Oh NRA No! Do you *not* listen to the internets? One of the displays they had up highlighted a new product for sportsmen. It's a duck decoy that folds flat for easy transport. It's an ingenious idea, and the decoys looked great. It's the name that needs some work:
Elmer?
Yes. They call it the NRA FUD. Guys, guys, guys. This is a Fudd:
Different Fudd
The term "Fudd" is often used to describe those that favor only certain types of gun rights - i.e., those that allow shotguns and scoped bolt action rifles. Common phrases of the Fudd are "No one needs an X round magazine" (where X = some number greater than 3) or "You can't hunt with an AR-15" or "No one needs a handgun, those are only made for killing". Basically, they support the gun rights that they enjoy and condemn the rest.
Just thought it was an interesting juxtaposition...
That is all.
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Isn't FUD an old microsoft marketing principle? Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt.
I was thinking that too, anon -- almost like they grabbed nrafud.com and then came up with a product to justify it :). They certainly have the SEO down pat; if you were looking to find web sites where people accused the NRA of using FUD tactics, you'd have trouble finding any articles.
For what it's worth, it isn't a new product or site, been out a few years according to my incredibly detailed 5 second research.
(The fact that it's a product for hunters, that there's the notion of Fudds in gun culture, that there's even a fudstore, just makes me chuckle in about 4 different ways....)
I just rolled my eyes when I saw that display. Wish I had taken a picture of it.
Oh god, I thought those were a joke when I saw them....
FUD as a marketing term of art predates Microsoft; goes back at least to the big iron era of the Itty-Bitty Machines
I saw that on the first day. I just had to shake my head. Alex, I'll take "Tone Deaf" for 1000, please.
When i saw it, I figured a GOA mole within NRA staff was having a joke at the expense of the Fudds.
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