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May 2, 2013 at 3:35 pm
I noticed the makers of the Crickett rifles for children has taken their website off-line, displaying only a stock apache server page. I got the details from the wayback machine, though. (Horselaugh.)
May 2, 2013 at 3:58 pm
I wonder what Connie Stevens thinks about all this.
May 2, 2013 at 6:48 pm
I think the company ‘art’ was trying to horn in on more of the Jiminy Cricket imagery from Pinochio. Which, coincidentally, is even more reprehensible a thing. Lil’ Jiminy couldn’t have shot Pinochio’s or Geppetto’s face off.
May 2, 2013 at 10:26 pm
I heard at my LUG today that their website was giving 404s (at the pre-LUG dinner we got into a long discussion of gunnuttery). Most of those present, even the more conservative ones (and remember where I am–it’s hardly Massachusetts) and the ones who grew up with guns (as I did), could not imagine giving a rifle to a four-year old.
As an aside, when I hear “cricket,” I would much rather think of Hawaiian Eye than of anything Disney.