EAA Ads!

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I like um. I've heard some squeals against them on other threads but what are we, men or mice? Should we care what feminazis think? I think not!

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EAA's ads are just about a tacky as the guns they make.

Florecent colors.

Give me a break.

Bout as cheesy as the ho's modeling for them!

Yeah, the Witnesses in polymer are okay with their interchangeable barrels. . .

But they ain't Glocks or Sigs!

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Ironic that you bring this topic up. I just finished looking at EAA's website.( was looking at the IZH-27 that GUNS N AMMO keeps bragging about.) I have no problem with the girls in the swimsuits!However,.....My wife is a shooter and I don't think she would like the site!I remember how she threw a fit when I hung up a Colt poster(in MY gunroom)that said "HOW THE WEST WAS RUN " you may have seen it. It had a woman FULLY DRESSED in cowboy getup wearing a Peacemaker with a western town background... GHEEESH!!! It's still up but I've caught He@# more than a few times over it!!Isn't it great to be married? I wish the next Colt poster had Brad Pitt wearing a 1911 or something so she will leave me alone!!!!!! :rolleyes:
CALVIN
" IM THE NRA! "
 
I find EAAs ads as insulting as, say, Mamiya or Canon ads for cameras. The advertisers lack imagination and use skin in lue of tech details or testimonials. I prefer NAA site: tech info, articles, discussion forums. EAA just assumes that my hormones will override my brain nad I do wonder if women find the ads all that compelling.

I have nothing against women with guns as tools (love the pics from Israel showing normal people dressed in summer clothes and Uzis). OTOH, chicks getting off on gun barrels as a tie-in with me buying those same guns (remember to clean off the juices, kids!) don't compel me to go buy the stuff. Same with ads showing JBTs wielding the guns...seeing an ATFuxx with a Colt or what-not doesn't endear their products to me.

And my reaction has not much to do with feminists OR faminazis (at least the resident feminist in my home doesn't think I am with them all the way).

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Oleg "cornered rat" Volk (JPFO,NRA)

http://dd-b.net/RKBA
 
EAA ads are tacky, unimaginative, poorly designed and laid out and highly insulting --not just to women, but to everyone. Add to this the fact that they are exactly the type of advertising that anti-gunners love to see, for they reinforce all the stereotypes about "gun nuts" that the Clintons et. al. love to foster about us.
 
Like other posters I find the ads insulting and inevitable grist for the anti-gun crowd. As responsible gun owners we need to project a positive image and set the discourse. Once we allow antis to set the parameters of the debate we're lost. For this reason I now refrain from saying hicap mags but instead call them standard capacity mags. Likewise I will abstain from buying EAA products until such time as they drop their pornographic ads. It's only a matter of time until the likes of Schumer go on the assault portraying us as sexual degenerates, and you can bet he'll use an EAA as as proof.

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So many pistols, so little money.

[This message has been edited by Tecolote (edited February 07, 2000).]
 
Image schmimgage! I never said I'd buy their guns. The ads show a lot of imagination in MHO!

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o I raised my hand to eye level, like pointing a finger, and fired. Wild Bill Hickok
o If you have to shoot a man, shoot him in the guts... Wild Bill Hickok
o 45 ACP: Give 'em a new navel! BigG
o It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. Justice Robert H. Jackson
o It is error alone that needs government support; truth can stand by itself. Tom Jefferson
o When you attempt to rationalize two inconsistent positions, you risk drowning as your own sewage backs up. BigG
 
Gun ads and most gun rags insult women when they can. They always show the female with the look of horror on her face appearing defenseless and hardly capable of self-defense with a peril around the corner.
The EAA ads are trying to tell us that we will get THAT girl if we shoot a EAA product. That is an OLDE OLDE technique of advertising. We want to associate NICE things with their products etc.
I would like to see more realistic use of females in advertising. We need that public image that shooting is indeed a female SPORT and market. Gun rags and often the industry itself do much to promote female shooting. Pink guns for females etc., is nonsense.
If we won over the females not only around us but were active in recruiting them into shooting in their early years we'd be so much better off.
EAA is like many and will never figure out the value of the females. What a shame.

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They're not as bad as the Camel cigarette ads as for as tacky and insulting. Also, I enjoy the good looking women on the cover of "Blue Press."
 
I agree with Pluspinc.

I also think that this form of advertising, while traditionally effective, only serves to further define the negative stereotype associated with gun owners. We (gun owners)should support the effort to change the popular negative opinions of society at large, not encourage them.

Erik
 
Then don't buy their products.

I didn't expect to see such PC complaining on a firearms forum. The ads are Politically Incorrect. Thank god something still is. The ads are unrefined and tasteless. I don't care for them very much at all. But I'm not going to regurgitate every liberal cach-phrase I can think of to sound mature and enlightened. I've heard many good things about their pistols. They're based on a sound design.
 
PC? Hardly, it's called a reality check. Why is it that whenever anyone wants to end a discussion they always bring up PC? At least try to create a rational discourse to support your position. Women overwhelmingly support more gun control. Do you think ads of this nature will win them over? Those EAA ads are about as original and imaginative as any other advertiser that thinks that T&A will sell their goods. I won't purchase their products, I had no intention of doing so anyhow.

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So many pistols, so little money.
 
If we have to be "PC" to win the 2nd Amendment debate then so be it... It beats the hell out of being "unPC" with tons of gun control.

Sometimes PC = Smart.

(and I hate being PC)

Erik
 
I'm surprised this topic is JUST NOW being brought up. Their advertising is very dated, and I agree that it's embarassing to be associated with this sort of nonsense. EAA's been doing this sort of advertising FOREVER. I'm far from a prude and I'm certainly NOT gay; but come-on, their assuming we're a bunch of horny, gun-loving, Neanderthals (I know they are different time periods). I, too, like NAA's website much more than EAA's.

It automatically devalues their firearms if they need to use SEX to sell their guns IMO. If I wanted to look at bathing suits, naked women, etc., I'd go to some of the other websites.

It's pathetic,
Ben

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Telcote,

I didn't see anemail address,so I will say it here: I love your ability to argue logically and persuasively. Pluspinc, glad to hear your take on this, too.
 
Speaking as a female, I'm more offended by the poor punctuation and grammar in EEA's ads than by the bimbos....no, wait, that's me speaking as an English teacher. Really, though, I don't see why it's a surprise to anyone to see sex being used to sell guns. It's used to sell everything else, from instant coffee to shampoo...why should guns be any different? And, when you've got magazines where the known demographic is almost entirely male, attractive women *will* be used to draw the eye. Yes, it's unimaginative. Most advertising these days is. Ever hear of lowest common denominator? You don't win the masses over with highbrow concept ads!

I'd like to hear what some of the other women on TFL think about this...I hope they find this thread. While we're talking about demographics, how come it seems like all the girls in this place only hang out in the General Discussion Forum? :confused:


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End the discussion? By all means, whine on. Do you seriously think you will win over the antis by making a silly gun ad less offensive? They hate us because we own guns, not because we like or don't like scantily clad females. Appeasement doesn't work. They're not going to give up just because we become a little more PC.

While we're at it, why don't we get some of the liberals' dear friends to do the ads so they'll like us even more? I can see it now...."Mumia Abu-Jamal for Taurus."
 
Just thought I'd share:

It took a good deal of effort and much willingness from my girlfriend to make her into a a pro-RKBA shooter and gun owner.

Sadly, her brush with Neanderthals on Bowers', AR15, TFL convinced here that liberal-bashing chauvinist *******s are not a fit company for her. Doesn't matter than only a few people on TFL were rude and misogynist, those folks were numerous enough to spoil her mood whenever she visited...so we lost an ally.

Quoing her" "Sick of the fake women portrayed as ideal. Real women wear clothes when shooting guns, to avoid brass burns."




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Oleg "cornered rat" Volk (JPFO,NRA)

http://dd-b.net/RKBA
 
Being an olde geezer I recall way way back when Bianchi used hot babes for selling thier products back in the 70's. At the Shot Show I've seen everything from the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders to porn stars pimping gun related products. Sex sells, but not this kid. Show me the value.
 
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