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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

The Golden Poop Awards: Gun Advertising

Welcome back to another edition of the Golden Poop Awards. The candidates this time are vying for the coveted Golden Poop in the category of Gun Advertising




Brought to you by:
The New Coke, "America's taste just got better" or "It's a Coke that tastes like Pepsi, only it's Coke!"




Under Armor, "stealing glory since 1996"



and Yugo, "everybody needs a Yugo sometime"




The nominees in the category "Best use of a pun in a gun ad" are:

Beretta




Marlin



The Nominees for the worst celebrity endorsement are:

HS Precision Inc 

Hey, I got an idea....let's use a Psychopathic Federal Agent who kills unarmed women and children to sell our product....




PETA

"Champion Pistol Shooter"....yet doesn't know the 3rd Rule of Gun Safety......



The most irresponsible gun ad nominees are:

Harrington & Richardson

A child running around shooting a gun into the air when a crowd is present?? WTF?


Iver Johnson

Umm no, just no


Colt's Patent Fire Arms Co.







In the "WTF were you thinking?" category we have the following nominees:

European American Armory

This needs no comment



 Kel-Tec

 
 POF USA

Pro Tip, never use the name of an infamous, failed government sting operation that ended with the deaths of government agents as a tag line.



 and....European American Armory


 

The nominees for "We don't know our own product" we have the following:

 Aimpoint

A company that sells products to help you shoot straight...has their shit backwards...



 Heckler & Koch

We would hope that their gun QC program is better than their advertisement QC program



Odejewscy Shooting Range in Poland

This is beyond ignorant....


Colt's Patent Fire Arms Co.

Maybe someone should have told him the sight was built into the back of the handle.....Was this the first instance of "Spray & Pray"?



For the Best use of a meat product in a gun ad, we have the following nominees:

Smith & Wesson 




Marlin




In the Best use of a Porn Stash, the contenders are:

 Universal Firearms


 
Smith & Wesson




In the Best use of Sex to sell a gun category, the nominees are:


Winchester

OK so...one question: Why would a cowboy be interested in a woman with the body of a 13 year old boy? Also your nipple is showing....in their defense, it was the 70's....a different time...

European American Armory

The ads produced by these guys are almost as bad as their guns.... that's a joke, but then again so is this ad...




Glock

I don't really have a comment on this one.....




Winchester

Here we are again, Cowgirls back in the day dressed like men for a couple of reasons, one to be taken seriously and two to prevent unwanted sexual advances....Also cowgirls would keep the boobs strapped down, the trail can be hard on the ta tas





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