Clinton mailing’s gun gaffe
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Sen. Hillary Clinton’s mailing attacking Sen. Barack Obama’s record on guns appears to include a striking visual gaffe: The image of the gun pictured on the face of the mailing is reversed, making it a nonexistent left-handed model of the Mauser 66 rifle.
To make matters worse, a prominent gun dealer said, it’s an expensive German gun with customized features that make it clearly European.
“The gun in the photo does not exist,” said Val Forgett III, president of Navy Arms in Martinsburg, W.Va. Forgett’s company was Mauser’s agent in the United States when the gun was released, and it sold Mauser guns here again in the 1990s. “The bolt is facing to the left side of the receiver, making it a left-handed bolt action rifle, indicating whoever constructed and approved the mailer did not recognize the image has been reversed.”
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“I bet the Clinton folks did a mirror flip on the stock image to make it look more ‘aesthetic,’” wrote one, David Phillips. “What a latte-sipping, Gucci-wearing thing to do.”
The Mauser 66, released in 1966 and no longer manufactured, is a high-end hunting rifle that found military use as a sniper rifle. In Clinton’s mailing, it’s pictured with a double-set trigger, a customization that’s popular in Europe but “almost unheard of in the United States,” Forgett said.
“It’s a $2,200 German import — it’s hardly typical of what the average workingman in Indiana uses,” he said.
It’s probably the same sniper rifle people used when she arrived in Bosnia…
Lesson for you marketing people reading this: careful with the stock footage!
Yes, they have successfully added a picture that instantly turned everyone’s attention from the question.
I mean, yes, it is certainly important that the picture is not good, and yes it certainly has to be debated and chewed out and just please lets forget where Obama really stands on guns.
I would hastily point out that the gun is pointing toward Obama’s head, that certainly worth another two weeks of heated debate on every late night show, and I would like to add that Obama’s head is from a photo where he stands on a stage, not on a gun, so the question is aboslutely an unfounded one, Obama clearly does not stand on guns.
All of this could last until September, without touching the actual question.
Clever, no?
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