Virginia hunter,” the spokesman said.

Well then, why didn’t they say so earlier? In these parts, Mayor Mike’s word is gold, isn’t it?

But as Columbo used to say just before he’d walk out the door…there’s just one more thing that’s bothering us. Whether it’s because MAIG didn’t volunteer the info or the Daily News reporter, James Warren, failed to ask, the article doesn’t identify the stereotypically folksy guy with the shotgun? Other than claiming he’s a just a simple Mountain Stater, that is.

Of course, he may, in fact, be just that. It’s possible he’s just a concerned gun-owner who wants to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals and wackos and genuinely believes MAIG’s universal background checks will accomplish that. Still, we hope they’ll forgive us if we adopt the Reagan doctrine of trust but verify.

To wit: TTAG is offering a $500 reward to anyone who can positively ID this guy before he’s identified anywhere else. Got that? Tell us who he is with some corroborating information before it appears anywhere else on the Intertubes and collect five Benjamins. Just hit the ‘Email Us’ link or call the number at the top of the page. Starting…now!

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  1. He’s a gun owner not an actor? Maybe he’s both or someone who was well-paid to do deliver MAIG’s speal? Another thing, MAIG might be playing chess here anticipating such a reaction to their anti-gun ad. Next MAIG pre-planned step, maybe bring the guy out in public?

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  2. You mean this many weeks after the commercial first aired and the NRA hasn’t done the oppo research to find out who this tool is yet? Did the NRA hire Romney’s old staff? The oppo is running circles around the NRA. Why isn’t Colin spooling off a video every few days or so? How much material does Slow Joe have to hand the NRA on a silver platter before they make use of it? Hey NRA…..I’m not giving you money to sit on your hands.

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  3. There’s a Billy’s Bar & Grill in the town where I grew up. Dive bar, made fabulous wings. I was halfway hoping this happened there. I was disappointed.

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  4. The obvious 2nd question is ………Just HOW LONG EXACTLY has Jethro been a gun owner?

    You have to be cognizant that the enemy isn’t totally stupid. If you were hiring an actor wouldn’t you make sure that the actor ran out before the commercial was filmed and quickly picked up a used piece of crap…TaDa!!! Oh yeah….he’s a gunowner.

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  5. Regardless of who bombed the Boston Marathon and why he/she/they did it, you know that some people will capitalize on the uncertainty and use this catastrophe to paint gun rights activists in a negative light. What is the gun grabbers’ philosophy, “Never let a crisis go to waste.”???

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  6. Better be careful or the antis will get some rogue judge to issue a warrant against you for issuing a “bounty”. Same thing happened to a “white supremist” in Illinois a few years ago when he published information on a jury…

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    • Doxing (documenting another Internet user) may violate EULA and Terms of Service, but I’ve never heard of it being illegal. Getting info on a jury could be construed as jury intimidation.

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  7. no rear plate on the truck, brand new apple bushel basket, brand new tarps and an “old” flannel that shows little signs of actually being worn. def not an actor.

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  8. The gun-grabbing MFM isn’t going to run with this storyline. Ain’t gonna happen.

    The only way to get some free MFM airtime is by going for Slow Joe’s jugular with an ad like this ===> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia4csoQLvGY

    Put an ad like this that mocks their side is the way to show them that you know this is F’ing WAR! The left only does one thing effectively and that is mockery. Time to give them some of their own medicine. Got to get the regulat public to understand that the gun-grabbers are a bunch of morons.

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  9. I just recently purchased a 22lr pistol for plinking and the FFL told me to expect a minimum wait of 60 days. WTF?

    In the meantime, I’ve been trying to find ammo, which apparently is also not available in Maryland! I don’t know why they worry about controlling the weapons so much when we obviously can’t buy the ammo to shoot anyway. Perhaps, someday it’ll all be fixed or at least make better sense…

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  10. Even if he’s right, a 2nd Amendment gun nut wouldn’t do it like this. Wouldn’t they target a government building or an official? This is more likely a foreign terrorist plot with maximum international exposure–a hundred cameras at the finish line of the biggest marathon in the world and hitting innocent people?
    But don’t let a good crisis go to waste. Of course they will spin the gun issue. My first thought (after knowing my son had been two blocks from the blast and was on his way home safely) was, I’m glad it wasn’t a mass shooting after Newton and the neo-gun control debate. But because it was a bomb, the left needed to doublethink it into, “It had to be the guns nuts, trying to prove you can still kill without assault weapons.”
    I pray for the poor victims.
    NWBob in Boston, MA

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    • A “good” conspiracy theorist would probably call it an event to generate needed sympathy to strip us of our rights, similar to those who call 9/11 such an event.

      NOTE: I don’t have evidence to prove or disprove such a theory or theories regardless of their plausibility.

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  11. What can I say? That hit with the blunt impact of say…a starters pistol.
    Refuting a piece of MAIG propaganda? Reduced to arguing over style points? This is how they’re spending our membership fees? Nuanced graphics from a digital arts software program? At least the MAIG ad had a real living person. It doesn’t matter if he was an actor or not, the image was a man and his gun, and so it personalized the message, unlike the NRA, who it seems, could only afford a person to do the anonymous voice-over that one would normally find with a radio spot. This is absolutely the poorest use/waste of a visual medium that one could do. Don’t ever replay your opponents propaganda in your commercial.
    It’s bad enough that we find ourselves on the defensive for the 2A, but this makes us look like we’re only interested in nit-picking the pointless errors of anti-2A agitprop, while ignoring the first principles that are under attack. Sorry folks, the person(s) responsible for this lazy effort should be unemployed. Is this the N.R.A.’s idea for getting the “defend the 2A” message out, to sign this guy/actor to some NRA safety courses? Out of a degree of caution, I won’t be forwarding this pathetic rebuttal ad to my anti-2A friends. They might seriously injure themselves from convulsing with laughter. We, on the other hand, should be extremely angry and out looking for some NRA scalps.

    Did anyone notice that the only person to even mention the 2nd amendment….was the actor?

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  12. Colorado is just the testing ground. Remember, Oblahblah want to have a “civilian force” that is on par with the military. Just like his commie comrads in 3 world countries where the military are the police and vice-versa. Another problem is that the commies want to “fundamentally transform” America into a socialist-communist hybrid state; such as, the Peoples Republic of Commiefornia

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  13. Who doesn’t hang out on their tailgates holding their shotguns whilst your kids play on a swing? I mean once they are all swung out they will be hungry and you must guard the apples from nefarious deer on the prowl.

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  14. Can we wait until we have the f^cking facts before we start blaming anybody???

    this is the same horse shit that happened on 9/11.

    Have a glass of STFU people, wait for the facts to be released, and form your own conclusions.

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  15. I better go get myself wined and dined…because i love getting wined and dined before I get f^cked.

    Another terrorist attack, another f^cking from a government that will use it as a “reason” to take away more rights. Im thinking Steak, Lobster, and a nice Chianti.

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  16. We need someone really good with photoshop should be able to trim the beard to make him more recognizable. The beard makes it hard to identify a person sometimes.

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  17. I just hope it wasn’t some pro 2a wingnut on a personal crusade against the powers that be. And if it is a home grown pro 2a wingnut acting out, I hope they don’t find multiple visits to TTAG on his computer.

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  18. Don’t get between me and the exits when stuff goes down. You will wake up in the ER with a foot print, size 12w on your face. I got over that too proud to run bullsnot about the time my first kid was born.

    Will I defend myself and my loved ones, absolutely. But if I’m solo and it’s some one else’s crap storm. See ya.

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  19. Why am I not surprised that at 1:27 pm someone over at the Daily Kossack tried to
    infer the Boston bombing was the work of a “domestic terrorist” ,drawing specious parallels with the bombings in Atlanta and Oklahoma City. I like how he couched it in what he calls “observations”. Heck, I grew up in the 60’s where the radical Marxists were bombing every that moved and didn’t move. I like how he can call this “observation” where his magic crystal ball tells him that it was the work of a domestic terrorist. Sorry, bombings like this go one in the Middle-East every day. I find it interesting that he can use the two examples of couple of activists against the backdrop of the hundreds radical Islamic Terrorists. tried to
    infer the Boston bombing was the work of a “domestic terrorist” ,drawing specious parallels with the bombings in Atlanta and Oklahoma City. I like how he couched it in what he calls “observations”. Heck, I grew up in the 60’s where the radical Marxists were bombing every that moved and didn’t move. I like how he can call this “observation” where his magic crystal ball tells him that it was the work of a domestic terrorist. Sorry, bombings like this go one in the Middle-East every day. I find it interesting that he can use the two examples of couple of activists against the backdrop of the hundreds radical Islamic Terrorists.

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  20. I’ve just heard one of the fatalities was a 8 year old boy. I’ll expect the “bloody shirt” to waved by Obama and the other anti-gun-ghouls within a few days.

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  21. There’s something else … the afterworld: a world of never ending happiness. Er, uh, those are lyrics to a song. Where was I? Oh yeah, there’s something else. He has a rifled slug barrel on that shotgun. The barrel is obviously short and you can see both the rear and front blade sights. Furthermore, there is an odd white peg sticking out the end of the magazine. (It is parallel to the barrel and points in the same direction as the barrel.) What the heck is that? If that guy really is a gun owner, wouldn’t he probably have a beat up shotgun with a long upland game barrel and a bead site? I don’t know anyone who keeps a shotgun handy for home defense with a rifled slug barrel. So if the guy really owns a shotgun, odds are that it would have a non-slug barrel of some kind. Then again maybe the film crew had absolutely no idea what they were doing … which I would expect of a crew shooting (no pun intended) video for Bloomberg.

    Another observation: that shotgun is in pristine condition. The barrel is deep black (not faded gray). The wood is beautiful and shiny. And there are no scratches anywhere on the wood.

    I do agree with a previous poster that his trigger finger is not on the trigger but on the trigger guard.

    This is curious.

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    • I think that “white peg” is a weld inside the tail-gate jam. Just coincidence of perspective that it looks like it lines up. But I’m open to correction if anyone knows better.

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  22. They’re scared of the US because of our guns?!?!

    They have Godzilla and Mothara over there for God’s sake. My kids will never be killed by a giant dinosaur or moth here in America. I don’t want them going to Japan.

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  23. I demand that these moms be sent back to elementary school to learn the basics of the US government and the Constitution. Clearly they slept through it the first time.

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  24. I demand a plan and a vote for my dead cousins (father & young son) killed by a drunk driver 8am on a Sunday morning. Why haven’t these repeat drunk drivers execute or thrown in prison for LIFE after committing these crimes?? Repeatedly!!!

    Yeah, the actors, mayors, and moms can kiss my arse when it comes to firearms. Until the US does something serious about preventing drunk driving accidents anyone e

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  25. Okay, okay, they win. I’ll write a letter to my son’s principal demanding they close the school’s armory and cancel “bring your assault weapon to school” day.

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  26. I’m no fan of MAIG or gun-grabbing antics, but to track down an “actor” or “tool with no scruples” is moot given the circumstances. We continue to operate in a society that has been boardering double digit unemployment for years. Just to get a paycheck, regardless who writes the check, may have been the “tool’s” motivation. Seems a bit of a red herring, or am I off on my own rabbit trail?

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  27. And this my friends is why the 1895 Marlin Guide Gun in 45/70 is such a blast. 1/5 the price (used – never buy new) and very easy to reload and cast bullets cheaply.

    Glad you used the chrony….kinda put the armchair ballistics experts in your earlier, teaser post in their place. The schmuck saying 500 s&w was sub 30/06 in particular.

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  28. Haven’t parents gotten into trouble for posting pictures of their children posing with guns? Where’s the outrage that poor innocent sally was posed with the EBR?

    And, on a side note, that kid has a rifle in her hands that I cannot own in the constitution free zone of California.

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  29. West Virginia?!! C’mon!! With that dentition?

    Okay, I apologize to all W. Virginians in present company. It was too easy and I couldn’t resist.

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  30. No, only government employees may use gun to stop evil. Everyone else must call a government employee, then be a martyr and fall to evil, then the government employee will show up and write a report about your honorable death. Then, if they feel like it after their lunch break, they might try to stop evil with their government approved guns.

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    • I hear your sarcasm. Sadly, that’s how many people think. I met a government employee who was a self-proclaimed “prepper.” She would ogle all sorts of first aid / Red Cross supplies (overpriced garbage) for emergency survival. When I suggested a gun or taser to help her protect her family and supplies, she was shocked. She hated guns, and hated violence. She didn’t even want a knife for self defense.

      I asked her what she would do if someone were to try to steal her supplies and she had no answer. Go figure.

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  31. We can kill and they can come back and kill more of us true… (it’s called BLOW BACK), so what is the answer , First we need to change our policy toward all nations… ( reading the Book IWO) our policy caused the JAPS to attack us. They understand that they as other nations were not being treated fair…. (BLOWBACK) caused WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and now the Middle east… Like Ron Paul said the Blow back (killing) will stop when and only when we (the West) returns to Fair and equal (free trade) The Golden Rule … (the Bible calls it just weights and measurements) like real money. And paying for what we use …. FAIR TRADE…God let’s this happen because we do not trust the TRUTH… and Evil will not be stopped by God until WE REPENT… ( It means turn around and go the right ways of GOD)

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    • What a pack of lies. America is the universal oppressor of the globe. Yeah, sure.

      Try this on for size: America is the bastion of truth and democracy, and when evil confronts it, evil feels oppressed and fights against us.

      So yes, the Japanese empire (carrying out atrocities China and Korea, holding all non-Japanese as worth nothing more than cattle) felt our “oppression.” Likewise the other tyrants we have fought (Saddam, murdering 30,000 political opponents each month, for instance).

      So if you read histories written by our enemies or by those sympathetic to them, yes, we look like the Great Satan. But the truth is you’ve stood truth on its head. There is an absolute standard for right and wrong and it’s not culturally determined.

      So, so sad we were mean to the Japanese who were slaughtering civilians and trying to expand their empire. So sad we’re now being mean to the Caliphate that slaughters innocents and seeks to dominate the globe.

      If you want to blame those innocents (children!!) who were killed and had their legs blown off for being part of nation deserving of “blowback,” somehow deserving of having their legs blown off, then YOU ARE ONE SICK PUPPY.

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      • I did not say the world is good, and the West was the first people to hear the TRUTH, so we follow the Golden Rule, and God will Bless us, and Make the other peoples will to have the same Blessings of God, The Bible say to TEACH all MEN , give them missions, and help. You can have it only one way… and USA at one point, THE USA as a Christian nation was the place everyone in the World wants to come to …. But Blessing come ONLY from God, and only to the level that we follow his will.. TWO ROADS !

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  32. MA has some of the most restrictive gun regulations in the Nation; not the strictest but up there. The noose will tighten more not loosen.

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    • Come on America, we can do better, Its for Nike. Well at least if feinswine holds up a bomb like Wiley Coyote it might go off(fingers crossed), Randy

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  33. He doesn’t want to lose the war, eh? If he gets his way this will be a Pyrrhic victory.

    All we need to do at the federal level is stand our ground and block all of this ****. I think it’s the states where we’ll win or lose this war.

    Regardless, I’m not going to let this little man in a bowtie sell me out. I regret ever contributing to the SAF.

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  34. “We can tweak it after we pass it,”

    I take Alan may no longer be playing with a full deck or are his true colors finally starting to show?

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  35. I said this once already, I’ll say it again. This should NEVER have come to pass. But for 16 FUCKING TURNCOATS who probably either thought it would be cute to let those Dems show their already well known colors, they let the camel inside the tent. This entire ‘compromise’ should have been thrown in the trash basket. The ONLY thing that should have been done was to allow private sellers online or telephone access to NICS 24/7 and the funding to make it so. THAT IS ALL. Would have taken 3 pages on a legal pad, tops.

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  36. Real glad this review turned into a whine session in the comments section. This guy takes the time to write up a review on a firearm that’s an excellent value and all that he’s hearing is how butthurt some of you are.
    Jeremy, thanks for taking the time. Well written review.

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  37. I fail to understand people who claim The Bill of Rights is subject to interpretation. It’s not written in Latin, Arabic or Russian. It’s plain English. Any adult with the minimum level of English reading comprehension required by the U.S. public school system can easily understand what it says. “Gun control” is illegal, period.

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  38. The fact of the matter is that these people are attempting to compromise away the second amendment and others, the rest of the Constitution and other rights.

    They are traitors and there really isn’t anything else to say about it.

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  39. GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt is squarely in bed with Obama. This action was undoubtedly requested by the regime and, like a good little boot-licker, Immelt happily agreed.

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