Gun Nuts is pleased to offer a 2010 poster calendar in tandem with our friends at SniperBabes.Com. The calendar is $10, and measures 12 inches tall by 18 inches wide. This is the perfect calender to hang over your reloading bench for the guys out there. Ashley and Francine, the two ladies on the calendar will also be appearing on Tuesday night’s episode of Gun Nuts Radio! Click the image below to get yours!
Yeah, um, no. Not supporting a calendar that captions photos with descriptions of “Mossburg”s.
Gun Owners have enough PR problems. No reason to play into stereotypes.
Perhaps I’ll buy a calendar with an “Oozie” on it. *sigh*
I second Shootin’ Buddy’s comment on stereotypes – and spelling errors that indicate a clear lack of remotely serious knowledge of guns or spell checkers.
I’ll also take issue with their attack on C&E by claiming that women aren’t welcome there. That’s utter bullshit since I’m a woman and I’ve been to several of their shows. In fact, their shows are very female-friendly. Even my non-gun owning mom enjoys the environment at their shows. However, in their attack on the promoter, SniperBabes admits that their women were going up to distract dealers during sales hours. I haven’t searched online for C&E’s side of things, but by SniperBabe’s own description, I would assume that their presence was disruptive of sales. If they were bugging multiple vendors during show hours, it would be perfectly reasonable for C&E to kick them out for soliciting without purchasing a table.
But their little fight aside, they are flat out lying about C&E discriminating against women. For a site that embraces the worst stereotypes of women and guns to attack a successful show that does more to create a friendly environment for women while recruiting them into the movement (every C&E show I’ve been to has NRA tables & a VCDL table) and sports (their shows have just about everything a female shooter could want – great diversity of products), it’s really despicable.
I happen to be a vendor at many shows throughout the state of Ohio. I was at the show where Mr. Elliot raised the fuss about the Sniper Babes. His actions were truelly dispicable as a promoter and as a man in general. As I undertand it he had approved the Sniper Babes for a table weeks before the show. Only a few days before the show did he tell them he had changed his mind and he didn’t want to give them a booth. They were at the show in jeans and t-shirts talking to vendors and show patrons. They were not distracting anyone or creating any negative stigma being there. To the contrary they were promoting shooting sports and trying to find more events to help out at.
Mr. Elliot is as big an anti woman descriminator as I have ever seen. His actions were completely wrong and unwarranted. I know of at least 6 vendors who will no longer do C&E shows because of Mr Elliot and his archiac mentality. I would never do another one of his shows based on his treatment of these ladies and his vendors in general.
I see the Sniper Babes at a wide range of gun shows and events. They are fun, professional and a true pleasure to be around. The kids love them! I see that a lot of them are business professionals and students. That’s certainly a stereotype that should be created.
If you think about the LIBERAL LEFT a little bit, they rely on the female 18-55 year old vote. Perhaps some gun loving people like the Sniper Babes could help sway this group of voters. Frankly, any group of ladies who wants to stand up and defend our gun rights is all right by me. The fight is not between us as gun owners its against those who want to take them away from us. Isn’t that all that really matters in the end?
I will gladly support the Sniper Babes and Gun Nuts by buying a Calendar.
If I ever get a gas station to hang this in, I’ll buy one.
Um, no thanks. In every picture, these “babes” have their fingers on the trigger.
They are either fakers or ridiculously unsafe shooters. Neither, to my mind, is very attractive.
Andrew, you obviously didn’t bother to see “every” picture, as there are quite a few where the women do not have their fingers in the trigger guard. Additionally, you missed this page where explain the thought process behind the fingers on triggers.
You’re right. It’s maybe only 50 or 60% of the pictures where the gun is held in a firing grip.
I did see the “explanation.” If they made one or two posters with fingers on the trigger, primarily for use in an educational setting, I’d believe it, but when a majority of their commercially available images show the same, single safety violation? Nah. That’s ignorance, carelessness or unconcern, explained away after the fact.
The “education” that these posters and calendars are likely to provide is the same “education” that TV and movies have provided to every new shooter, who is convinced that he already knows how to hold the gun, with his finger on the trigger.
I would be embarrassed to have my name or brand associated with “pro-gun” images depicting safety violations. If the calendars haven’t printed or shipped yet, I’d seriously consider selecting only images that do not display the handling errors.
Andrew, as a matter of fact, the images selected for the Gun Nuts calendar were specifically picked to insure that no one had their finger on the trigger. While other images owned by SniperBabes may depict that, the two images featured in the Gun Nuts branded calendar avoid any violations of the 4 Rules.
I listened to last night’s podcast today and I have to agree with Labrat, Shootin’ Buddy and the others that the decision to partner with sniperbabes.com is disappointing. The last thing that the shooting sports need is to reinforce the stereotype that we are a gang of butt-scratchin’ rednecks who think that the only serious role for females in our sport is as eye-candy for gas-station style calendars.
There may be a time and place for cheesecake and guns, but you and Breda have become ambassadors for our hobby and the fight for our rights. When you hawk calendars that trivialize both females and guns you trivialize yourselves and reduce your own credibility on these issues.
On a final note, I am writing this, not out of anger, but because I have become a fan of the blogs and the podcast and I was disappointed that you made the decision to partner with sniperbabes.com.
Wade, thanks for your honest feedback. The goal of the calendar was to produce an item with large mass market appeal that would allow us to continue to provide the kind of quality programming that you’ve come to expect from Gun Nuts. Obviously, some people are not going to like the calendar, however I would ask those people to bear in mind that the end goal, regardless of methods used is to bring more people to the sports.
Again, thanks for listening, and make sure you check out next week’s show, “12 Days of Gun Nuts Christmas”.
Well lets face it, the subjext is the women, if unsafe posters were never published, we would never have the Ridgid Tool calendars, Edelbrock calenders or the old Isky cam shaft catalogs, sometimes you just gotta deal
Am I the only one who thought it was creepy that a middle aged guy was surfing MySpace for chicks to take pictures of?